LOCATION

Onsite work from our Atlanta, GA or Jacksonville, FL office is required with flexibility to work remote up to 2 days per week.

SUMMARY

Responsible for developing, implementing and ongoing governance of Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) organizations Program Governance and Quality Assurance functions. This includes but not limited to:

• Standard repeatable process to generate risk-based reporting and analytics.
• Maintain quality assurance and ensure compliance with TPRM program policy and standards.
• Provide guidance, assistance in on-going training and awareness activities across the enterprise.
• Support and assist with all internal and external audit/exam related inquiries.
• Develop and maintain interdepartmental relationships with business partners.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support internal stakeholders prior to onboarding and throughout the third-party life cycle.
• Conduct foundational assessments of new third parties prior to engaging in a contractual relationship.
• Assists and analyzes third party risk, and evaluates third party service providers.
• Assists in oversight, reporting, and annual evaluations.
• Determines infrastructure improvements to drive reductions in run rate savings without compromising business strategy.
• Gains understanding of complex supplier pricing models, develop cost analysis, scorecards, and division vendor reports, and helps conduct quarterly business reviews.
• Procures services and materials as directed by and approved through internal channels and policy.
• Assists in the sourcing and operational negotiations and third-party risk reviews as needed.
• Supports contract development, third party risk reviews, and approval process and provides contract information as needed.
• Develops and applies standardized and rigorous approach to financial analysis.
• Develops, implements, monitors, and reports performance measures that demonstrate value and ensure vendor performance.
• Conducts reviews which measure end-user satisfaction, spend and usage trends (historical and projected), prices, quality and service levels, savings, supplier performance metrics, next-generation improvement opportunities, etc.
• Participates in stakeholder interviews to gather information regarding current practices, processes, and behaviors.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Maintain awareness of emerging trends for services provided by various third parties.
• Support ongoing training awareness of industry trends and other related duties.
• May require occasional domestic travel as needed.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related discipline; or the equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience.
• Requires 8+ years of relevant work experience OR at least 5 years in a third-party risk, operational risk, or vendor risk role with experience in offshore vendor management and site assessments and successful completion of tasks in the promotional matrix. Relevant certifications may also be credited as relevant work experience.
• Previous working knowledge of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, such as but limited to
  • SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FDIC (Bonds Market)
  • Bank Of England (BOE)
  • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
  • European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Certification such as, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CTPRP etc.
• Experience leading a team.
• Experience with the following tools: ServiceNow, ProcessUnity, Oracle, UpGuard, Supplier.IO
• Business Acumen in Capital Markets, Exchanges, Clearing Houses, and/or Corporate Fixed Income.
• Requires extensive knowledge of risk methodologies and techniques.
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to persuade, negotiate and influence others to get buy-in and support.
• Knowledge of ICE business environment and the ability to evaluate risk implications inherent in new product and market development.
• Experience of working with a diverse range of data sources/streams and managing these effectively.
• Experience identifying due diligence requirements.
• Experience planning vendor engagements and overseeing and monitoring activities.
• Experience reporting vendor status.
• Experience with strategic sourcing activities.
• Excellent analytical, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to develop relationships with business units, especially as it relates to operations and technology.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels within Black Knight or outside the organization (executives, regulators, clients, etc.).
• Ability to provide information to a wide variety of audiences regardless of topic and effectively deal with issues that are confidential and sensitive in nature.

ICE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training, specialty, experience, and work location. The base salary (exempt) or hourly rate (non-exempt) is just one component of the total rewards package offered to our employees, including potential bonus or commission eligibility, insurance (medical/dental/vision/life/disability), matching 401(k) plan and matching employee stock purchase plan

ICE is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, and protected veteran or military family status. Our employees' diversity is our strength, and when we embrace our differences, it makes us better and brighter. ICEs commitment to inclusion is at the core of who we are, and motivates us in how we do business each and every day.