Job Description
Role: IT Risk Management Specialist
Location: Abu Dhabi
Role Purpose:
- Perform risk & control assessments for all ITD units
- Measure and report result of key risk indicators
- Liaise with all ITD units and participate in reviews that pertain to compliance with Bank and Regulatory IT controls and guidelines
- Assess the risks identified during new enhancements in the existing and new IT systems and provide complete report to senior management.
- Anticipate/identify, communicate/escalate and recommend resolution of technology risk management initiative status and issues
Key Accountabilities of the role:
- Support the risk identification and management process across ITD
- Keep management up to date on the results of the risk assessment and submit the results using the designated tool
- Examine systems and procedures to identify potential adverse events, log issues and actions, update risk and controls.
- Identify Key Risk Indicators for the ITD activities and Units and enhance them according to the trends and emerging threats
- Perform ITD RCSAs to ensure that controls are adequate to mitigate the risk and updated to protect sensitive information systems
- Maintain correlation and proper mapping of issues, actions, KRIs, incidents, risk acceptances to risks and controls identified for ITD
Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge, Technical Competencies Required for this role:
- Deep understanding of risk management and risk management policy and guidance, technology risk management preferred.
- Understanding of emerging technologies
- Understanding of Operational Risk Management
Previous experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree (Technology/computers) Preferred
- Knowledge in Banking Domain along with Technical if available.
- Knowledge in incident Management and Reporting if available.
- Graduate with knowledge in information systems risk management
- Domain Knowledge of IT Governance, IT Risk Management, Information Security, Networking, Operations security, Security Management practice, Cryptography
