Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

The Senior Manager, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) - Third Party Risk Management, is responsible for continually monitoring, evaluating, and managing risk associated with third party vendors, partners, and customers. 

In this role, you will support an enterprise-wide risk program ensuring compliance with all applicable domestic and international regulations. You will be responsible for evaluating third parties across a range of risk domains. You will leverage technology solutions to support due diligence initiatives, continuous monitoring efforts and ensure efficient and effective mitigation of any identified risks. 

This role will work to ensure that Verizon is well positioned to make informed data and risk based decisions when it comes to the selection of a vendor or strategic partner. In addition, this role will unlock efficiencies in the third-party risk management lifecycle by designing new end-to-end assessment workflows and operating models and drive increased visibility to threat vectors.

As a subject matter expert, you will take a key role in assessing third-party risk impacts on the company, identifying opportunities to enhance Verizon’s overall controls environment, and managing risk as necessary. You will develop reporting and analytics, drive process improvements, and provide transparent reporting to executive management.

• Developing business intelligence rules and automated workflows to continuously monitor the risks associated with third parties.

• Leveraging technology solutions to ensure that all third party regulatory requirements are appropriately addressed throughout the third party engagement lifecycle.

• Developing dashboard reporting and scorecards related to key risk indicators (KRIs) associated with third parties.

• Coordinating with internal and external stakeholders in triaging any significant risks that are identified.

• Creating and program managing an executive level vendor risk governance program, providing senior leadership summaries of third party risk profiles.

• Coordinating with internal and external risk experts and stakeholders to ensure that Verizon has a consistent and quantifiable risk management methodology. 

• Supporting complete, accurate, and timely vendor risk analysis through data analytics.  

• Project managing both technical and operational process enhancements of the vendor risk management lifecycle. 

• Developing, implementing, and maintaining risk and control matrices, policies, and standard operating procedures for vendor risk analysis.

• Working with key stakeholders throughout the enterprise to design, document, and implement  business process and technology controls.

• Overseeing the identification of financial, regulatory, operational, security, and reputational risks associated with third-party vendors and coordinating the mitigation of those identified risks. 

• Liaising with partners in business units and other corporate functions to provide insights into control issues and risk reduction strategies.

• Developing strategic roadmaps, checklists, and assessments for compliance readiness.

• Evaluating digital tools, platforms, and resources to drive process efficiencies throughout the compliance lifecycle.

What we’re looking for...

You’re a highly effective communicator and agile project manager. You are comfortable with new technology and developing new processes and programs to meet regulatory objectives and reduce risk. You are able to drive a cross-functional team to key decisions in an evolving landscape. You understand that a rigorous control environment can help an organization meet its objectives in operational effectiveness and efficiency and reduce risk.

You’ll need to have:

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or Information Security 

• Six or more years’ of relevant work experience in Anti-Money Laundering / Anti-Fraud Investigations, Compliance, Audit, Risk Management, or Operational Assurance

• Experience in compliance, financial crimes (anti-money laundering / know your customer), sanctions screening, business controls, audit or finance

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong technical knowledge in reporting, dashboard development, and program governance 

• Effective organizational, project management, and interpersonal skills

Even better if you have:

• A professional certification (CPA, CISA, CMA, CIA, CIPP, CISSP) 

• Experience with LexisNexis, Dow Jones, FinScan, Comply Advantage, or other sanctions screening solutions

• Experience with database management or analytics tools such as Knime, Python, or Looker

• Knowledge and experience with accounting, control standards, and regulatory compliance requirements (i.e. SOX, GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, CPNI, etc.) 

• Knowledge of control risk and control frameworks (i.e. NIST, COSO, ISO, etc.) 

• Experience formulating, affecting, interpreting, and implementing policies and processes 

• Demonstrated organizational, leadership and reporting skills 

• Ability to design and develop a strong control environment to mitigate risk 

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $94,000.00 - $180,000.00.

Job Tags

Full time, Temporary work, Part time, Work experience placement, Work at office, Work from home, Shift work,

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