Associate, Third Party Assurance

Associate, Third Party Assurance

Country: United States of America

It Starts Here:

Santander is a global leader and innovator in the financial services industry and is evolving from a high-impact brand into a technology-driven organization. Our people are at the heart of this journey and together, we are driving a customer-centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what’s possible.  This is more than a strategic shift.  It’s a chance for driven professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference.

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The Difference You Make:

As an Associate, Third Party Assurance, you will support FLOD Third Party Risk Management in working with business units to ensure third-parties are managed in accordance with the TPRM program. This function performs due diligence activities including, but not limited to data governance, cyber security, and operational risk.

As a member of the team, the Associate, Third Party Assurance implements various risk management processes and strategies for supporting initiatives, capturing and implementing recommendations from audits and other internal/compliance and external/regulatory assessment projects, and employing risk.

• Applies innovative quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques to detect problems and improve reporting/MIS capabilities.
• Delivers industry best practices, tools, guidance, and training to increase analytical capabilities and throughput.
• Partners with Business Lines to recommend and vet new products initiatives, origination strategies, pre-approval and pre-qualification campaigns, underwriting techniques, peer group comparisons, and process optimization.
• Implements and validates various risk segmentation strategies using complex data.
• Provides direct support, participation, and oversight for developing, managing, and executing the credit risk strategy, which specifically includes functions such as understanding and leveraging credit-risk analytics to improve portfolio performance.
• Selects and optimizes risk management processes and strategies for various Small Business initiatives, capturing and implementing recommendations from audits and other internal/compliance and external/regulatory assessment projects, and employing risk.
• Provide monitoring and assessment of enterprise-wide adherence to vendor management policy requirements
• Collaborate with colleagues and work towards streamlining processes
• Consistently deliver on commitments, deadlines and objectives while remaining in scope and leveraging appropriate tools, methods, frameworks, and professional standards
• Demonstrate the ability to appropriately influence business decisions, and the professional judgment for selecting the appropriate methods and techniques to do so
• Conduct third party risk assessments, applying established criteria
• Maintain thorough understanding of all business requirements to support requirements analysis
• Analyze and develop requirements for enhancements to application functionality
• Works will other Technical Security personnel to review and interpret vendor due diligence materials, including audit reports and security risk assessment questionnaires
• Involve appropriate subject matter expertise as required to resolve vulnerabilities
• Works with the Corporate Vulnerability Management team to conduct vulnerability assessments on remote hosted applications as needed

What You Bring:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience: Business, Finance, or equivalent degree. - Required.

• 5+ Years Risk Management - Required.

• Advanced understanding of key inherent risk and risk management control practices.
• Strong risk management principles, methodologies and tools, governance principles and activity preferably in a financial services technology environment.
• Knowledge of workflow/processes and risks/controls, including: origination, underwriting, servicing, and collections/workout.
• Ability to independently operate in a complex, matrixed environment; adept at delivering and maintaining productive working relationships across business, functions, geographies and lines of defense.
• Ability to handle conflict resolution with other groups to ensure appropriate accounting guidance is followed.
• Ability to adjust to new