Principal Risk Analyst

🕒 July 27

🌾 Iowa, North Carolina, +1 more states – Remote

🌾 Iowa – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote

💵 $97.7k - $130.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🎲 Risk

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First American

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1889

🏠 Real Estate

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

Real Estate • Finance • Enterprise

First American is a historical company that has been operating since 1889, evolving into a $9 billion organization with over 20,000 employees and more than 700 offices worldwide. The company provides a range of products and services that assist homebuyers, sellers, businesses, and investors in the real estate market. With a strong focus on employee engagement and culture, First American emphasizes innovation, technology, and community involvement, driving transformation within the real estate industry.

📋 Description

• Reviews, analyzes, and reports on risk, quality, service, and controls to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness, mitigate risk and remediate operational and regulatory vulnerabilities. • Conducts risk assessments to ensure compliance with federal and state regulatory requirements, industry standards, and operating procedures. • Maintains and updates procedural manuals, job aides and tools. • Develops standard risk assessment scopes and conducts re-scoping of established reviews to ensure validity. • Performs analyses to determine the root cause of process gaps. • Monitors corrective action target dates to ensure prompt remediation and control implementation to comply with regulatory requirements. • Leads the efforts of Risk Management programs and managing department processes. • Identifies and addresses future concepts and implements best practices. • Analyzes, defines and documents detailed process workflows through user interviews, facilitated workshops and subject matter expert engagement. • Develops resolution to critical issues and complex design matters. • Assists in building and managing the tool and workflow of computer operating systems such as the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) vendor software. • Manages and tracks risks such as Incident Management, Operational Risk, Business Disruption, Information Security, Data Protection, Compliance Risk and Event Management. • Collaborates with management and personnel to optimize risk assessment and scope development. • Consolidates results of assessments and reports to management. • Creates Risk scorecards and other metrics. • Proactively engages stakeholders to mitigate risk. • Offers risk mitigation, remediation, and implements process improvement solutions to stakeholders and management. • Sets and manages tight deadlines for key deliverables. • Provides proactive input into the continual improvement of processes and solutions. • Delivers fact-based findings and recommendations. • Escalates issues identified during review and analysis to stakeholders. • Establishes a network of subject matter experts that provide the detail and context for existing processes, and/or stakeholders that may influence others to help support or drive improvements and to mitigate risks.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong knowledge of operational and regulatory risk controls, concepts and practices • Experience in the mortgage origination and servicing industry and a familiarity with concepts and terminology • Proven ability to plan, organize and effectively execute risk mitigation and process improvement initiatives • Strong knowledge and experience in building workflows, process maps, and business requirement documents • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships at the senior management level across functional groups and business units • Presentation and facilitation skills • Excellent client service skills • Excellent organizational, analytical and documentation skills • Attention to detail • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and teamwork skills • Self-motivated; self-starter • Experience managing projects with complex inter-dependencies, focusing on both long-range projects and immediate tasks • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • 401k • PTO/paid sick leave • Employee stock purchase plan