Job Purpose
Support company in achieving its strategic objectives, by providing assurance over the key controls and mitigating activities that the organization relies on to manage risk. The Associate Risk Analyst will sit within the 2nd line of defense and be responsible for assisting with the planning, execution, and reporting on a wide variety of principal risks. This role will be ideal for someone with 1 or 2 years of experience in either Risk, Audit, SOX, or a similar business function.

Key Accountabilities
Schedule meetings with 1st line and participate in the walkthroughs with stakeholders and assist with documenting the end to end process in narrative format.
Support the Risk Manager and other team members with 2nd line control testing, document results and complete workpapers in the standard guidance provided by Chief Risk Office.
Assist 1st line in completing Control Self-Assessment Process within the GRC tool Archer.
Support Risk Manager and other team members in updating Power Point slides and Excel spreadsheets used for meeting materials and tracking status of control testing.
Complete training on risk management techniques and internal control design.
Complete other Risk or administrative tasks at the direction of the Risk Manager.
Attend all training for the Archer GRC tool as well Power BI to ensure 1st and 2nd line is supported in completing tasks within these tools.
Create Standard Operating Procedures to support the risk functions.
Perform updates to Excel spreadsheets to track completion of monthly targets.

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Engineering, or relevant field.
The Associate Risk Analysts should bring basic exposure to business process such as internal or external audit risk, SOX, or other similar business functions
Must be able to contribute to the risk plan and complete the risk and control testing requirements within the required time frames.
Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
Basic risk management, governance acumen understands basic risk assessment techniques, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd lines of defense frameworks.
Some previous experience with controls testing preferred.
Willing to be trained in business governance and control testing techniques.
Basic planning and or project management skills.
1 or 2 years of relevant work experience, including Risk Management, Internal or External Audit, SOX with a Big 4 or Medium-sized consultancy or other similar business function within a large organization (preferably Energy/Utilities).
Basic understanding of data analytics (e.g. ACL) and visualization tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) GRC Archer a plus.
Professional certification or equivalent in relevant area (e.g. Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Public Accountant) or working towards qualification would be a plus.