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Operational Risk Analyst II

Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
1475 Peachtree Street Northeast (Show on map)
Mar 12, 2025

Compensation Grade:

09

BASIC PURPOSE:

Assists in the planning, development, and implementation, and ongoing execution of programs under the Bank's enterprise risk management function including risk analysis, risk assessment processes, development and implementation of risk measurement and monitoring tools, ongoing monitoring of key risk metrics and measures, inventories, and reporting obligations.
Assists with the governance and oversight of enterprise-wide programs managed by the Enterprise Risk Management area. The role will interact extensively with business units, and management throughout the Bank. Position evaluates the adequacy of risks and controls within the Bank's End User Computing Program and Operational Risk Program.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Facilitates ongoing efforts to develop work plans and approaches that identify, measure, and assess bank-wide risk exposure and related mitigating controls. Also ensures that internal controls are complete, accurate, and timely. Summarizes results and makes recommendations based upon analysis performed.

  • Maintains all aspects of the Bank's End User Computing program. This includes facilitating updates to documentation, scoping of EUC testing, validations, and compiling and tracking testing results.

  • Develops an understanding of risk and its potential effects on the Bank, maintains a working knowledge of the Bank's policies, and understands the organizational structure of the Bank. Maintains awareness of the issues and concerns of outside regulatory bodies and their effect on the business as well as other external factors that could increase the risks facing the Bank.

  • Participates in the continuing enhancement of the Bank's risk assessment framework, providing qualitative and quantitative insight where needed.

  • Assists in the quarterly and annual bank-wide risk assessments to evaluate the Bank's ability to meet its strategic goals within established risk, regulatory, and internal policy parameters. Primary emphasis on business risk, and operations risk. Includes the identification, assessment, and reporting on current and emerging enterprise risks facing the Bank into an enterprise-wide view of risk.

  • Prepare detailed and accurate work papers that use sufficient evidence to document and support the results of control assurance activities. Prepare detailed reports on risk assessments, control evaluations, and mitigation strategies for management.

  • Assists with the governance and oversight of department policies and procedures.

  • Assists with validations and ensuring that ERM-owned inventories are maintained and current.

  • Performs other risk initiatives, special projects, and other related duties as assigned by the Director of Enterprise Risk Management.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

Working knowledge of risk management concepts and practices, risk assessments, and regulatory and compliance concepts prevalent in banking is preferred.

Strong analytical, interpersonal, persuasion and demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.

Critical thinking and the ability to complete assigned projects with minimal supervision.

Working knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles is preferred.

Demonstrated knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley 302 and 404 requirements and related control frameworks and Sarbanes-Oxley 404 scoping analysis and fraud risk assessments is preferred.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, risk management or related field.

  • Two plus years of compliance risk management experience or internal audit experience.

  • Two plus years of design and operating testing experience, and familiarity with testing methodologies.

  • Two plus years of experience working with GRC platforms desirable.

WORK LOCATION: Onsite with an opportunity to work remote partially. This position may not be filled in California, either in-person or remotely.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

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