Senior Risk and Compliance Analyst

Full Time

Information Technology

Hungary

Aegon is an international financial service holding company headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands. Our ambition is to build leading businesses that offer their customers investment, protection, and retirement solutions. Our purpose is to help people live their best lives, which goal runs through all of our activities. The company has multiple locations across the globe, with core markets in the UK and the US, partnerships in Spain & Portugal, Brazil, and China and an Asset Management organization with locations in UK, US, NL and Hungary. In the Netherlands, Aegon generates value via a strategic shareholding in a market leading insurance and pensions company.

Aegon Global Business Solutions Center is supporting these businesses with IT, Finance, Risk, Model Validation, Actuarial, Audit and Asset management services with a growing team of approx. 300 people, based in Budapest, Hungary.

Global Technology Services (GTS) is Aegon's global IT partner that provides infrastructure services, information security and global/corporate application support for Aegon's businesses around the world.

The Internal Controls and Compliance (ICC) team provides governance, risk management, internal controls, and compliance services to GTS to support and enable GTS leadership in achieving strategic objectives.

This position conducts independent comprehensive assessments of the management, operational, and technical controls and control enhancements employed within or inherited by an information technology (IT) system to determine the overall effectiveness of the controls. To ensure that control objectives are being met and we can provide reasonable level of assurance to all key stakeholders.

This position is focused on global delivery providing centralized services and supporting global program build-out.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review implementation of control requirements and appropriate information technology (IT) policies and procedures that are consistent with the organization's mission and goals.
• Identify and report on the determination of gaps in design or controls exist and providing recommendations for remediation and implementation of mitigating controls.
• Identify control requirements specific to an information technology (IT) system in all phases of the system life cycle.
• Collaborate with first line in development of action plans to assess the adequacy of action taken by management to remediate open items
• Drive compliance/audit activities as assigned in relation to Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), IT Control Framework, Service Operation Control audits, manage internal/external audit engagements and third-party business reviews
• Support control assessments first time and ongoing (Process, Application, and Infrastructure)
• Participate in the policy standards implementation strategies to ensure procedures and guidelines comply with applicable control policy.
• Drive and support in the development and implementation of goals, policies, priorities, procedures relating to internal controls
• Drive audit findings and recommendations to ensure that appropriate mitigation actions are taken.
• Support necessary compliance activities (e.g., ensure that system security configuration guidelines are followed, compliance monitoring occurs).
• Assess, define, and execute on control optimization
• Support the verification that all acquisitions, procurements, and outsourcing efforts address control requirements consistent with organization goals and objectives
• Support the key stakeholders throughout Aegon on IT control framework and control consultant
• Engage and collaborate with second line to demonstrate the design and operating effectiveness of controls
• Support Cloud AWS (Amazon Web Service), Microsoft Azure control implementation, monitoring, and reporting.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent knowledge in risk management and controls.
• 5-7 plus years of experience working with internal controls, audit, or risk management within the financial services industry.
• Excellent communication skills in writing and communication information in a clear, concise manner.
• Proven analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• CISA, CISSP, CISM, or CIA recommended.
• Ability to understand technology, management, and leadership issues related to organization processes and problem solving.
• Knowledge of Audit Assurance Framework requirements.
• Financial services experience
• Experience with GRC solutions
• Knowledge of public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Big 4 public accounting experience working with controls within the Sarbanes Oxley environment.
• Knowledge of current industry methods for evaluating, implementing, and disseminating information technology (IT) assessment, monitoring, detection, and remediation tools and procedures utilizing standards-based concepts and capabilities.
• Skill in creating policies that reflect control requirements.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health package
• Brand new office at an excellent location
• Hybrid working
• Opportunities for growth and advancement
• A highly people centric, positive and supportive work environment

Working Conditions

• Global support may require some non-traditional hours for meetings
• Extra hours work needed during peak audit periods

AGT Hungary IT Services LLC (HUN entity)

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