About the Job:

 As an IT Risk Operations Senior Analyst, you lead the identification, assessment, and optimization of information security risks and controls. You lead enterprise cyber maturity and IT risk assessments, serving as a trusted advisor on complex and ambiguous risk matters. As a subject matter expert for the IT Risk team, you track and manage all discovered risks and follow up on treatment plans.  You have excellent presentation and communication skills and are skilled at ServiceNow as a GRC tool.  You are committed to excellence, accuracy, and discretion in all aspects of your work.

What You’ll Do:

• Execute complex GRC initiatives and assessments to ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations
• Conduct IT risk and compliance assessments and define effective risk mitigation strategies
• Partner with stakeholders to resolve GRC issues and strengthen governance and risk management practices
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members to support their professional development

What You’ll Bring to the Role:

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• 6–8 years of experience in information systems or systems audit with strong knowledge of technologies and processes
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing IT general controls
• Proven leadership and mentoring capabilities
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex and ambiguous situations
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Excellent relationship management, influence, and communication skills, with sound judgment and diplomacy

Skills You Have:

• Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences
• Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals
• Negotiation & Managing Objection: Compromises in a cooperative effort to reach mutually satisfactory conclusions and results; navigates challenging conversations
• Process Improvement: Assesses the current processes and impact to analyze, design, and manage potential improvement areas for more efficient, effective workflow
• Risk Assessment & Identification: Leverages industry knowledge to determine and seek hazards that could potentially prevent the program, enterprise, or investment from achieving their objectives; designs systematic processes of identifying severity of hazards and evaluating the scale and impacts of any associated risk on the business
• Risk Consulting: Identifies, understands, and facilitates discussions/processes and provides recommendations/resources to manage risk in collaboration with business and process owners

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Compensation Range:

Pay Range - Start:

$98,910.00

Pay Range - End:

$183,690.00

Geographic Specific Pay Structure:

Structure 110:

$94,640.00 USD - $175,760.00 USD

Structure 115:

$98,910.00 USD - $183,690.00 USD

We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.

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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.