Operational Risk Principal Director

You are:
A top performer when it comes to minimizing enterprise risk and keeping clients' business processes, employees, systems/data, and customers safe. Nothing gets by you, and now you're leading your clients and your team into the future, fending off internal and external threats and ushering in an era of safer, more resilient business operations for everyone.

The work:

• Assess and manage risks (non-financial and financial) and controls for top-tier financial services organizations globally
• Lead the design and development of process-based solutions or BPM (business process management) capabilities (i.e., process modeling, data mining, improvement/automation)
• Lead, manage, and implement resiliency strategies, frameworks, and capabilities to help clients prepare, adapt, responds, recover, and learn from disruption
• Provide subject matter advisory across resiliency disciplines including business continuity, disaster recovery, technology/cyber, operations/process resiliency, and incident/crisis management
• Lead and support project teams, share insights and experience, and use analytics to find new ways of working that put people and process first
• Understand client business drivers, opportunities, and goals; work to support them
• Manage engagement risk, deliverables, and budgets across multiple, complex projects
• Lead go-to-market strategies and the design, planning, and delivery of offerings
• Explore new design-based approaches to improve the client/customer experience
• Show clients where and how to benefit from a more flexible workforce
• Help lead the practice by championing Accenture initiatives and products
• Stay on top of how new regulations and technologies affect clients' businesses - and ours
• Attract new business by creating thoughtful proposals and building strong client relationships
• Create and develop thought leadership to promote Accenture's industry brand

Travel:
For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.
Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from a number of infectious disease experts.

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Qualifications

Here's what you need:

• Minimum 12 years of experience in an information security environment focused on technology and security
• Minimum 10 years of experience in risk management consulting in financial services (banking, capital markets, FinTech and/or insurance)
• Minimum 10 years of experience leading a security strategy and creating governance frameworks while managing large teams working on complex problem-solving
• Bachelor's degree

Bonus points if:

• You're already one of these: - CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
• CBCM: Certified Business Continuity Manager
• C/DRE: Certified Disaster Recovery Engineer
• CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
• Risk professional certifications (e.g., Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM), Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA), Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP))
• You're an expert project manager with a focus on setting strategy and client service
• You know a business growth opportunity when you see one and can negotiate complex deals

• You've got an MBA after your name or another type of advanced degree
• Familiarity with Robotics Process Automation (RPA), Cloud Security, Incident Response, Global Identity and Access Management
• Experience with Governance, Risk and Compliance technology (e.g. ServiceNow Governance Risk and Compliance, Fusion Framework System, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, HighBond etc.)
• Experience with Workflow/Business Process Management solutions (e.g., Appian, iGrafx, Signavio etc.)

As required by theColorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only , the range of starting pay for this role is $151,900 - $235,699 and information on benefits offered is here.

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