Risk and Control Specialist We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced professional to lead our global third-party risk and operational resilience program. This role is critical in ensuring that our external partners can deliver services reliably and recover effectively from disruptions, safeguarding our customers, operations, and reputation. This position involves overseeing the third-party lifecycle, ensuring robust risk assessment, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring of critical suppliers, resellers, and distributors. Additionally, you will collaborate with procurement, legal, compliance, and business units to embed risk controls and resilience requirements into third-party engagements. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in third-party risk management and operational resilience, ideally within financial services or a regulated technology environment. They should be able to manage complex vendor relationships and drive continuous improvement in resilience capabilities. Key Responsibilities: - Third Party Risk Management: Oversee the third-party lifecycle, ensuring robust risk assessment, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring of critical suppliers, resellers, and distributors. - Operational Resilience: Design and maintain a global framework for assessing third-party operational resilience, aligned with regulatory expectations. - Governance, Reporting & Compliance: Prepare and deliver regular reports to senior management and governance committees on third-party risk and resilience status. Required Skills and Qualifications: - Strong understanding of third-party risk governance and operational resilience frameworks. - Experience in risk assessment, control design, and mitigation strategies across enterprise-wide risks. - Familiarity with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, AML, cybersecurity) and ability to translate them into business processes. - Analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and ability to identify risk themes and hotspots. - Effective stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence across functions. Benefits: We offer a dynamic work environment, opportunities for growth and development, and a competitive compensation package. About Us: We are a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, create marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into various markets. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more industry segments. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland.