IT Risk Management Specialist @MarshTech

Company:Mercer

Description:

IT Risk Management develops and executes an information security strategy that keeps the company's and its clients' data secure as it is stored, processed and transmitted through company and third-party systems. As an IT Risk Management Specialist, you will be an established, independent individual contributor, whose work has a direct impact on the team's outcomes.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Cyber / IT Risk Management within Global Information Security, you will engage with technology and business teams globally, to follow up on incomplete risk records in alignment with the Cyber / IT Risk registration processes and missed deadlines for treatment plans.

We will count on you to:

• Enable our businesses to properly evaluate and consider risk impacts within business decisions to accept risk to our IT systems and applications, by ensuring complete and accurate risk details within the global Cyber/ IT Risk Register.
• Frequently communicate with risk owners to understand risks, ensure they are captured completely in the register, and ultimately support the management of risk by providing feedback on necessary outstanding tasks.
• Prepare and provide reports to technology and business teams overdue risk notifications as a prompt for action to address register IT risks
• Periodically, report on approaching treatment deadlines to support the risk owners in the timely completion of approved remediation activities.

What you need to have: 

• Work regularly and consistently without direct supervision
• Attention to detail resulting in thorough and accurate task product
• Ability to consistently focus on the small aspects in a timely fashion
• Good written and verbal communication skills

What makes you stand out?

• IT Risk Management experience, with audit experience an added advantage but not essential
• Collaborative approach to improving ways of working.

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work, and supportive leaders;
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have an impact for colleagues, clients, and communities;
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being;
• A yearly budget and the opportunity to build your flexible benefits package (up to 20% of your annual salary);
• 30+ days off (25 legal days off, 1 extra day off on your birthday, public holiday replacement days, extra buy/sell from your benefits budget);
• Performance Bonus scheme;
• Matching charity contributions, charity days off, and the Pay it Forward charity challenge;
• Core benefits - Pension, Life and Medical Insurance, Meal Vouchers, Travel Insurance;
• We champion flexible working, and our mission is to help you find YOUR work-life balance, whether that is standard working, flextime working, or working from home;

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit corporate.marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.