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IT Risk Officer Job at Pearl Bank Uganda
Pearl Bank Uganda
Job Description
The IT Risk Officer provides independent assurance to management that established controls for IT systems are operating as intended to ensure compliance with regulations and bank policies. The role supports the Risk Department in driving technology risk assurance activities to ensure businesses and support functions execute necessary key controls effectively.
The officer also supports the Management Risk Committee process in identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring bank Information Technology and Cyber risks.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Conducting Information System risk assessments for new and existing systems, applications, and programs to ensure compliance with the bank’s security policies, regulatory requirements and adherence to best practices to identify weaknesses or security exposures and prescribe solutions to mitigate the risks related to those weaknesses and exposures.
- Performing periodic and surprise security assessments of areas such as operating systems, database management systems, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and web-based applications.
- Identifying and evaluating business technology risks and internal controls which mitigate risks, and related opportunities for internal control improvement and propose risk treatment plans.
- Providing guidance over the general activities and concerns of the organization’s Information Technology function including governance, policy, control design, general operational effectiveness, and internal controls.
- Liaising and coordinating with respective Risk champions, review IT risk and control self-assessments.
- Maintaining and following up/tracking for closure all IT findings arising out of Risk, Internal Audit, External Audit and BOU reviews.
- Monitoring and tracking IT risk events and following up associated actions plans to closure.
- Working with control owners to ensure control accuracy and remediation of any issues related to control exceptions.
- Maintaining a forward-looking Technology risk profile of the bank that captures the major risks, ensuring that risks that might impact multiple business and/or support functions are captured, and actions initiated to mitigate and control risks leading to a reduction in operational losses.
- Ensuring that staff are adequately trained in IT Risk Management, policies, and procedures.
- Ensuring that controls and checks associated with IT Risk Management deployment are in place and are effective
- Performing annual Quality Assurance Reviews of IT related Policies, Processes, and procedure manuals.
- Overseeing the Disaster Recovery Governance framework and Implementation.
- Supporting in the review of IT Risk Control Self Assessments (RCSAs) & Key Risk Indicators
- Supporting elements of IT related Investigations.
- Conducting IT Project Risk Assessments as and when required.
- Providing risk oversight and assurance over the activities of the Business Technology, Digitization and Innovation Units.
- Supporting in the preparation of monthly ICT risk reports as part of input into the monthly Management Risk Committee meetings and quarterly Board Risk Committee meetings.
- Conducting IT Risk awareness trainings and sharing IT risk control communication across the bank to improve on risk awareness.
- Participating in fraud risk management and monitoring.
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