Third Party Risk Analyst

Job Title: Third Party Risk Management Analyst

Location: Mclean, VA (Fully Onsite)

Duration: 6+ Months Contract

Have Qualifications:

Must have 5+ years of third-party risk management experience. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with enterprise risk, risk assessments, stakeholder management, multitasking, organization, and critical thinking. Advanced Excel skills and a demonstrated eagerness to learn with a sense of urgency are required.

Hiring Manager call notes

Must-Haves:

• 5+ years of hands-on TPRM/vendor risk management experience.
• Strong enterprise risk governance, assessment review, and stakeholder management.
• Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, formulas).
• Data aggregation, risk reporting, dashboards, and PowerPoint presentations.
• OneTrust preferred; similar TPRM platforms acceptable.
• Strong communication, critical thinking, multitasking, and sense of urgency .

HM Notes:

• Governance-focused role (1.5 Line of Defense); review and challenge risk assessments rather than conduct them.
• Covers all third-party risk domains.
• High-visibility programs with senior leadership interaction.
• Power BI, VBA, and SQL are nice-to-haves; IT audit-only backgrounds not preferred.
• Looking for proactive candidates who can independently manage deliverables .

Job Description:

• Analyzing governance requirements independently to be able to propose solutions, identify impacts, risks and issues.
• Establish and maintain strong functional relationships with Enterprise partners and stakeholders
• Analyze Enterprise data to independently extract relevant information while summarizing results
• Aggregate Enterprise data for periodic reporting, adhoc reports, metric reporting
• Support in validating quarterly Dashboard materials
• Monitor changes in third party risk domains and associated residual risk
• Review Enterprise Third Party Performance Assessments
• Support Enterprise Watchlist processes and aggregation of data
• Advocate for improving existing processes leveraging intellectual curiosity and tenacity

Requirements:

• Understanding of Third-Party Risk Management
• Strong sense of urgency, tenacity and proactiveness
• At least 5 years of experience using Microsoft Excel (basic formulas such as xlookups/If, Pivot tables, Graphs), Tableau, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, Word, Adobe
• Experience creating power point presentations
• Strong commitment to the team’s objectives on reducing third party risk for the enterprise
• Experience with OneTrust or similar platform

Additional Skills:

• Ability to demonstrate taking initiative
• Ability to prioritize projects and multitask effectively
• Capable of identifying and resolving problems independently
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Data Analysis and AI adoption
• Data Aggregation and interpretation to get to salient storylines
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to stakeholders
• Ability to work and collaborate effectively in a team environment
• Business Writing to a leadership audience that is concise and persuasive

Must Have Qualifications:

• Must have 5 plus years of third-party risk management experience.
• The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with enterprise risk, risk assessments, stakeholder management, multitasking, organization, and critical thinking.
• Advanced Excel skills and a demonstrated eagerness to learn with a sense of urgency are required.