Risk & Controls Analyst

Job Title: Risk & Controls Analyst
Duration: Full-Time Hire / Permanent Role
Location: Lafayette, LA, Knoxville, TN, Columbia, SC or Birmingham, AL.
Work Mode: Hybrid - 3days onsite – 2 days remote

Your future duties and responsibilities
Systemone is seeking a Risk Analyst to support governance, risk, and controls initiatives within a highly regulated financial services environment. This role serves as a bridge between business and technology teams, helping document processes, assess risks, develop controls, and drive process improvement efforts.
The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders to identify operational risks, document procedures and controls, coordinate remediation activities, and support audit and compliance initiatives.

This position requires a combination of business analysis, project coordination, and risk management expertise, along with strong communication and organizational skills.

The Risk Analyst will facilitate workshops, gather requirements, maintain risk and control documentation, monitor project deliverables, and provide reporting to leadership. This individual will play a key role in strengthening governance practices, improving operational effectiveness, and ensuring alignment with regulatory and organizational standards.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience within Governance, Risk & Controls (GRC), Operational Risk Management, or similar areas such as Audit, Compliance, or Internal Controls.
• Experience supporting Governance, Risk, and Controls (GRC) programs within financial services or other regulated industries.
• Strong understanding of operational risk management, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring.
• Ability to document business processes, procedures, risk assessments, control inventories, and process workflows.
• Experience creating and maintaining preventive and detective controls.
• Knowledge of industry control frameworks such as COSO, SOX, NIST, COBIT, and Operational Risk Management standards.
• Strong business analysis skills with the ability to translate business requirements into actionable process and control documentation.
• Project coordination experience, including managing action items, milestones, dependencies, and remediation activities.
• Skilled at facilitating stakeholder workshops, interviews, and working sessions to gather information and drive consensus.
• Experience supporting audits, regulatory examinations, and internal reviews.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Visio, SharePoint, Jira, and Confluence.
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to create professional documentation and executive level reporting.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently while effectively collaborating across business and technology teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills.
• Experience working within large enterprise environments utilizing cloud based technologies and modern technology governance practices, including AWS focused environments.

Desired Skillset:

• CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control)
• CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor)
• PMP (Project Management Professional)
• Certified Risk Management Professional (CRMP)
• ITIL Foundation

Education:
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Systems, Risk Management, Technology, or a related field

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System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé, ALTA IT Services, TeamPeople, and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.