Sr Manager, IT Risk and Assurance - Legal & General America

At Legal & General America, we aim to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers, partners, colleagues, and the communities in which they live.  As a recognized market leader of term life insurance, we’re working to transform our business through innovation and technology to provide products and solutions that help American families secure their financial futures.

We are a future-focused company, passionate about what we do and how we do it. This means working with pace and energy to reach our goals, and challenging ourselves to achieve more.  We strive to create a unique environment where balance between work and life is possible. Our employees' passion, dedication and hard work, as well as our career development opportunities, benefits, and employee activities contribute to our positive workplace culture.

We are seeking an experienced and strategic IT professional to join our team as the Senior IT Risk and Assurance Manager. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing robust governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and standards, and providing assurance on the effectiveness of IT controls. This role will also encompass oversight of the corporate Business Continuity Program.  The successful candidate will play a crucial role in safeguarding our organization's information assets and maintaining the highest standards of security, integrity, and reliability.

Governance Framework Development:

• Design, implement, and continually enhance IT governance frameworks to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish clear policies, procedures, and guidelines for IT processes.

Compliance Management:

• Stay abreast of industry regulations, standards, and legal requirements relevant to IT operations.
• Conduct regular assessments to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and contractual obligations.
• Collaborate with legal and compliance teams to address emerging regulatory requirements.

Risk Management:

• Identify and assess IT-related risks, working towards the development of risk mitigation strategies.
• Implement a risk-aware culture within the IT department and assist in enterprise-wide risk management initiatives.

Assurance and Control Implementation:

• Develop and execute assurance programs to evaluate the effectiveness of IT controls.
• Work closely with IT teams to design and implement controls that mitigate identified risks.

Audit Coordination:

• Manage and coordinate internal and external audits related to IT governance, compliance, and assurance.
• Ensure timely and accurate responses to audit findings, implementing corrective actions as needed.

Business Continuity:

• Collaborating with business teams to conduct business impact and risk assessments, identifying critical services, defining recovery objectives, and mapping critical dependencies.
• Documenting business continuity plan requirements in our Corporate Continuity tool to ensure consistency and attestation.
• Partnering with various teams to coordinate recovery strategies as identified through the Business Continuity planning process.
• Facilitate business continuity exercises and tests to identify potential gaps in plans and assess the functionality of work transference processes supporting recovery.

Communication and Training:

• Communicate governance, compliance, and assurance objectives and requirements effectively across the organization.
• Develop and deliver training programs to enhance awareness and understanding of IT governance and compliance.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Advanced degree or relevant certifications (e.g., CISA, CISM, CGEIT) preferred.

Experience/Knowledge

• Senior to Advanced level (5+ progressive experience in IT governance, compliance, and assurance roles).
• Proven experience in developing and implementing effective governance frameworks and ensuring compliance with relevant standards.
• Proven stakeholder management experience at all levels.
• Exhibits strong leadership capabilities and emotional intelligence skills, and is a proven, results oriented individual focused on delivering customer value.
• Familiarity with IT governance tools and technologies.
• Strong understanding of IT risk management principles.

Skills

• Experience with audit management and risk assessment tools.
• Excellent knowledge of industry regulations and standards.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong leadership and management skills - creates and drives strategic vision, mentoring and coaching of staff and continuous feedback and support through effective planning and tracking.
• Proven solid written and oral communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate status and issues to executive management.
• Proven stakeholder management and ability to interact at all levels using expert presentation skills and material to effectively communicate and influence stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and collaborate across diverse teams.

What’s in it for you?

The expected hiring compensation range for this position is $136,800 - $188,100 annually.

This role will be working in a hybrid environment with up to 3 days in office per week.

The total compensation package for this position may include other elements, such as a sign-on bonus, long term incentives, and annual bonuses.  This role is eligible to participate in the Legal & General America Annual Incentive Plan. The current target payment for the position is 20% of base salary, modified for corporate and individual performance. Bonuses are pro-rated based on start date.  This role has 20 vacation days and 10 sick days that are accrued on a bi-weekly basis. Employees also have 9 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

We have a competitive compensation and benefits package focused on your overall wellbeing.  Employee benefits include health, life, and dental insurance; 401K with company match up to 6% as well as a pension package; generous time off; and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year (we like doing fun stuff).  We’re big on professional development and we’ll support and mentor you in your career progression and expect you to help us pay it forward by helping us develop tomorrow's leaders and growth-focused professionals. We value our teams and our communities and believe in giving back. Enjoy time off to volunteer for those causes that matter most to you!

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. The Company reserves the right to change benefits plans at any time.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.