Career Opportunities: IT Compliance and Regulatory Manager (50144)

Allianz Services is part of Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers and has succeeded in becoming one individual business segment by combining various businesses from different parent companies. Allianz Services is running service delivery operations in Romania, India, Mauritius, and Morocco as well as is operating Consulting hubs in Germany, USA, Italy, France, and Singapore with almost 6000 colleagues globally.

Allianz Services Romania has a key role in the transformation of the Group by improving operations and creating a superior experience for customers, offering actuarial, financial, IT, HR and governance services. Our team counts over 1000 passionate professionals whose main assets are the expertise and top qualifications, combined with multilingual skills, ranging from English, German, French and Italian, to Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian.  

At Allianz Services Romania, we aim to attract best talents and create an inspiring environment for our people to develop, while unceasingly caring for our community and for shaping a better future together!

Job role

Digitalization, globalization, and large transformation programs expose organizations to new threats may not been identified or assessed before. Allianz is responsible to protect their business and reputation, as well as their customers, employees, and partners. Digital business has created a new ecosystem, one in which partners add new business capabilities and security complexities. Vision for risk and security must be based on an ecosystem that enables trust and resilience.

As managing information risk becomes an increasingly important business concern, Allianz Services is building a new off-shore team to provide operational support to Allianz Operating Entities’ Information Security and Information Risk Management teams to enable them to fulfil Allianz Group Information Security Framework requirements and Allianz Integrated Information Risk Management approach.

Allianz Services is looking for highly motivated professionals to join Technology and Risk Services  team. Curious to learn more about it? We are looking to reinforce our team as soon as possible.

What you will do

• Monitor/execute IT Control Catalogue
• Monitor and assess Control Assurance Reporting from AZ Tech
• Analyze and support compliance inquiries from international AZ Re locations; e.g. Monetary Authority of Singapore, Central Bank of Ireland, …)
• Actively contribute to annual IT Compliance Assessment
• Support external audit of Annual Closing of AZ SE
• Support internal audits according to Audit Plan
• Oversee the contractual framework with the Service Provider (IT Supply Outsourcing Agreement)
• Ensure compliance to regulatory and AZ Group IT Governance (e.g. VAIT, DORA Allianz IT Policy)
• Initiate and manage change initiatives and complex projects where necessary

What you bring

• 5+ years business experience in Information Technology, ideally in the financial services branch
• Profound knowledge of IT Compliance related frameworks and standards (e.g. Allianz Policy for IT, Functional Rule for IT, Information Risk Management and Information Security and relevant frameworks such as  COBIT, ITIL)
• Profound understanding of German and European regulatory requirements towards IT (VAIT, DORA)
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and proven experience with stakeholder management and C-level communication
• Self-motivated individual able to function effectively when working independently or in a team

You have

• Previous exposure to information risk management, Information Technology Governance, IT operations (system administration, IT support) or any Information Security work streams such as offensive (ethical hacking, social engineering) and defensive security (digital forensics, security monitoring). Either by previous work experience or studies.
• Previous business experience in designing and implementing risk, governance, and control frameworks; experience in conducting risk assessments; experience in testing business processes and internal controls
• Relevant business experience with a focus on Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Operational Risk Management and/or Internal Risk & Controls Systems
• Understanding of data privacy and business continuity, and relevant safeguarding function controls
• Pro-active and solution-oriented behaviour