Risk Analyst (Remote)

Who We Are Join a team that puts its People First! First American's National Production Services division provides global title and escrow production support across all channels within First American Title including the Mortgage Services, Commercial, Direct, and Agency divisions. Since 1889, First American (NYSE : FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list for ten consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com. What We Do Reviews, analyzes, and reports on risk, quality, service, and controls to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness, mitigate risk and remediate operational and regulatory vulnerabilities. Conducts risk assessments to ensure compliance with federal and state regulatory requirements, industry standards, and operating procedures. Maintains and updates procedural manuals, job aides and tools. Develops standard risk assessment scopes and conducts re-scoping of established reviews to ensure validity. Performs analyses to determine the root cause of process gaps. Monitors corrective action target dates to ensure prompt remediation and control implementation to comply with regulatory requirements.

What You'll Do

• Analyzes, defines and documents detailed process workflows through user interviews, facilitated workshops and subject matter expert engagement.
• Creates a clear understanding of the core accountabilities within the process. Ensures the focus of activity is concentrated on the highest priority needs of the business.
• Organizes the research for and development of specialized risk assessment scopes.
• Collaborates with management and personnel to optimize risk assessment and scope development.
• Identifies potential business risks, operational and regulatory process deficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Gathers and synthesizes data; presents conclusions and offers risk mitigation, remediation, and process improvement solutions to management.
• Makes recommendations for additional controls and corrective action to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations and risk mitigation processes.
• Assists in preparing and presenting to management and / or affected business unit(s) on summaries, operational and regulatory risk assessment reports, trends, and remedial or mitigation solutions.
• Gathers information and provides fact-based findings and recommendations. Escalates issues identified during review and analysis to stakeholders.
• Establishes a network of subject matter experts that provide the detail and context for existing processes, and / or stakeholders that may influence others to help support or drive improvements and to mitigate risks.

What You'll Bring

This is a remote job opportunity.

Pay Range : $62,700 - $83,575 annually

This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.

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