Enterprise Risk Management Consultant

Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing...

The Consultant, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) - Regulatory Controls, is responsible for supporting Verizon’s Regulatory Compliance program. In this role you will be responsible for supporting the establishment and evaluation of controls, conducting risk assessments, and documenting processes while also continually providing recommendations to the business on how to reduce risk.

You will partner with business leaders and take a key role in assessing regulatory impacts on the company, identifying opportunities to enhance Verizon’s overall controls environment. In this role you will be partnering with business teams to develop and implement policies, procedures, and internal controls to ensure regulatory compliance across multiple processes, organizations, products and services. You will be supporting the business, assessing risks, designing and testing controls, driving process improvements, and providing transparent reporting to management.

• Developing, implementing and maintaining risk and controls matrices, policies, and standard operating procedures to address state and federal requirements including but not limited to FCC regulations and federally funded infrastructure programs (i.e. ARPA, BEAD, etc.).

• Monitoring and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of active business process and technology controls to help ensure that Verizon is meeting its legal and regulatory obligations.

• Working with key stakeholders throughout the enterprise to design, document, and implement business process and technology controls for regulatory compliance.

• Identifying financial, regulatory, operational and reputational risks and the design of controls to mitigate those risks.

• Partnering with cross functional teams to provide insights into control issues and risk reduction strategies.

• Developing strategic roadmaps, checklists and assessments for compliance readiness.

• Evaluating digital finance tools and resources to drive process efficiencies throughout the compliance lifecycle.

• Communicating timely updates on projects, issues and impacts to leadership.
  

What we’re looking for...

You’re a great listener, highly effective communicator and a detail oriented individual that can work independently and with others to drive project success. You are comfortable developing new processes and programs to meet regulatory objectives and reduce risk. You are able to drive a cross-functional team to key decisions in an evolving landscape. You understand that a rigorous control environment can help an organization meet its objectives in operational effectiveness and efficiency, reliable external reporting and compliance with laws, regulations and policies.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or Information Security.

• Four or more years’ of relevant work experience in Accounting, Finance, Audit, Risk Management, or Operational Assurance.

• Experience in operational compliance, business controls or finance.

• Experience in developing and executing audit/test procedures.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Effective organizational, project management, and interpersonal skills.

Even better if you have:

• A professional certification (CPA, CISA, CMA, CIA, CIPP, CISSP).

• Knowledge and experience with accounting, controls standards and regulatory compliance requirements (i.e. SOX, GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, CPNI, etc.).

• Knowledge of control risk and controls frameworks (i.e. NIST, COSO, ISO, etc.).

• Experience formulating, affecting, interpreting and implementing policies and processes.

• Experience leveraging audit principles and methods to evaluate policies, processes and systems.

• Demonstrated organizational and reporting skills.

• Knowledge of FCC regulations and standards.

• Ability to design and develop a strong controls environment to address regulatory requirements.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees’ differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.