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The role:
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Advisor, Supplier Risk to join our dynamic team. As a key contributor, you will play a crucial role in the development and execution of a supplier rationalization plan and strategy aimed at optimizing vendors across various dimensions, including quality, capacity, systems, and responsiveness. This role involves working closely with business partners, procurement, legal, third-party risk, and information security teams to facilitate new supplier evaluations and onboarding, ensuring alignment with business requirements and compliance standards.
By joining SoFi, you'll become part of a forward-thinking company that is transforming financial services for the better. We offer the excitement of a rapidly growing startup with the stability of an industry leading leadership team.
What you’ll do:
The Senior Advisor, Supplier Risk, will help SoFi improve vendor management and internal communication by:
- Driving supplier rationalization strategy and execution across enterprise business units.
- Provide risk and operational oversight across the third party lifecycle (from onboarding to offboarding).
- Ensure adherence to service level agreements (SLAs) performance standards, and contractual obligations.
- Drive governance routines to track third party performance, issue remediation and risk mitigation.
- Assist in negotiating favorable terms, pricing, and service level agreements with third parties
- Facilitate new supplier evaluations and onboarding, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- Collaborate with cross-function teams (e.g., IT, legal, cybersecurity, privacy, procurement) to align risk and control expectations.
- Development and execution of frameworks, tools and reporting for third party engagements.
- Identify and escalate emerging third party risks and control gaps across engagements.
- Establishing process improvements for third parties and enhancing interactions within the organization.
- Providing reporting to various levels of executive and management forums.
What you’ll need:
- 5 + years of third party risk management experience in the financial services industry.
- Comprehensive knowledge of Third Party Risk Management methodologies, risk mitigation principles and regulatory expectations related to the financial services industry
- Proven ability to navigate interagency regulatory guidance.
- Strong working knowledge of supplier management best practices and industry trends
- Proven experience driving initiatives to achieve cost savings and efficiencies through strategic vendor partnerships and innovative solutions
- Proficient in computer skills, including spreadsheets, word processing, and business solutions software.
- Familiarity with navigating and interpreting complex procedures, policies, and agreements.
- Strong team-building, relationship management, and project management skills.
- Robust business analysis and problem-solving abilities, including data manipulation and analysis.
- Ability to multitask, work effectively in a team environment, and adapt to changing priorities.
- Bachelor’s degree
Nice to have:
- Experience in financial services with exposure to fraud prevention, credit strategy, collections and recovery, risk management, and/or a related field
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