Third Party Risk Management Coordinator, Ahmedabad (India)

Description

Qatar Airways is recruiting for the role of Third Party Risk Management Coordinator based at our Global Business Services (GBS) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat (India).

The position is primarily responsible for performing day-to-day activities of the Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) lifecycle for the third parties, covering inherent risk assessment, due diligence, onboarding checks, continuous monitoring and offboarding, applying the TPRM Framework and the team’s procedures and templates consistently, gathering and evaluating due diligence evidence, documents assessment outcomes and rationale, keeping TPRM records audit-ready, and work directly with User Departments and specialist, identifying issues, gaps and adverse findings and refers them to the Third Party Risk Manager, who approves assessment outcomes and handling contentious or high exposure matters functions to obtain the information required.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a day-to-day point of contact for User Departments and relationship owners on third party risk requirements, providing practical guidance on process, templates and evidence, and builds effective working relationships with User Departments and specialist functions to secure timely input,

• Identify recurring difficulties, inefficiencies and practical obstacles in applying the team’s procedures, templates and guidance, and propose improvements.

• Record where assessment outcomes differ from the provisional tier, to support recalibration of the scoping rules,

• Contribute to the implementation, testing and ongoing improvement of the third-party risk tooling, uses it effectively, and maintain the quality of data within the TPRM system of record,

• Manage allocated caseload of assessments in line with the team’s assessment standards, turnaround times and key performance indicators, and flags early where these are at risk,

• Perform Inherent Risk Assessments for third parties handed over to the central team, running working sessions with relationship owners and subject matter experts to obtain operational facts and specialist input, and prepares the assessment outcome and, where applicable, the rationale for a change in tier for review by the Third Party Risk Manager,

• Challenge responses and scoring that are not supported by evidence, ensures consistency across assessments, and refers unresolved differences to the Third-Party Risk Manager,

• Perform due diligence proportionate to the assessed level of risk, collecting, validating and evaluating evidence such as audited financial and credit reports, certifications, data protection documentation, and sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening results,

• Request and follows up specialist input from functions such as, but not limited to, Compliance, Legal, Information Security, the Data Protection Office and Procurement, and consolidates their responses into the assessment record,

• Prepare clear, evidence-based due diligence summaries setting out findings, gaps, residual concerns and a proposed risk disposition for review and approval by the Third-Party Risk Manager,

• Escalate adverse findings, refused information requests and potential mandatory decline indicators immediately upon identification,

• Maintain the inventory of in-scope third parties allocated to them, keeping risk classification, relationship owner, contract references and key dates complete and current,

• Check all prerequisite lifecycle stages are complete and formally closed before a third party is onboarded, and reports any exceptions,

• Run screening and continuous monitoring at the defined cadence, reviews and dispositions alerts, discounts false positives with documented rationale, and escalates genuine trigger events,

• Support User Departments in performance review cycles and in the structured offboarding of third parties, including confirmation of data return or destruction, access revocation and record closure,

• Maintain the TPRM system of record so that assessments, evidence, approvals and decisions are complete, current and audit-ready,

• Prepare routine reporting on assessment completion, overdue items, open findings and monitoring status, and flag emerging trends to the Third-Party Risk Manager,

• Deliver agreed remediation and evidence in support of Internal Audit recommendations relating to third party management.

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Qualification

• High School / Diploma or Equivalent with minimum 3 years of job-related work experience or Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent with minimum 2 years of job-related work experience.

Job Specific skills/ Essentials

• Professional certification in risk, audit, compliance or third party / vendor risk management (e.g. CRMA, CIA, CRISC, CTPRP),

• Awareness of third-party risk and risk management frameworks and standards, including but not limited to COSO, ISO 31000 and ISO 27001,

• Experience of working with a GRC / third party risk platform, case management or workflow tooling,

• Experience in third party / vendor risk management, procurement, internal control, risk management, compliance, audit or a comparable evidence-based assessment role,

• Ability to read and interpret due diligence evidence (audited financials and credit reports, certifications, data protection documentation, and sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening results) and to identify what is missing or inconsistent,

• Lead structured working sessions with business stakeholders and challenge their input constructively,

• Competent in Microsoft Excel and comfortable working with data sets, trackers and reporting,

• Good Command of English language with good written and verbal communication skills as well as strong interpersonal skills.

About Qatar Airways Group

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

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