IT Governance & Control Specialist

Zurich is one of the world’s leading insurance groups, and one of the few to operate on a global basis. Our mission is to help our customers understand and protect themselves from risk. With about 53,000 employees serving customers in more than 170 countries, we aspire to become the best global insurer as measured by our shareholders, customers and employees. We help individuals, small and medium sized companies and global corporations around the world understand and protect themselves from risk by offering a wide range of insurance products, solutions and advisory services.

Information Technology Governance & Control Specialist

As an Information Technology Risk & Control Specialist, you will join Zurich's IT and Operation team. You will play a crucial role in maintaining the organization's IT security and compliance, ensuring that IT controls are effectively implemented and maintained, aligning with Zurich's risk policies and regulatory requirements.

Main Responsibilities

• Internal Control framework: Support and contribute to establishing and delivering the internal control plan including performing validations and execution of controls. Oversee the management of remediation action plans, ensuring mitigation action plans are prepared and delivered in a timely manner.
• Strategic Risk Assessment: Ensure the effective assessment, management, and improvement of operational risk by meeting KRIs.
• Governance: contributes to the development and to the maintenance of comprehensive guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Third-Party management: support and contribute to Third-party privacy and IT security due diligence questionnaires.
• Business resilience: participates in disaster recovery activities and cyber resilience.
• Data solution delivery: Collaborate in designing and developing tools and solutions to process data and generate actionable insights.
• Cross functional support: provide support to other functions or departments, as needed to meet business objectives of the company.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years’ work experience within the insurance/ finance industry or a similar position within other industry
• Advanced expertise in IT infrastructure technologies and landscape (hardware, network security, telecommunications platforms, networks, security, etc.)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power BI, …)
• Fluent in English and French
• Strong teamwork with excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to work accurately and to deadlines
• Problem solving and ‘can do’ attitude