Risk Assessment Specialist
Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours.
Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.
With a focus on customer-centric thinking, we're not just another vendor – we're a transformative force in the industry. By joining one of our Customer Excellence teams, you will have the chance to work with our portfolio of over 10,000 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies.
We are seeking a highly skilled Risk Assessment Specialist to enhance our risk management framework and drive our information security initiatives.
Job Summary:
The Risk Assessment Specialist will be responsible for leading risk assessment activities across the organization, identifying vulnerabilities, and developing strategies to mitigate risks to our information assets. This role requires expertise in information security risk management, strong analytical skills, and the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
Key Responsibilities:
- Risk Assessment Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of risk assessment methodologies, frameworks, and processes to identify, analyze, and prioritize risks related to information security
- Risk Analysis: Conduct comprehensive risk assessments, including threat modeling and vulnerability assessments, to evaluate the potential impact of security incidents on the organization
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including IT, compliance, and business units, to ensure alignment of risk management strategies with organizational objectives
- Reporting: Prepare detailed risk assessment reports for senior management and the board, outlining key findings, risk ratings, and recommended mitigation strategies
- Policy Development: Contribute to the development and revision of security policies, standards, and procedures based on risk assessment outcomes and industry best practices
- Continuous Monitoring: Establish mechanisms for ongoing risk monitoring and reassessment, ensuring that the organization remains aware of emerging threats and vulnerabilities
- Training and Awareness: Develop and conduct training programs to promote a culture of risk awareness and security best practices among employees
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure that risk assessment activities align with relevant regulations and standards (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR), and assist with audit preparation and responses
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Risk Management, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience in information security, risk assessment, or a related field, with a focus on leading risk management initiatives
- In-depth knowledge of risk assessment frameworks and methodologies, including qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
- Strong understanding of information security principles, best practices, and regulatory requirements
- Exceptional analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and provide actionable insights
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and cross-functional teams
- Proficiency with risk assessment tools and software.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA)
- Experience in a leadership role within a risk management or information security function
Here are some of our local benefits:
- Work from home, remotely, or hybrid
- Partial compensation for glasses and lenses
- Private health insurance
- Volunteering Time Off (2 days/ year)
- SZÉP Card for recreational activities
- 3 extra days/ month for 'sick leave' without doctors visit
- Flexible working hours
Join ABBYY, and you will:
Love how you work
- We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
- We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
- Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
- To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.
Love whom you work with
- We are a global team of 600+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
- With colleagues representing 30+ nationalities, our workforce reflects the world.
- Innovation and excellence run through our veins. Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140
technology patents. - We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity.
- "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.
Love what you work on
- We are a company with more than 35 years of experience in the technology market;
- Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK;
- We have modernized the capture market by creating the first low-code/no-code IDP platform.
- Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process;
- Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.
ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.
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