Risk, Compliance And Law Technology Product Consultant (hybrid)

Risk, Compliance and Law Technology Product Consultant (Hybrid)

At Securian Financial the internal title for this position is Product Sr Analyst or Product Consultant. The title and salary will be determined based on experience and applied skills. Position Overview The Risk, Compliance and Law Technology Product Consultant is responsible for driving product direction, defining requirements, and delivering measurable value for products supporting the Risk, Compliance, and Law (RiCoLaw) domain. This role aligns business objectives, customer needs, regulatory requirements, and enterprise risk priorities to deliver reliable, user-friendly, and sustainable technology solutions. Serving as an agile champion, this role focuses on solving business and customer problems through thoughtful product strategy, backlog prioritization, and data-driven decision making. The Analyst partners closely with stakeholders to define outcomes, identify key performance indicators, and ensure delivery of solutions that support risk-informed decisions and enterprise governance objectives. This role also serves as a workstream lead across RiCoLaw programming and support systems, contributing to medium to large initiatives and portfolio efforts. By leveraging domain expertise and strong stakeholder engagement, the Analyst helps protect employees, customers, and enterprise value.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Maintenance and System Support (60%): Serve as a subject matter expert for Integrated Risk Management tooling, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure effective system configuration, alignment with the Common Risk Framework and business strategy, and data quality. This will include development and administration activities within tools.
• Take a consultative approach to create requirements documents for system builds or changes, empowering teams to develop solutions and internal documentation with guidance and knowledge transfer.
• Act as a liaison between vendors and internal customers to identify requirements and implement necessary system changes.
• Oversee releases by reviewing new features, facilitating testing, and developing documentation and communication materials for large implementations.
• Ensure system security through role creation, security groups, and compliance with legal requirements and internal standards.
• Ensure quality, managing ET Standards quality assurance activities, test case creation and documentation.
• Manage team SLA adherence to ET department standards.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and training materials of system processes

System Enhancements and Optimization (40%):

• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise to a diverse set of stakeholders from the business, portfolio management, governance teams (Enterprise Architecture, ECS, etc.), and technical areas to articulate the business need and ensure technical solutions meet business objectives and goals. (Business case development and value optimization)
• Collaborate with Module Leads and Business Owners, leadership, and the RiCoLaw/Corporate Services Technology team to understand end-user needs, evaluate processes, and identify automation opportunities across functional areas.
• Act as a change agent for systems in our portfolio, enhancing capabilities to drive adoption, improve efficiency, and enhance user experience.
• Provide assessment and impact analysis of feature releases and lead optimization projects to maximize system potential for business users.
• Assist the Product Owner in developing the product roadmap, aligning capabilities with business objectives, and recommending improvements to streamline processes and enhance the end-user experience.
• Serve as a technology lead to ensure the success, adoption and innovation of current and future technology solutions

Other duties:

• Perform project management activities as needed to drive technology solutions that meet business outcomes.
• Manage small to medium sized projects.
• Drive decisions related to project planning, execution and closure.
• Assist with the research, selection, implementation and management and roll out of new technology solutions.
• Continually assesses business needs and implements solutions that will ensure customer expectations are met or exceeded by enhancing system capability and performance.
• Contribute to the ongoing change review process and advises on priority, impact, and cost of new change requests.
• Serves as system administrator for required platforms and ensures our systems are ran safely and securely.
• Enforce ET operating principles into business strategies
• Manage the requirements effort on small, less complex assignments.
• Utilize knowledge and experience from requirements reviews and testing activities to produce requirements used as a guideline for application development and test planning.
• Apply the appropriate requirements techniques, tools and templates based on the Solution Delivery Approach (e.g., traditional or Agile), project complexity and size.
• Develop and communicate the requirements plan.
• Identify resources for elicitation, capture the business need, document elicitation results and confirm expressed stakeholder requirements and concerns.
• Produce quality requirements which meet the business needs, objectives and acceptance criteria to be used for design, development, testing and user acceptance.
• Manage the requirements approval, baseline, solution validation and change management activities.
• Finalize and archive all requirements related documentation.
• Responsible for providing leadership to all project stakeholders to coordinate decisions related to planning, development, design, testing and implementation of business solutions.
• This requires extensive knowledge of multiple division products and plans, proprietary business processes and systems, business workflow, vendor systems, contractual, client and/or regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and directly related work experience required.
• In-depth understanding of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) or Integrated Risk Management (IRM) domains and work experience.
• Experience in system life-cycle phases, requirements elicitation, analysis, design (which includes Securian Governance processes), quality assurance testing, implementation, deployment, and system upgrades.
• Ability to effectively present technical and functional information in a manner that is understandable to all levels of the organization.
• Project management experience with demonstrated ability to multi-task and prioritize.
• Advanced analytical skills including excellent problem-solving skills with an understanding of core Integrated Risk Management business practices

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If you're in a commutable distance (90 minutes) you'll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.