Risk Program Manager, Extended Workforce Solutions

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience in risk management, audit or compliance programs in organizations with contingent workforce.
- Experience in identifying and assessing risks, and designing and testing controls.
- Experience in developing risk, control, or compliance frameworks.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Certification in CPA/CIA/CCEP/ RIMS-CRMP or related.
- Ability to navigate through ambiguity, manage and coordinate multiple project assignments simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, accept ownership and accountability of the process and deliver on commitments.
- Ability to work with a wide variety of departments, take charge, have confidence to interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, influence, and be a team player with excellent communication, people management, and leadership skills.
- Ability to take initiative to address problems and make continuous process improvements.
- Ability to work with teams cross-functionally and cross-regionally.

**About the job**:
gTech’s Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) team enables product areas to effectively and efficiently scale their extended workforce operations while managing risk. Our goal is to enable our businesses to make informed decisions to put the right talent in the right locations. Our partnership with teams across Google aims to provide an excellent user experience and minimizes administrative burden throughout the extended workforce process. We strike a balance between optimizing extended workforce engagements and making sure extended workforce policies and guidelines are followed.

The Risk and Compliance team is responsible for ensuring that Google complies with all laws and regulations applicable to its contingent workforce globally. The team does this by identifying and assessing risks, setting requirements, designing and assessing controls, ensuring governance, and conducting testing and auditing. The team is a second line of defense at Google, working with other teams to ensure that Google is compliant with all applicable laws and regulations.

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

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**Responsibilities**:

- Understand and mature the current extended workforce solutions risk program including processes, assessments, framework, and data driven approach to mitigation.
- Support quantification efforts and determine how to integrate quantitative assessments with qualitative assessments for a portfolio view of risk for extended workforce solutions and Alphabet.
- Identify control gaps and design sound and balanced recommendations to improve compliance in partnership with management and risk partners. Monitor and validate completion of business mitigation plans.
- Collaborate, communicate, educate, and influence policy, process and control owners throughout Google and at different levels to improve process and controls to mitigate compliance risks.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration on risk topics with product areas and key risk and compliance stakeholders and partners. Assess risks of regulatory requirements as they pertain to Google’s contingent workforce including operational, legal, reputational, cultural, and financial risks.

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