Senior Manager/Manager - Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Governance
Paytm · Posted Oct 19
Mobile payments, digital wallets, banking solutions, and financial services
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About the role
The role leads the strategic design, operationalization, and ongoing oversight of Paytm's enterprise-wide Third-Party Risk Management framework. It covers identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating third-party risks across vendors, suppliers, and partners in a regulated BFSI/FinTech environment. The Senior Manager/Manager will own TPRM governance and policy, run vendor risk assessments and monitoring, and present executive dashboards and exception reports to senior leadership and risk committees.
What you will do
- Establish robust governance mechanisms and the end-to-end design for formulating, executing, and enhancing TPRM control frameworks, policies, and standard operating procedures.
- Ensure enterprise-wide adoption of third-party risk methodologies, aligning with applicable regulatory requirements.
- Drive a data-driven risk-based approach to 3rd party evaluation, exception identification, and reporting.
- Design, consolidate, and present executive TPRM dashboards, trend analyses, and exception reports directly to the Risk Management Committee, Board of Directors, and Senior leadership.
- Perform inherent and residual risk assessments, monitor SLA adherence, performance metrics, and control effectiveness across the vendor lifecycle.
- Lead and oversee continuous vendor risk evaluations across multiple domains, including financial health, information security, operational resilience, legal, compliance, and reputational risk.
- Maintain and govern a centralized, risk-tiered vendor inventory categorizing third parties based on service nature, data access, regulatory criticality, and concentration risk.
- Define periodic due diligence and monitoring frequencies aligned with organizational risk appetite and regulatory standards.
- Lead the ongoing monitoring strategy for critical third parties, utilizing SLA performance tracking, continuous financial health reviews, threat intelligence feeds, and regulatory sanction screening.
- Manage and orchestrate structured, periodic vendor risk questionnaire assessments and remediation programs as defined under the TPRM framework.
- Track vendor incidents, operational control failures, and risk events to drive remediation, while maintaining up-to-date policies, SOPs, risk registers, and governance reporting.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Industry Expertise: 6+ years of domain experience in Third-Party Risk Management, including Outsourcing Risk, Vendor Evaluation, Operational Risk, or Risk Governance within BFSI, FinTech, or a regulated environment.
- Regulatory Frameworks: Deep understanding of regulatory guidelines on Third-Party Governance standards.
- Vendor & Operational Oversight: Demonstrated expertise in 3rd Party due diligence, SLA governance, regulatory compliances, and audit support for key third parties
- Multi-Domain Risk Evaluation: Proven capability to assess complex, multi-domain vendor risk scenarios across legal, financial, cyber, operational, and regulatory vectors.
- Analytical & Data-Driven Mindset: Strong expertise in risk scoring models, trend analysis, exception tracking, and executive dashboarding.
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Risk Management, Finance, Commerce, Law, Information Security, or a related discipline.
- Certifications: Professional certifications in Risk Management or Information Security (e.g., ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, CISA, CRISC, or CERA) are preferred.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Paytm
Paytm is India's leading financial services company offering full-stack payment solutions, digital wallets, QR codes, and financial services to consumers and merchants. The platform provides comprehensive digital inclusion via UPI payments, banking services distribution, merchant devices, and lending solutions. Operating under its parent firm One97 Communications, Paytm has scaled its operations into a robust profitability-driven ecosystem.
- Industry
- FinTech
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2010
- Location
- Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $4.91B raised
- 2023-08-28Late Stage$246.34M
- 2020-11-20Angel$1.26M
- 2019-12-06Series H$673M
- 2018-08-27Series G$300M
Leadership
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer
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