Cognosante employees are passionate about improving people’s lives. With an innovative mindset and an unwavering commitment to those we serve, we partner with healthcare, civilian and defense agencies to deliver exceptional public services and programs. Our multi-faceted technology and customer experience (CX) solutions achieve program outcomes, solve critical challenges and create meaningful change. Whether we are helping Veterans access healthcare faster, ensuring that members of the military complete their missions safely, or helping people obtain health insurance, our work touches millions of people. Are you ready to make a difference?
We help our Client, and their Customers, to successfully integrate (component-by-component) financial management systems. We need like-minded mission-focused professionals to join in our growth.
What is the position?
Identify and manage risk and risk reporting, over a number of simultaneous projects in multiple components.
What will I get to do?
- Implement and manage a comprehensive Risk Program to identify, mitigate, and track all risks to FSM Programs
- Identify a Risk Management tool that will be used to house all risks across the JPMO and Component FSM initiatives
- Maintain a risk register using information technology tools as a master repository of all FSM risks across the DHS Enterprise
- Define and maintain an FSM Risk Management Plan to document an end-to-end process to manage risks from initial reporting to final resolution
- Define and maintain program-specific Risk Management Plans to document program specific implementation of JPMO risk
- Perform in-depth analysis of risks producing data that includes (but is not limited to) probability distributions of risk occurrence, costs, and impacts. Analysis should be clearly exhaustive and include at a minimum source data, mean, variance, coefficient of variation, sensitivity analysis (including key variables), and assumptions
- Facilitate Risk Management IPT meetings with JPMO and Component stakeholders
- Work with stakeholders to help define informally documented risks and to identify proper owners
- Assist risk owners in developing detailed, discrete, actionable, and timed mitigation plans for risks
- Work with risk owners to status active risks, track probability, impact, trigger dates, and progress in enacting mitigation and contingency plans.
- Close out risks when they have been avoided, transferred, or sufficiently mitigated as appropriate
- Document and prepare materials to present risks to external stakeholders such as Chief Executive Officers (CXO), Acquisition Review Boards, OMB, Congress, etc
- Provide industry best practices, lessons learned, and innovative approaches to addressing and minimizing risk across the JPMO and Component programs
What qualifications do I need?
- US Citizen able to pass a government level background check and obtain a Public Trust
- Minimum of 6 years experience in Risk Management
- Experience in the planning, initiation, and management of information technology (IT) projects
- Has led and guided the work of technical staff
- Served as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects.
- Experience planning project stages and assessment of business implications for each stage
- Prior experience monitoring progress to assure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met
- Has provided technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments
- Prior experience establishing goals and plans that meet project objectives.
- Has demonstrated domain and expert technical knowledge
- Directs and controls activities for a client, having overall responsibility for financial management, methods, and staffing to ensure that technical requirements are met
- Proven ability to direct and control activities for a client, having overall responsibility for financial management, methods, and staffing to ensure that technical requirements are met
- Experience with interactions involving client negotiations and interfacing with senior management
What additional characteristics will help me thrive?
- Experience working with ServiceNow, Momentum, Oracle Federal Financials, SAP, or other Oracle systems
- Current or recent experience supporting DHS or another federal agency
- Ensure optimal health and productivity of our employees
- Support employee retention and attraction
- Provide work/life balance to ensure our employees succeed inside and outside of the office
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