SmartSuite for the Vendor Risk Analyst
The Vendor Risk Analyst executes vendor assessments: sending questionnaires, reviewing responses, validating documentation, scoring risk and keeping vendor profiles accurate. They produce the trend reporting that shows vendor risk by category, geography and criticality tier.
What you own
- Send questionnaires, review responses and document findings
- Validate vendor documentation and certifications
- Score vendor risk using the programme methodology
- Maintain accurate vendor profiles and tiering data
- Track remediation requests with vendors
- Analyse vendor risk trends by category, geography and tier
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How SmartSuite helps, suite by suite
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How they use the Third Party Risk Management suite
Assessment coordination
Sends questionnaires, reviews responses, and documents findings.
Trend reporting
Analyzes vendor risk by category, geography, business unit, or criticality tier.
Data integrity
Maintains accurate vendor profiles and ensures all documentation is current.
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How SmartSuite supports this role
Third-party risk. Accelerates assessment cycles by centralising vendor data, documentation and risk scoring, with questionnaires sent and reviewed in workflow.
Issues and actions. Tracks vendor remediation requests and documentation gaps to closure.
Reporting. Analyses vendor risk by category, geography, business unit or criticality tier with trend dashboards.
Industry reference
The Shared Assessments SIG questionnaire and NIST SP 800-161 define the assessment content the analyst works with: security, privacy, resilience and financial-viability questions scored against inherent risk tiers. Evidence such as SOC 2 reports and ISO 27001 certificates is validated rather than taken on trust.
Regulators test the file. Bank examiners apply the 2023 Interagency Guidance and, in the EU, DORA's register of information; healthcare organisations must hold business associate agreements under HIPAA; public sector buyers verify FedRAMP authorisations; technology companies document vendor reviews for their own SOC 2 and NIS2 obligations.
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