Lead Control Management Officer

About this role:

Desired Qualifications:

• Executes and implements business control priorities and strategy; drive the control agenda across the business.

• Act as an advisor to more experienced leaders in developing risk mitigation strategies for complex and highly integrated business specific risk across different business lines

• Evaluates and provides strategic guidance for programs, policies and procedures to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements and risk strategies.

• Identify and recommend Business Controls opportunities for process improvement and risk control development by managing and directing teams on strategy and execution of activities

• Supports to the business for the design of business-specific risk controls/processes and development of remediation plans to address any control weaknesses or gaps and identifies opportunities for enhancements.

• Ensures that business control issues are proactively identified and addressed appropriately, escalating where necessary.

• Oversees programs or initiatives related to a line of business and/or an Enterprise strategy with considerable impact across the Enterprise and externally.

• Determine appropriate strategies and actions of Business Controls functional area to meet moderate to high-risk deliverables by ensuring that all business risk issues are proactively identified and addressed appropriately

• Key interface and fosters relationships with corporate, business heads, Corporate Risk, Legal, Audit, regulators, and industry partners regarding risk management of business-specific risk programs

• Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA)

• Perform process walk throughs, as needed, to identify and raise self-identified issues and heighten Issue Management discipline in the frontline. Facilitate workshops for aligned business verticals or trigger events in BAU, Review and Challenge Board prep, Suite of Controls reviews post workshop and day to day in BAU, Conduct NBI Review, Day-to-day contact for business or enterprise function

• Issue Management Support: Conduct weekly issue meetings with business partner(s) inclusive of designed strategy to remediate issues which garner residual risk reduction, Review and approve PVCs, issues, CAs, ISMs and tollgate documents, Conduct thematic analysis across assigned vertical as well as with peers, Facilitate Tollgates, Review issue status updates

• Transition Control Related Reviews: Perform reviews on transitions per Transition Framework, Controls opinion/acknowledgement, Second-line engagements etc.

• Control Design & Evaluation: Assesses controls to ensure appropriately mitigates risk, Partners with BG/EF to appropriately design controls and QA/QC monitoring activities, Partner with business process owners in process and control design

• Governance & Reporting Routines: Establish Controls governance/reporting routines to provide Risk & Controls landscape view and escalate issues as appropriate. Identify emerging risks or escalations that require IP CLCC/ Risk & Control Committee review, Provides root cause analysis and plans actions for breaches of defined reporting triggers, Partners with BG/EF leaders to develop Risk & Control Governance Committee and forum materials/discussion items, Participates in the BG/EF design of key metrics to oversee business risk, Facilitate other front-line governance activities

• Advisory role: Provide input into enterprise policies and procedures, Key business initiatives and continue to engage in Risk & control management discussions with the LOB Functions, Business partners and Operations

• During the recruiting process you may be considered for a role based on your expertise in a particular Control LOB. Additionally, each business has a specific location strategy, therefore your candidacy may be determined based on your current location. Remote work locations are not available for these roles so if you are not in a location listed on the posting, you must commit to relocation within an agreed upon timeframe

• 5+ years of overall experience in Risk Management or Financial Services industry, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

• Knowledge and a broad background in Corporate and Investment Banking

• Experience in Operational Risk Management

• Experience in assessing risk, reviewing risk ratings, and identifying control deficiencies.

• Adaptable to a dynamic work environment with multiple priorities and strict timelines and able to organize for responsiveness and efficiency

• Proven ability to work within a team environment as well as individual accountability

• Ability to make timely and independent judgment decisions while working in a fast-paced and results-driven environment. Propensity to deliver high quality output

• Ability to synthesize data from a variety of sources and deliver results quickly.

• Novice negotiation skills include the willingness and ability to question decisions, understand direction and escalate issues, where necessary.

• Experience evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of policies, procedures, processes, systems, and internal controls; additional experience analyzing business and/or systems changes to determine impact.

• Familiar with various quality assurance techniques, issue verification frameworks and role of issue oversight, Audit, or internal controls assessment experience

• Understanding of US banking regulatory requirements. Applies product/domain knowledge to improve/add value to the processes, Line of defense Structure

• Experience working in a matrixed environment and the ability to effectively manage and build relationships

• Ethical integrity and demonstrated ability to identify risks and confidently raise issues, escalate early and engage in constructive challenge, doing so independently

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*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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