Business Controls & Testing Senior Manager

Business Controls & Testing Senior Manager

Requirements

• 8+ years of related experience in Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Internal Audit or similar field.
• Bachelor’s degree in related field required.
• Previous leadership experience required.
• Advanced knowledge of general banking operations, including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services.
• Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Advanced experience in Compliance, Operations Management, Audit, Risk Management, or related field.
• Advanced analytical skills to determine key areas of focus, summary of meetings and key decisions and actions.
• Advanced knowledge of and experience in documenting process maps in process mapping software.
• Advanced experience identifying risks and controls in processes and performing/guiding risk and control self assessments and other risk management activities.
• Expert speaking and writing communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive the preparation and execution of the Risk and Control updates and refresh information for moderate to highly complex business functions through collection of data from various sources as defined in desktop procedures.
• Develop and execute plan to ensure timeliness of risk management processes with business stakeholders; ensure common understanding of activities and milestones with all parties involved.
• Review policies and procedures to identify and document process maps, risks/controls and narratives and/or guide analysts in this activity.
• Identify, confirm and challenge risks and controls in processes under review including the drafting of risks and controls in line with standards.
• Guide and challenge assessment of control environment and determine effective risk mitigation or identification of gaps.
• Leads and challenges conversations with risk subject matter experts about the context and/or severity of risk factors and/or issues.
• Conduct and oversee meetings with clear objectives, outcomes, and follow-up items.
• Understand department’s role in risk management and is able to communicate the importance of different stakeholders and risk management in general.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
• Participate in developing and enhancing the Control Testing Methodology and Standards for business unit testing and reporting.
• Provide briefings as necessary and insight to the Control environment health, and on a quarterly basis to 1st & 2nd line business partners.
• Proactive engagement with issue management functions to ensure understanding of the First Line of Defense governance program.
• Focus on continuous control improvements across all areas to enable the evolutionary design of the overall control framework in an efficient, cost effective, streamlined, and value-add manner.
• Maintains all required documentation per Procedures and Standards to showcase progress and completion of risk & control inventory and RCSA activities.
• Lead and develop a team; responsible for hiring, coaching, performance management, training and development.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.