Minimum expectations and responsibilities:
- Effective Test / Monitoring / Issue Validations execution (Timeliness and Quality)
- Effective Oral and Written communication (includes effective interactions / communication with CCOR, Controls and Business partners, both written and oral)
- Ability to think out of the box and design tests that target risks and yield issues
- Senior Stakeholder Management (i.e., engaging / interacting / reporting back to CCOR, Controls and Business Stakeholders)
- Executive Presence (i.e., work well under pressure, communicate clearly and have a confident body language
- Ability to navigate the system and escalate as necessary
- Good understanding of Automation Tools and capabilities
- Innovation / Creativity/ Automation – Ability to Challenge the Norm
- Contributes towards initiatives (outside of BAU and of Global nature)
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Minimum 8 years to 12+ years of relevant experience in the financial services industry in Know Your Customer(KYC), Compliance, Risk management, Audit.
- Understanding of KYC, Sanctions, Screening, Transaction Monitoring, Suspicious Activity Reporting, and Tax evasions.
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in one or a combination of the following: Finance, Accounting, Analytics, or Reporting will also act as an added advantage.
- Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment.
- Ability to perform end to end reviews of processes, think through various risks, understand applicability of different regulations and policies and ultimately be able to identify gaps / risks in operating environment.
- Ability to innovate, challenge the status quo and identify automation / process re-engineering opportunities with good knowledge of control design and root cause analysis.
- Strong project management skills, experience working with complex data sets and environments, drawing conclusions and reporting findings.
- Strong relationship building skills to influence/negotiate desired outcomes. Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively with colleagues and senior management. Strong verbal/written communication.
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to manage expectations and competing priorities, be enthusiastic, have willingness to adapt in a fast-paced environment, understand sense of urgency, be effective under pressure.
- Extensive experience in designing and executing control testing programs, including the development of consistent standards and methodologies shall be desirable.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Any related certifications viz. CAMS, FRM, CIA, CISA, etc.