Job Responsibilities:
- Be a part of a proactive risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols. Lead others when required.
- Engage with HR business leaders to understand the business structure, assess business strategies and processes, guide risk management, and understand opportunities to make process improvements
- Evaluate the execution and effectiveness of processes and controls; Identify trends and take action to remediate gaps to enhance the quality of HR products and services
- Provide trusted leadership support for the end-to-end execution of the Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA), including control gaps, weaknesses and resolutions, risk event citations, and issue resolution to reduce financial loss, regulatory exposure, and reputational risk
- Review and analyze program related data (e.g., key risk indicators / key performance indicators) to support business-related programs and strategies
- Engage with control colleagues, business leaders, operations management, legal, compliance, risk, audit, regulators, and technology control functions across the firm
Required skills, qualifications, and capabilities:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
- 5+ years of financial service experience in controls, audit, quality assurance, risk management, or compliance
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
Preferred skills, qualifications, and capabilities:
- Expertise in control and risk management concepts with the ability to design, create, and evaluate a Risk & Control Self-Assessment in collaboration with business partners
- Flexible communication style with ability to engage at a senior level, including excellent influencing, negotiation, persuasion and collaboration skills
- Ability to assess risk from multiple perspectives (Legal/Regulatory/Operational/Client & Reputational) and then have meaningful business conversations, grounded in materiality and practical application
- Ability to interrogate a process and control in order to identify risk reduction opportunities. And then collaborate with owners to solve through innovative technical rather than human solutions (where possible)
- Tenacity to challenge the way we do things, especially in the face of opposition or rejection of viewpoint
- Excellent change management, decision making, problem solving, continuous improvement, executive communication and teamwork skills
- Digitalization / gaming mindset: Identifying and recommending opportunities for process improvement and simplification through automation