Control Managers assist with the design and assessment of effectiveness of controls across CIB Finance. Responsibilities include ensuring CIB Finance has a sustainable and disciplined end-to-end control environment, identifying and escalating issues with a sense of urgency, and partnering with the business to ensure issues are remediated in a timely manner. The team assists in top-down risk analysis, control issue detection, escalation, root cause analysis, and remediation. They have responsibility for quality assurance activities (including independent review of financial disclosures and regulatory reporting) and controls related to applicable Firmwide policies / standards.
Primary responsibilities:
- Partner with Asia legal entity controllers on Issue and Error management of external financial reporting process in CIB Finance, including root cause analysis, identification of control gaps and remediation follow up.
- Review, challenge and/or test existing controls.
- Support and execute BAU Office of Legal Obligations program for CIB Finance.
- Support Asia Finance control forums including providing the agenda and material, liaison with legal entity controllers, product controllers and functional finance representatives, recording actions and ensuring appropriate follow-up.
- Develop and enhance the existing governance within Asia legal entity controllers including new policies and procedures, process enhancement, building and maintaining a robust governance framework.
- Participate in regional and global controls initiatives and projects, where applicable.
- Provide local people management leadership responsibilities for CIB Finance Control function in Bengaluru.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or other related discipline.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in Finance, Compliance or in risk and control functions.
- Strong Accounting and Business Analysis skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, comfortable interacting with cross business and functional partners.
- Good project management and strong influencing skills.
- Self-starter, independent worker who thinks out of the box and ability to multitask.
- Excellent organizational and follow through skills; detail oriented.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Legal entity control and/or external audit experience preferred.