Job Responsibilities:
- Building and leading a high performing business assurance function, proactively identifying emerging operational risks, conducting sampling to ensure change is absorbed by contact centre teams and lead the resolution of any gaps you uncover
- Overlay your technology, process management and operational risk skills to develop and influence changes to the control environment maximising automation and minimising risk
- Identify control gaps, weaknesses, and resolutions in order to reduce financial loss, regulatory exposure, and reputational risk
- Provide ongoing feedback and training as well as support the growth of employees' knowledge of risk concepts and their application to risk and control evaluation
- Engage & support Operational Leaderships Teams, driving governance, developing operating pattern & evolving team structure to drive ownership and optimise talent
- Act as a facilitator and support the Operational Leadership Teams during audits and tests, staying up to date with progress and using the outputs to support your pipeline of activity
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- Relevant and demonstrable financial service experience in controls, audit, quality assurance, risk management, or compliance
- Proficient knowledge of control and risk management concepts with the ability to design, create and evaluate the operational risk and control environment in conjunction with business partners
- Experience of change management in banking product, or contact centre operations
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
- Knowledge of banking regulatory environment
- Extensive stakeholder management working with global teams
- Ability to analyse data-driven situations to formulate appropriate conclusions
- Experience in leading and managing teams
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- Experience of project management tools such as JIRA
- Understanding, and implementation of, automation and AI to deliver control automation reduction of risk would be an advantage
- Experience of Contact Centre Operations