As the first line of defense Control Management protects and defends the firm against operational, regulatory, and reputational risk.
You will be providing guidance on the operational risks pertaining to merger, acquisition, and an opportunity to drive process improvements and proactively identify and assess high profile issues of utmost importance to C-suite level committees.
Job summary
As a Control Management, Associate, you will be aligned to supportteam which is an integrated team focused on maintaining a strong and consistent control environment for Operations. As a control manager, you will focus on a specific function of operations (e.g. Middle office, Client Operations and Regulatory Reporting) where you will be responsible for risk identification and assessment, control design and evaluation, issues and control deficiencies.
Job responsibilities:
- Develop, enhance, and monitor the risk and control framework
- Enable strategic initiatives by providing risk and control design expertise and navigational assistance to help connect the dots across the line of business
- Advise and influence senior leaders / business executives on key decisions and major risk and control initiatives
- Perform walkthroughs and assist critical lines of business with process mapping and risk identification, designing the controls framework and testing the controls
- Ensure operational practices are in compliance with relevant risk standards, policies and regulations to maintain an effective control environment
- Monitoring and assessment of operational risk and control environment
- Perform issue/action plan workflow end-to-end, including root cause analysis and working with your business and impacted stakeholders to develop them and to validate the remediation
- Identify meaningful metrics to inform on the health of the operational risk and control environment
- Develop enhanced reporting for controls through use of automation, if required
- Identify, assess, advise, and drive strategic solutions to increase efficiency and create a more resilient operating environment
- Collaborate with senior business clients and partners across functional areas (e.g., Legal, Finance, Compliance, Risk) and geographies
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics or other related disciplines
- Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in the financial services industry or background in Process Improvement or Risk Management
- Proficiency working in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- A curious mind that prefers to go deep to understand details
- A positive attitude and team spirit with exceptional interpersonal and collaboration skills