Technology Risk Officer - VP

Responsibilities: 

• Help contribute to governance and the facilitation of the execution of the Manager Control Assessment (MCA, i.e. Risk & Control Self-Assessment) as required by the MCA Standard including the assessment and appropriate approval of risk associated with business changes. 

• Support teams in the quality, completeness, and accuracy of the implementation of the Control Framework, including Risk Control Policy, Control Standard, Issue Management Policy, Lesson Learned Policy and Control Inventory.

• Assist in performing a detailed analysis on the identification of issue root cause, partnering with control and process owners to recommendations holistic corrective actions and improvements, provide check and challenge to ensure appropriate escalation in according with Issue Management and Escalation Policies.

• Help contribute to the Lessons Learned Policy, including monitoring of control breaches and dissemination and learnings across other business units for process improvement to limit the occurrence of similar future events and where similar risk exposure might exist.

• Support the review and challenge process, within the FLUs, on the effective design and management of controls to mitigate risks as required by the Control Standards, including implementation and operation, conducting the control monitoring, handling deficiencies, and escalating issues for resolution. 

• Help contribute to the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of the MCA through controls prior to the execution of a process (QC).

• Assist in performing a detailed analysis to identify, assess, escalate, and manage risk exposures across Risk Categories (Operational Compliance, Strategic, Reputational, etc), including material, emerging and concentration risks in accordance with enterprise Policies and the establishment of Key Indicators to monitor risk exposures.

• Support with risk and control assessments or coordination for programs within various risk stripes and ensure sufficient subject matter expertise exists to enable management of these risks within the Business (e.g. third party, fraud, sanctions etc) (if applicable).

• Coordinate risk and control responsibilities and ensure accountabilities are embedded within FLUs, including providing training and leading by example.

• Support with standards and procedures that conform to enterprise requirements and support sound operational and compliance risk management.

• Apply knowledge of the business, products or services to identify and implement control points and processes throughout the business.

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made.

  
  

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of experience.

• MS Excel, MS Access, SAS, SQL, Visual Basic a plus. 5+ years’ experience in financial services.

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills

• Effective organizational influencing skills required.

• Third party vendor management preferred. Demonstrated ability to lead global team efforts

• Excellent problem-solving skills Ability to comprehend the big pictures with high attention to critical details

• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategy and process improvement initiatives.

  
  

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred.

  
  

Salary:

$120K/yr - $160K/yr