Control Manager, Vice President

We are seeking a Vice President to join our central Control Management team, where you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and strengthening our organization's control environment. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and innovate within a critical function, driving the execution of our control framework.

As a Vice President and Control Manager within the Central Control Management team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring a robust and consistent control environment throughout the organization. You will assist the Central Control Management team in overseeing and reporting on compliance and operational risk landscapes. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with diverse teams to identify and address compliance and operational risks, fostering a proactive risk and control culture, and offering leadership and innovative solutions for executing the risk and control self-assessment and to adhere to regulatory and internal policies, standards and procedures.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and support execution of the Control and Operational Risk Evaluation (risk and control self-assessment) framework through participation in process analysis to assess the central Control Management risk and control environment, identify control and/or data quality issues and understand their root causes, and review actions taken to remediate issues
• Verify controls are properly designed, operating effectively, and essential to a proactive risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols
• Perform ongoing analysis of risk and control program related data to identify and resolve issues
• Assess the impact of new or updated policies/standards/procedures, and technology solutions to understand changes to processes and verify compliance with evolving control requirements 
• Analyze recurring control weaknesses and monitor results and trends in other relevant indicators
• Evaluate, analyze and track issues and action plans to verify progress toward planned completion dates
• Lead review preparation and remediation efforts for Regulatory, Second Line and Internal Audit exams / reviews, providing control oversight and guidance to central Control Management partners 
• Implement firmwide control initiatives, as required
• Partner effectively with colleagues across the firm, including central Control Management, line of business and corporate function control managers, Risk Management & Compliance, Audit, Legal, and Technology 
• Provide regular updates to senior management on the control environment and firmwide control initiatives including preparing presentations and/or reports

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional experience in Control Management, Audit, Data Governance, Risk Management, Compliance, Finance, Operations, or a related field
• Demonstrate confident leadership with sound judgment, including the ability to multi-task, work well under pressure with commitment to deliver under tight deadlines 
• Robust analytical, problem-solving, and organizational and project management skills with keen attention to detail 
• High degree of initiative and self-direction - adaptable to shifting priorities; manages competing priorities to achieve the most effective result and able to work in a fast-paced, results driven environment.
• Strong, clear, and concise written and verbal communication, including influencing and presentation skills, with an ability to edit and prepare executive level communications
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong partnerships with colleagues and stakeholders at various levels, across multiple locations
• Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint)