Country Controls Assessment and Testing Team Lead

• Support CTU by leading a team responsible for assessing control design, designing control testing and monitoring tools, developing control assessment procedures, ensuring control assessment transitions, dispositioning exceptions, and developing insights for in-country controls
• Carry key responsibility for defining the work plan and resolving escalations
• Oversee and perform decision-making of Control Design Assessments (CDAs), Monitoring and Testing Design Assessments (MTDAs) and testing activity
• Develop and drive quality-checking routines to ensure compliance with all relevant policies, operating guides, and owned control assessments
• Accountability for the adequacy and effectiveness of CDA, OEM and OET Execution
• Handle control assessment interactions with senior managers at Director or Managing Director levels
• Maintain relationships and drive accountability with partners and stakeholders to drive control assessment success
• Represent/ provide input into control testing in senior meetings as needed
• Work with colleagues in other areas of Risk Management, Compliance/Control, and the Businesses / Functions to assure appropriate management of risks
• Oversee the application of operational risk policies, technology and tools, and governance processes to create lasting solutions for detecting unmitigated risks
• Approve assessment procedures in Confluence
• Maintain resource forecast for own team
• Support team members on topics ranging from testing design and execution to performance management
• Help drive continuous improvements in accuracy, efficiency, timeliness, and quality of MCA control testing
• Set ambitious and measurable control testing goals for self and Team
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made
• Support other relevant work efforts of department where needed
• Proactively foster a strong culture of risk and control awareness

• Experience managing risk in a first line role or experience in a second- or third-line assurance or testing role
• Good understanding and experience of Financial Services products and service and distribution channels
• Subject matter expert on controls design, execution, and/or control testing
• Advanced skills in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS SharePoint
• Effective communication, written and presentation skills
• Outstanding people and relationship management skills with the ability to influence others and foster a sense of collaboration
• Demonstrated analytical ability
• Independent thinker and able to provide value-adding credible challenge to Businesses/Functions
• Proficient in developing new ideas to mitigate risk and improve current processes
• Prioritizes high impact potential problems effectively
• Well-versed in reviewing the dimensions of risk
• Demonstrates Leadership skills with an understanding and appreciation for diverse backgrounds
• Ability to balance strategic priorities with tactical actions
• Excellent communication skills required to negotiate internally, often at a senior level
• Able to work effectively virtually, including across different geographies and time zones preferred
• Experience of human-centered control design is an advantage
• University degree preferred

Experience of human-centered control design is an advantage