Risk and Controls Lead
Risk and Controls Lead
As part of the Business Controls team, the Risk & Controls Lead is responsible for ensuring strong risk mitigation governance and maintaining process-level controls inventory. This role involves proactively identifying opportunities for enhancing or implementing additional controls.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify potential business risks, process deficiencies, and gaps in risk management standards.
- Present gap assessment outcomes and remediation plans to leadership.
- Conduct process deep dives to document existing controls and identify gaps, particularly in relation to consumer regulatory requirements.
- Participate in cross-functional working groups to enhance risk management frameworks.
- Lead cross-functional project management efforts.
- Collaborate with compliance to map regulatory requirements to specific processes and controls.
- Drive continuous improvements in the control framework to meet changing requirements and ensure visibility to executives.
- Communicate effectively with other teams to address errors and implement corrective actions.
- Contribute to executive reporting and data-driven deliverables.
- Lead improvements to product and process execution based on root cause analysis.
- Present impact of improvements to senior leadership.
- Work with all lines of defense on large-scale projects affecting the entire firm.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of experience in operational risk, controls, process improvement, or related fields.
- Strong critical thinking, project management, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to provide effective challenge and alternative perspectives.
- Passion for root cause analysis and troubleshooting process failures.
- Experience in building reports and presentations.
- Proficiency in Microsoft tools (SharePoint, Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in consumer banking, particularly in operational risk, compliance, or process improvement.
- Knowledge of financial, operational, compliance, and reputation risks.
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