Sr. Associate Director, Controls

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Controls.

Business: SecSvcs & Digital Assets Tech

Job ID: 58798

Principal responsibilities:

• Drive a proactive risk culture, shifting focus from remediation to prevention through thematic reviews and departmental training.
• Support the departmental external Assurance obligations, including ISAE 3402.
• Consult on projects, providing subject matter expertise during audits
• Share best practise with the CIB Risk and Control Organisation
• Provide training sessions for key staff to uplift risk awareness
• Provide guidance and help to delivery teams in regards to security solutions to enable faster delivery of Systems
• Collaborating with project teams working closely in a DevOps and agile development processes
• Partner with the CIB business areas and Risk Functions to promote and provide guidance to relevant policies, standards and governance within CIB
• Provide regional stakeholder updates with respect to Control uplift programs
• Support engagement with internal / external / client audit and Regulatory Exams, including oversight of field work, collation of artefacts and partnership with CCO to remediate issues
• Attend relevant regional governance forums and where applicable provide appropriate MI
• Communicate residual risk through reporting, business governance processes and forums
• Own the risk & control agenda for region
• Lead the delivery of risk & control projects and programmes for the region
• Assist service/project owners in responding appropriately and effectively to firm-wide risk, cyber and corporate control initiatives
• Partner with service owners and Asset Class RCOs to identify and assess controls, determine mitigating actions and remediation activities, and understand the overall risk profile
• Advocate and support initiatives to improve accuracy across all Enterprise Golden Source data repositories
• Provide visibility of status of action plans and external/internal audit issues
• Drive ownership and accountability for Risk Issue and Action Plan Ownership within region
• Challenge where appropriate, decisions made on control implementation
• Review allocation of issues to SSV sectors and agree categorization of high/medium/low
• Approve the raising and closure of regional IT issues, action plans, but look to automate process
• Fulfil DBIRO responsibilities for the region
• Advocate security policies and standards to the respective region
• Integrate into the development process, attending scrums and owning security use cases and stories
• Support initial risk assessment process and providing consultancy and guidance
• Support where necessary key CIB security uplift initiatives
• Contribute to review of security standards and procedures

Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications:

• Proven experience in technology risk and controls within a complex, regulated environment.
• Strong background in third party risk management, including oversight of internal service agreements and associated controls/monitoring.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and influence stakeholders up to executive level.
• Extensive client-facing experience, including due diligence, assurance, and audit activities.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex risk topics to diverse audiences.
• Experience acting as a deputy or second-in-command within a risk, assurance, or due diligence function is highly desirable.
• Influencing skills.
• Stakeholder management.
• General interest in Technology including awareness of trends.

What additional skills will be good to have?

• Consult on projects, providing subject matter expertise during audits and regulatory exams.
• Share best practices with the wider Risk and Control Organisation.
• Support engagement with internal/external/client audit and regulatory exams, including oversight of fieldwork and remediation.
• Advocate for continuous improvement in data accuracy and control effectiveness across all enterprise data repositories.

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