Director, ATO Governance

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

Summary of This Role

Manages the development, implementation, and enforcement of the compliance program as well as planning, directing, and administering risk management and loss prevention programs related to operating risk, insurance, and any class of financial risk. This may include establishing risk tolerance guidelines and policies and ensuring the risk exposure of the organization is within these guidelines. Ensures maximum protection of the organization's assets. Develops and implements business continuity plans enterprise-wide, where applicable. Conducts periodic audits to assess compliance levels. Develops processes for effective and efficient reporting and data analysis to minimize risk exposure. Consults on an ongoing basis on related issues with managers and executives. Ensures conformance with applicable laws and regulations and ensures regular training is conducted on compliance issues.

What Part Will You Play?

• Develops operational compliance policies and programs based on global regulatory guidelines, requirements and best practices for governance, data security, privacy, ethical business practices, and financial services industry standards. Evaluates changes to requirements and best practices to appropriately incorporate into policies and programs. Assesses, monitors and verifies implementation of compliant business processes.
• Controls, delivers and manages risk activities across the company. Leads the identification, examination and analysis of process designs, overall control effectiveness, risk mitigation. Improves operational assurance and risk practices. Enforces and administers an established and centralized risk management repository related to compliance, conformance and quantified key risks, within risk tolerance guidelines and with defined mitigation measures.
• Directs delivery and management of complex client assurance assignments to ensure positive outcomes. Acts as main contact for audit teams at a senior level, assesses and challenges scope, controls delivery of preaudit requests, and manages postaudit responses. Maintains the Audit Tracker. Briefs executives and provides input to contract negotiations and supports the Assurance Team on specialist audit matters.
• Controls and delivers business continuity planning. Drives the annual continuity plan review and desk top scenario exercise to deliver business resilience. Acts as the initial contact point for continuity incidents and coordinates the invocation of the Executive Incident Management. Leads continuity awareness and education initiatives across the business and maintains on-going interaction with the continuity team.
• Champions statutory compliance and ethical initiatives. Reviews and calibrates compliance test content with compliance team, drives test completion through the Business Unit Risk Management Coordinator (BURMC) community. Leads daily compliance monitoring activities. Acts as the subject matter expert for anti-bribery, data protection and data retention for internal and external inquiries. Coordinates Data Breach Task Force activities with the compliance team.
• Develops and provides business unit, executive, and Board of Director risk and compliance reporting that meets regulatory requirements and assists internal risk-based decision making via governance presentations. Directs the enterprise strategic risk assessment and writes the annual risk and compliance report which identifies gaps, emerging threats, financial exposure and client impact, and provides remediation action plans. Presents effective and efficient reporting updates on audit, regulatory, risk exposure, governance matters and IT service continuity priorities and procedures. Monitors significant risks to ensure they are actively managed and reported.
• Provides business compliance requirements documentation for network initiatives researches issues. Provides compliance guidance and responds to requests for assistance from the business and technology teams pertaining to compliance rules. Provides clarity pertaining to network enforcement policies and procedures. Ensures that company achieves and maintains network compliance certification status by facilitating and managing all aspects of processor-level testing and certification components.
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