Risk Audit & Client Engagement Senior Associate

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?  

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets.  We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact.  We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits 
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee). 

The impact you will have in this role:

Being a member of the Engagement function, the Associate Director will be the primary internal interface between Group Chief Risk Office and DTCC organizations to facilitate responses to client, regulatory, and audit queries on operational and technology risk controls. This function facilitates coordinated, consistent, timely and accurate responses to clients, its regulators, internal and external audit partners by becoming trusted partners with their stakeholders.

Risk, Audit, Client and Regulatory Engagement assists in providing the strategic vision and tactical execution of DTCC advocacy and thought leadership in cybersecurity, resilience, and new and emerging technology risk. In this capacity, Risk, Audit, Client and Regulatory Engagement advocates for specific regulatory and legislative outcomes in these areas through engaging financial authorities and institutions on key risk issues and its partnerships with industry groups and trade associations. External Engagements is responsible for providing the interface between Operational and Technology Risk (OTR) subject matter experts and DTCC clients, auditors, and financial examiners to facilitate information and evidence sharing resulting from questionnaires and examination requests. External Engagement is responsible for the execution of the DTCC Client Cyber Program, an assurance program designed to provide reasonable assurance that DTCC Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU) clients are using an industry-accepted cybersecurity framework to manage its cybersecurity risks.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for completion of assigned deliverables within assigned Risk, Audit, Client and Regulatory Engagement timeframes.
• Identify and communicate potential enhancements to existing processes that may effectively anticipate, manage, and reduce risk to DTCC and its members and participants. Organize personal and teamwork-load to meet key team or program objectives.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills when completing complex tasks and functions. Act autonomously on most decisions.
• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills with peers, stakeholders and management.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders e.g., Regulatory Relations, OTR.
• Partner with senior management to identify and prepare metrics that drive the team's goals and opportunities.
• Cross train on other functions within the team to achieve team and firm goals.
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

**NOTE:  The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree (preferred) or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
• Stays current on changes in his/her own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up to date.
• Invests effort to individually coach others.
• Builds collaborative teams across the organization.
• Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization informed.

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where