Senior Director, First Line of Defense Controls Lead

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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Director, First Line of Defense Controls Lead to join our Payments Enablement Platform team. This role is located in New York, NY

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: 

Risk Reporting & Analytics:​

• Leverage data-driven insights and anomaly detection to identify control weaknesses and forecast potential risks before they materialize​
• Drive automation, AI-assisted analytics to improve efficiency and generation of insights​
• Promote consistent measurement and reporting using a unified data model ​

Control Governance & Frameworks:​

• Contribute to the management and governance and oversight of firm-wide to plan, coordinate, and track the implementation of the policy standards and suggest enhancement of the control environment.
• Embed strong control routines that reinforce good risk hygiene, ensuring compliance with policies, regulations, and best practices​
• Lead adoption of the Enterprise-Wide Risk Framework (e.g. RCSA, HLA, KRI) across the Platform​
• Monitor metrics​
• Risk review / risk & control committee​

Process & Control Design: ​

• Analyze existing and proposed legislation, regulatory announcements and industry practices in order to execute a robust and effective process 
• Implementing and executing procedures to meet existing and upcoming regulatory requirements, expectations and industry standards.
• Champion technology-enabled controls and digital capabilities that simplify execution and improve resilience​
• Integrate control outcomes into business planning, ensuring commercial alignment​

Risk Culture & Communication: ​

• Establish partnerships with Risk & Compliance to anticipate emerging risks and drive timely escalation of material issuer risk fluency and accountability across all Platform members​
• Influence Platform strategy by translating emerging risk themes and external developments into forward-looking actions​
• Align priorities with risk appetite, ensuring risk is managed to enable business outcomes​

Incident Triage, Control Assessments, Issue Management:​

• Lead and embed a culture of proactive issue remediation and root-cause analysis​

Control Assurance & Monitoring: ​

• Verify compliance with complex regulatory and policy requirements; make recommendations on compliance evolving industry standards.
• Drives standardization and simplification across control processes ​
• Partner with Controls Hub to modernize assurance activities and enhance transparency through real-time control monitoring​
• Streamline assurance and review cycles through process automation and scalable practices

 

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• 15+ years of total work experience, with 7+ years of management experience, preferred. 
• Financial Services, Audit or Compliance background and/or experience Deep understanding of predictive Risk & Control frameworks, regulatory expectations, and control design​ preferred
• Ability to understand multiple risk types and their impact; business, operational and legal 
• Proven ability to translate regulatory and business complexity into pragmatic, risk-based solutions​
• Skilled at interpreting control data, identifying anomalies, and leveraging reporting for insights​
• Builds trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the business and lines of defense​
• Skilled at framing risk insights to inform business decisions and promote accountability ​

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