Director, Platform Control Manager

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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Director - Platform Control Manager 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 action.
• 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.
• Models a continuous improvement mindset, ensuring consistency, transparency, and measurable performance. 
• Anticipates emerging risks and industry shifts; does not wait for issues to surface before acting.
• Seeks to identify control trends and insights early through data, analytics, and pattern recognition.
• Views risk as a strategic