Director Business Risk - HR

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Job Description:

What You'll Do

Responsible for identifying risk and driving strategies to manage it. Liaison to the enterprise-wide Legal, Compliance and Corporate Risk functions. Develops business-unit specific approaches and ensure accurate and timely implementation across all risk management disciplines and all areas in the organization. Directs process design, control work flow/systems, reporting, testing, remediation and third party management.

Creates a culture of effective risk management, accountability, and demonstration of risk awareness across the organization.

How You'll Do It

• Responsible for developing and executing risk assessments. Provides education and risk guidance to business partners and ensures policies, standards, procedures, risks and controls are implemented, monitored and executed as required; Ensuring changes in laws and regulation are properly embedded into the control environment; Oversees development and implementation of job aids and tools to facilitate efficient completion of policy and standard requirements; Ensures effective identification and implementation of controls to manage operational, financial and compliance risks; Develops efficient processes to maintain an accurate library of risks and controls; Provide independent post-launch oversight of initiatives and report results to management; Oversees timely completion of control design reviews and compliance risk assessments; Monitors the risk and control environment for weaknesses and identify solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of controls; and Oversees timely completion of control testing (BUTM) plan.

• Provides education and monitor employees on requirements of company policies and standards related to Risk Reporting, Operational Risk Events, Root Cause Analysis, and Issues Management; Oversees development and implementation of job aids and tools to facilitate efficient completion of policy and standard requirements; monthly risk reports; discuss results with Sr. Leadership; Oversees timely completion of remediation projects and Ensures a detailed escalation plan is in place for risk issues and leveraged when necessary.

• Oversees timely completion of complex projects in the areas of Exam Management, Control Workflow and Standardization Solutions, Departmental Continuous Improvement; Oversees development, implementation and administration control standardization and workflow solutions; Oversees development of continuous monitoring exception reports for critical business processes.

• Maintains a highly engaged, development focused team; Adheres to established Leader Standard Work schedule (Coaching, Floor Walks, Process Confirmations); Reviews DMS barometer results and develop action plans for negative engagement trends; Models DMS/Shingo principles and coach team on principles they should focus on improving.

Qualifications You'll Need

The Basics

• Bachelors in Business Administration, Management, Engineering, Arts, Social Sciences, Information Technology or equivalent

• 8+ years of general business experience or related experience

• 15+ years audit, compliance, risk management, regulatory, financial services marketing or financial services operations

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily move about the work environment.

• Occasionally move about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Masters in Business Administration, Management, Information Technology or Engineering

• 2+ years People leade