Senior Director, Assurance, Risk, Compliance, and Integrity

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 18 years of professional experience.
  
• 3 years of experience in Audit or Compliance leadership roles in industry.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Relevant professional certifications (e.g., CIA, CISA, CMA, CA/CPA, etc.).
• Experience leading and transforming a global organization.
  
• Experience with compliance assurance in tech-driven organizations, performing risk assessments, and identifying associated controls across all areas of the business.
  
• Experience using analytically-driven testing techniques, excellent problem-solving skills, and ability to interpret regulatory requirements and assess their impact on business operations.
  
• Knowledge of regulations, compliance testing methodologies, and risk management principles.
  
• Excellent communication skills, ability to articulate compliance testing findings, risk assessments, and recommendations to management and stakeholders, and ability to engage, build, and maintain relationships with regulators and business partners.
  

About the job

With the widespread impact of AI technologies, the growth and diversification of our products, and the proliferation of new and at times fragmented laws and reporting requirements, we face one of the most exciting and challenging moments as a company. The newly formed Risk, Compliance, and Integrity organization (RCI) brings together critical compliance, assurance, risk and governance functions across Google to help the company meet compliance needs and enable our businesses to innovate. Our goal is to make compliance an advantage for Google by driving scaled, data-driven, and policy-based compliance programs. We manage our operations through risk-based prioritization and governance and consistent and constructive regulator engagement.

As Senior Director, you will be responsible for evolving and transforming Google’s Risk Assessment, Assurance, and Reporting programs to be more data-driven, risk-calibrated, and tech-enabled. You will be responsible for the monitoring and testing of controls, reporting on control documentation, efficacy, performance, metrics, analysis to identify trends/anomalies, developing associated programs, and monitoring and advisory of remediation activities. You will develop playbooks and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure assurance process excellence and effective utilization of vendor resources, partnering with stakeholders on process automation, optimization, and tooling. You will manage a global team including a Scaled Assurance Program, focused on managing assurance against a scaled set of controls, and a Regional and Domain Assurance Program, focused on regional and directive monitoring and testing and serving as a primary liaison between regional leadership and RCI.

Responsibilities

• Set and implement strategy to drive the overall transformation of Risk Assessment, Assurance, and Reporting programs to better leverage automation, data, analytics, and continuous monitoring. 
  
• Establish quality assurance processes and standards to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of compliance testing and risk assessment activities, including reviewing testing reports and findings.
  
• Lead the identification, assessment, and prioritization of compliance and operational risks, working closely with stakeholders to develop risk mitigation strategies and action plans.
  
• Develop strategic relationships with colleagues in other Product Areas, Regions, and our Internal Audit team to facilitate seamless testing and assurance and drive action against remediation plans. 
  
• Engage and maintain effective relationships with regulators, managing routine business-driven audits, reports, certifications, and partnering with Regulatory Affairs colleagues on government and regulator audits and exams.