Assurance Manager - BFSI

Key Account abilities / Decision making and Problem Solving

- Provide guidance, support and independent assurance to Leadership in the remediation of controls, confirming whether they have been effectively designed, can be evidenced as operating effectively and are embedded.

- Meet the needs of key internal and external risk processes, reporting schedules, stakeholders and regulatory authorities in delivering assurance activities.

- Evaluate, report and escalate risks in line with risk and control frameworks.

- Provide an opinion as to whether risks have been fully mitigated and whether implemented controls are sustainable.

- Conduct risk assignments in line with Policies and Standards, associated tools / methods and quality levels ensuring compliance to Operational Risk framework(s) and emerging requirements.

- Contribute to the continued involvement and embedding of the target operating model for the Issue Closure Assurance team.

- Proactively manage Stakeholder expectations to promote an understanding and achievement of risk management objectives, ensuring awareness of responsibilities regarding risk and control.

Person Specification

- Strong analytical abilities, with a methodical approach, sound judgement and close attention to detail

- Problem solving ability to think unconventionally and find solutions to unstructured problems

- Ability to network and establish rapport with internal colleagues across global teams

- Strong project management and organisational skills

- Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate difficult or complex ideas clearly and constructively

- Collaborative, able to drive agreement across varying stakeholders

- Confident in negotiating and influencing colleagues or stakeholders

- Self-starter

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

- Knowledge of business or technology risk and control including relevant tools and techniques

- Proven experience of working within the finance industry / business or technology control frameworks and approaches

- Experience in one or more of the following - audit, Risk and Control, IT Security

- Strong knowledge of key areas in business or technology risk, including operations, change, security, resilience at both application and infrastructure layers

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

- Business/IT degree or equivalent

- Specialist Risk Qualification formal accreditation/qualifications relating to audit, risk and control e.g. CISA, CISSP, CISM, ITIL etc.