Director - Risk Assurance - Operational Control Segment - Bank

Director - Risk Assurance, Operational Controls

Tenured VP/Existing Director

Overall purpose of role:

Leadership of Conformance activity that provides independent assurance for various disciplines across risk in requiring the input and collaboration of a large set of senior stakeholders within Risk and across the Bank.

Key Accountabilities:

- Assist the Head of Assurance in development of the Assurance plan and resource allocation and proactive execution of the plan, in particular, supporting the Head of LRR Conformance in development and execution of the LRR Conformance plan.

- Build a Conformance Centre of Excellence at offshore location and upskill the staff for the delivery of Conformance Reviews.

- Lead the more complex and high-profile conformance reviews.

- Support the conformance team by directing, reviewing and challenging conformance review work where required in particular during fieldwork and reporting stages.

- Manage on-going key stakeholder relationships with appropriate risk heads, Assurance Heads.

- Assist with the personal development of team members to develop a highly motivated and experienced team.

- Act as a role model and drive proactive application of Values throughout the team including establishment of common goals and objectives.

- Ensure that the Conformance team works together in support of sharing of generic issues.

- Work closely with Business Units and Risk to embed operational rigour, good practice and performance improvements.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership:

- Role holder is required to partner with various Teams within Risk to make effective control recommendations to Senior Risk Officers meeting the set requirements for LRR.

Decision-making and Problem Solving:

- Role holder will be responsible for making decisions on the management of Assurance agenda for Conformance Centre of Excellence including but not limited to partnering with other Conformance Directors to remain consistent in the Assurance approach and manage escalations to the Risk Senior Management.

- Role holder should have a sound knowledge of Banking processes, strong knowledge of at least one Principal Risk and understanding of Assurance process.

- Role holder is preferred to have proven experience of implementing, testing against risk and controls frameworks and testing methodologies.