Senior Manager - Financial Crime Risk Management

In this role, you will:

- Lead a high-performing team of testing and validation professionals with subject matter expertise in varying functions.

- Support development and maintenance of the Annual Test Plan, and escalate any delays, at-risk or past due reviews with engagement leadership.

- Provide governance and oversight for engagement planning, execution and reporting, and own stakeholder communications.

- Oversee consultations with key front line and second line stakeholders to understand business/control environment, emerging risks, and issue trends.

- Ensure teams execute testing and validation in an effective manner with high quality, according to IT&V Standards and Procedures and other applicable policies.

- Manage allocation of people to ensure adherence to role utilization targets.

- Oversee engagement execution, issues disposition, and action plan challenge activities providing support and guidance to the engagement team.

- Provide thoughtful credible challenge internally and to lines of business, cross-enterprise and across other corporate risk programs.

- Conduct detailed work-paper documentation reviews to ensure that quality standards are met and provide for an effective audit trail.

- Instill and maintain focus on execution quality producing deliverables within minimal rework and ownership and pride of work product output.

- Deliver ongoing updates to key business stakeholders on the status of the program and on specific reviews.

- Review and approve engagement-level reporting, communications, and oversee appropriate distribution, retention, and archival in accordance with IT&V Standards and Procedures.

Required Qualifications,

- 15+ years of Independent Testing, Internal Audit or equivalent

- 8+ years of Management experience.

Desired Qualifications:

- 10+ years of experience in risk management (includes compliance, financial crimes, operational risk, audit, legal, credit risk, market risk, business process management) or 10+ years of financial services industry experience, of which 10+ years must include direct experience in risk management; 8+ years of management experience.

- Extensive knowledge on Financial Crimes areas including anti-money laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Sanctions/Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

- Extensive experience designing and executing enterprise testing and validation programs, including the development of consistent standards and testing methodologies for compliance and operational risk testing, including RCSA.

- Experience supporting large complex business processes and initiatives across diverse lines of business within a bank or financial institution, products, and services.

- Understanding of law, rules and regulations regarding Financial Crimes that are integral and impacting the lines of business and products and services in scope.

- Expert-level knowledge of industry standards and best practices around monitoring, testing, assurance, and risk management processes, especially Financial Crimes related processes.

- Mature understanding of the ever-evolving governance and regulatory environments.

- Organizational courage and willingness to make tough, informed decisions and thoughtfully share independent perspectives and experiences.

- Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, coupled with an ability to translate ambiguous ideas/issues into well-defined plans/solutions with a track-record for delivering results.

- Effective communicator, both orally and in writing, able to ask well-crafted questions and present ideas in a clear and compelling manner, good listener.

- Ability to develop and articulate sound proposals to key stakeholders, and an ability to influence and drive timely decision making.

- Proven ability to cultivate relationships and collaborate with multiple stakeholders and constituencies, including business leaders, legal, audit and multiple U.S. and non-U.S. regulators.

- Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams, ensuring proper staffing and expertise, and manage the establishment of major policies and relevant compliance programs across major business divisions within a large and complex organization.

- Skilled in anticipating change, adjusting behavior to effectively handle rapid change, and the ability to adjust behavior to remain resilient through ambiguity or setbacks.

- Experience in leading others through change in order to proactively adapt.

- Adaptable to new methods, tools, and technology

- Ethical integrity and proven ability to serve as a role model by reinforcing and demonstrating to your employees the core values and behavioral expectations contained in Organization's Vision, Values & Goals.

One or more of the following certifications is desired:

- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

- Certified Financial Crimes Specialist (CFCS)

- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)

- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

- Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM)

- Certified Risk and Compliance Management Professional (CRCMP)

- Certified Risk Professional Program (CRP) For Testing and Validation Positions Only