Controls Governance_Associate

AWM Governance Centre of Excellence (COE) in partnership with business, Operations and Controls are responsible to oversees AWM wide Control Programs that impact the various businesses under the AWM umbrella. These would include preparation of control metrics and reporting for senior Business Control Committee (BCC), providing critical analysis reporting, executing regulatory mandates or establishing new control frameworks.

The Governance Team plays an integral role in managing risk by facilitating solutions to complex problems that is not confined to one sub-line of business. Drive automation to deliver solutions across governance and reporting landscape.

Role Description:

Prepare control metrics and reporting for Business Control Committee, Business Control Meeting, Control Review Meeting, etc.  Provide critical analysis reporting, executing regulatory mandates, establish new control frameworks. Assist in managing by facilitate solutions to complex problems that is not confined to one sub-line of business. Maintain regulatory change inventory to provide governance support to Regulatory Change Forum. Drive automation to deliver solutions across governance and reporting landscape. Assist with control governance and reporting strategy to identify meaningful metrics to inform on health of operation risk and control environment; escalate control deficiencies based on key reporting indicators. Contribute to the coordination and implementation of various strategic control reporting and analytics initiatives. Engage with control colleagues across the firm, business, operations management, legal, compliance, risk, audit, regulators and technology control functions. Create a proactive risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols.

Required Qualification, Skills and Capabilities:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred. 5+ years of financial service experience in controls, analytics and reporting, operations, audit, assurance, risk management, or compliance preferred. Proficient knowledge of control and risk management concepts with the ability to design, create and evaluate the operational risk and control environment. Any experience/proficiency with BI and visualization tools (.- Alteryx, Tableau, Qlickview) and database management tools (.- SQL, Microsoft Access) is a plus. Business knowledge (ability to understand business/knowledge of regulations surrounding business), Communication/Presentation (excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence business leaders in a meaningful and actionable manner), networking, work autonomously to affect change, process analysis/design acumen, problem solving/analytical skills.

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