Enterprise Policy Governance Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Partners with policy owners to develop, review, update, and maintain enterprise policies, standards, and committee charters in accordance with the Enterprise Policy Governance Framework.

• Coordinates policy lifecycle activities, including drafting, review, approval, publication, maintenance, and periodic review requirements.

• Facilitates stakeholder review and challenge processes to ensure enterprise policies receive appropriate review and input.

• Prepares materials to support the review and approval of enterprise policies through governance committees, including the Enterprise Risk Management Committee and, when required, the Board of Directors or its committees.

• Supports policy publication and communication activities, including documenting and communicating substantive policy changes to associates.

• Maintains policy governance records, inventories, metrics, and reporting to support effective program administration and oversight.

• Collaborates with stakeholders to identify policy gaps and support updates driven by regulatory, business, and organizational changes.

• Supports the administration and continuous improvement of policy governance processes, procedures, and supporting documentation.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge of:

• Policy governance strategy, implementation, and oversight of a firm-wide program.

• Project management and business process methodologies, tools, and practices.

• Strategic planning processes and tools and methodologies for strategy formulation.

• Compliance obligations, industry rules and regulations, and legal general procedures in the financial services industry.

• Concepts, practices, and procedures of the financial services industry.

• Bank holding company and retail broker dealer clearing firm operations.

Skill in:

• Experience drafting documents, including reviewing, and editing.

• Drafting policies.

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills to professionally address a wide and varied audience, including executive management, both internally and externally.

• Organizational and time management skills sufficient to handle multiple priorities in a fast paced and ever-changing environment.

• Project management skills and experience sufficient to successfully complete long and short-term projects.

• Operating standard office equipment and using required software application to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets, and databases.

Ability to:

• Partner with other functional areas to accomplish objectives.

• Organize, prioritize, manage, and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.

• Use appropriate interpersonal styles and communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels to accomplish objectives.

• Work independently as well as collaboratively within a team environment.

• Attend to detail while maintaining a big picture orientation.

• Facilitate meetings, ensuring that all viewpoints, ideas, and problems are addressed.

• Provide a high level of customer service.

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organization.

Educational/ Previous Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A. /B.S.) and a minimum of six (6) years of experience in Compliance and/or the financial services industry preferred.

or

• Any equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training approved by Human Resources.

Licenses/ Certifications

• None Required.

• Additional licenses/certifications demonstrating the candidate’s knowledge/expertise in industry regulation and concepts preferred.