Manager, Risk Management Control Assurance

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and actively participate in assurance reviews, including scoping, risk assessment, execution of assurance procedures, documentation, development of conclusions, and reporting.

• Translate assurance methodology into executable workplans, priorities, assignments, and deliverables.

• Manage day-to-day review execution, monitoring quality and progress, resolving barriers, and adjusting priorities as needed.

• Own assurance review timelines and deliverables, ensuring work is completed timely, accurately, and in accordance with established methodology and quality expectations.

• Assess control design, execution, documentation, and effectiveness against applicable requirements, established risk expectations, and defined assurance criteria.

• Support implementation and expansion of assurance coverage, helping establish practical processes and sustainable execution practices.

• Engage team members and cross-functional partners, constructively manage differing perspectives, and influence outcomes within a matrixed organization.

• Identify control gaps, recurring trends, process weaknesses, emerging risks, and opportunities to strengthen the control environment.

• Perform and facilitate root-cause analysis to distinguish isolated exceptions from systemic control or process deficiencies.

• Form and communicate well-supported assurance conclusions based on review results and independent professional judgment; develop concise, actionable reporting for management and senior leadership; and timely escalate significant or systemic control concerns.

• Partner with process owners, control owners, Compliance, Operational Risk, Internal Audit, and other stakeholders while exercising independent professional judgment and maintaining appropriate objectivity in assurance assessments and conclusions.

• Coordinate assurance coverage with relevant Risk, Compliance, testing, and Internal Audit stakeholders to promote complementary coverage, appropriate reliance, and minimize unnecessary duplication of assurance activities.

• Provide constructive challenge regarding control effectiveness, risk exposure, and management actions to address identified control weaknesses.

• Perform and oversee quality review of assurance workpapers, supporting documentation, conclusions, and reporting to promote accuracy, consistency, and defensibility.

• Lead, coach, and develop team members; manage workload, performance, and development; provide timely review and quality feedback; and expand team capabilities in risk assessment, control analysis, professional judgment, and executive communication.

• Support development and enhancement of assurance methodologies, procedures, metrics, reporting standards, and governance practices.

• Leverage and advance the use of data analytics, automation, and technology to enhance assurance coverage, improve review efficiency, and identify systemic risk and control trends.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Risk Management, Criminal Justice, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 7+ years of relevant experience in risk management, quality assurance/control, compliance, financial crimes, operational risk, controls testing, audit, or related field.

• 2+ years of leadership, supervisory, or equivalent project leadership experience.

• Demonstrated experience leading teams or programs through significant organizational, process, or control change.

• Experience operating in a matrixed organization and achieving results through direct leadership, cross-functional partnership, and influence.

• Demonstrated adaptability and resiliency, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and differing perspectives while maintaining execution and delivery.

• Demonstrated experience planning, executing, documenting, and reporting risk-based assurance, control testing, quality reviews, or comparable risk and control assessments.

• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and root-cause analysis capabilities.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex risk and control matters to management.

• Ability to provide effective and constructive challenge while maintaining productive stakeholder relationships.

• Strong organizational and execution skills, with the ability to manage concurrent priorities and deliver high-quality work within established commitments.

Preferred

• Experience in Financial Crimes, AML, Compliance, Operational Risk, Enterprise Risk Management, or another regulated risk discipline.

• Experience with Quality Assurance, Quality Control, control testing, monitoring, audit, or assurance programs.

• Knowledge of risk and control concepts, including control design and effectiveness, RCSA, monitoring, and assurance.

• Knowledge of emerging assurance technologies, including artificial intelligence and automation, and associated risks and controls.

• Experience using data analytics to identify risk, control, or performance trends.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Relevant professional certifications such as CAMS, CIA, CISA, CPA, CRMA, or CRCM.