Sr Business Control Specialist

Plano, Texas

Job Description:

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Position Summary

In this role, the Business Control Manager will initially lead the management of risk for up to two Technology Executives by partnering with the leadership and their teams to apply subject matter expertise to support a culture of risk identification, escalation and timely mitigation of compliance and operational risks. Candidates will be responsible to solve problems analytically by applying a mixture of risk and technology expertise to perform impact assessments, identify root causes in support of the technology control activities, and drive risk reduction in the respective technology teams.

They will be responsible to provide feedback and training as needed and monitor the health of audit issues through their lifecycle, including action plan development and validation through reviews. The role requires strong communication and leadership skills, candidates are required to drive collaboration with teammates across organizations (Technology, Operations, Audit, GIS etc.) and with the management team to identify opportunities to improve control and reduce risk.

The ideal candidate will work closely with a Risk Lead who is responsible for overseeing the portfolio of risk activities for a CIO within GT, and have the potential to step into a Risk Lead role periodically.

Responsibilities:

· Execute risk mitigating strategies to address key technology areas to ensure conformance with laws, rules and regulations

· Partner with multiple technology organizations, divisional leads within Global Technology & Operations and Line of Business, and control partners (i.e. GIS, Technology Compliance & Ops Risk, Audit, etc.)

· Identifies recommendations to leadership to maximize efficient identification, assessment and remediation of risk

· Utilize technical domain expertise in data management, information security, infrastructure or network operations to drive policy adherence and maintain sustainable risk based solutions

· Oversee Issue Management activities end-to-end, including development of action plans for self/audit/compliance-identified issues

Required Skills:

· 5+ years of relevant work experience in technology with some applied within financial services or risk

· 3-5 years of professional domain expertise in a technical discipline, such as data management, artificial intelligence and/or information security

· Organizational acumen

· Communicates complex technical subject matter into clear, concise language suited for various audiences ranging from executives to junior analysts

· Demonstrated increasing levels of accountability and ownership

· Demonstrated ability to operate as a change ambassador by advocating and embracing change across diverse stakeholders groups

· Strong collaboration and partnering skills with ability to positively influence and motivate teams

· Comfortable with ambiguous situations capable of analyzing, simplifying and collaborating to solve complex problems

· Strategic thinker, self-starter, organized, versatile, and capable of performing work with minimal management oversight

· Ability to coordinate and drive execution of priorities and meet deadlines to adhere with policies and standards

· Can quickly “connect the dots” to demonstrate ability to identify and perform thematic analysis

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

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