AVP - CCO Governance

CCO Governance Assistant Vice President (AVP)

Organization: Top Global Investment Bank

Location: Noida / Gurgaon

Role Purpose

This role is responsible for strengthening the banks controls, governance, and risk management framework . The focus is on assessing control effectiveness, identifying risks, improving existing processes and tools, and delivering high-quality governance and management reporting to senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the design and effectiveness of internal controls to mitigate operational, financial, and reputational risks.
• Work closely with 1st Line, 2nd Line & 3rd Line and other stakeholders to document, review, and improve control environments.
• Identify control gaps and weaknesses, prioritize issues based on severity, and track remediation progress.
• Prepare and deliver governance and controls reporting , including committee packs, weekly issue reporting, and senior management updates.
• Execute reviews aligned with internal policies, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices.
• Ensure adherence to the Banks Controls Framework and apply consistent methodologies for control assessments.
• Support control issue tracking, risk event escalation, gap analysis, and timely communication to stakeholders.
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and automation within controls reporting and governance activities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance existing tools, dashboards, and MI using data and automation.

AVP Expectations

• Advise and influence stakeholders on controls, governance, and risk-related matters.
• Lead or guide teams on complex assignments; coach team members where applicable.
• Take ownership of deliverables, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely execution.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information clearly to senior management.
• Support development of policies, procedures, and methodologies to strengthen the control environment.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential:

• Graduate in any discipline.
• Experience in Controls, Governance, Risk Management, and Reporting within a banking or financial services environment.
• Strong understanding of control frameworks, governance processes, and Lines of Defence (1LOD / 2LOD / 3LOD) .
• Hands-on experience in controls or risk reporting, MI, and dashboard preparation .
• Strong data analysis skills and proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint .
• Experience with automation or low-code tools (Power Apps, Power Automate, macros, VBA, BI tools).
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and time-management skills.

Good to Have:

• Exposure to BI tools, advanced dashboards, or Co-Pilot .
• Experience supporting control or risk committees .
• Senior stakeholder interaction and cross-functional collaboration.
• Project or change management experience.

What This Role Offers

• A chance to work at the intersection of banking controls and technology .
• High visibility with senior stakeholders.
• Opportunity to improve and automate existing control and governance processes.

This role is ideal for professionals with a strong controls and governance background who also enjoy working with data, reporting, and automation to improve existing systems.