Control Manager - Associate

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in control management. You have found the right team. 

As a Control Management Associate in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining, and delivering set goals for our firm. You will be responsible for ensuring the line of business maintains a sustainable and disciplined end-to-end control environment. Your role involves identifying and escalating issues with urgency and partnering with the business to ensure timely remediation. The team supports top-down risk analysis, real-time control issue detection, escalation, root cause analysis, and remediation.

Job responsibilities 

• Partner with stakeholders to evaluate and perform an end-to-end analysis of the business’s risk and control environment, identifying significant gaps and weaknesses, and determining the root cause of control breaks.
• Ensure controls are properly designed, operating effectively, and essential to a proactive risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols.
• Perform ongoing analysis of program-related data (e.g., KRI/KPI) and develop ad-hoc reports as requested to support business-related programs and strategies.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Control and Operational Risk Evaluation (CORE) system, managing the governance program, including liaising with the central team, control evaluation, quality assurance, annual sign-off, compliance, and operational risk commentary.
• Act as an SME for models governance for the LOB, supporting the business in managing model risk, including inventory maintenance, usage confirmation management, and related reporting.
• Manage the User Tool and Intelligent Solutions governance program end-to-end, including quarterly Quality Assurance, annual assessment, monthly reporting, and liaising with business champions and the central team.
• Manage the Consecutive Leave program to comply with firmwide policy requirements, including applicability assessment and related reporting.
• Support the onshore team in Office of Legal Obligations (OLO) related activities, such as inventory maintenance, Quality Assurance, and annual sign-off.
• Support the India LOB lead in risk and control reporting.
• Identify automation opportunities and implement them effectively.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in the financial services industry, with a background in controls, audit, quality assurance, operational risk management, or compliance; or equivalent subject matter expertise in a relevant business-related function/operation.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Knowledge of automation tools such as Alteryx, Python, Tableau, etc.