Finance Control Management - Valuations Control Group - 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 partnering across the firm to ensure a strong and consistent control environment, promoting early operational risk identification and assessment, and designing effective controls to mitigate operational risk.

Our Finance Control Management (FCM) team is responsible for a wide range of activities, including maintaining the Firm’s SOX Framework and CCAR CFO Attestation Program, governing external reporting initiatives such as Quality Assurance, Accountability & Attestations, and managing Issues & Errors. In this role, you will ensure Corporate Finance Subgroups have a sustainable and disciplined end-to-end control environment, identify and escalate issues with urgency, and partner with stakeholders to ensure timely remediation.

Job responsibilities 

• Identify and assess risks, including ongoing monitoring of operational risk and the control environment.
• Design and evaluate controls.
• Manage issues effectively.
• Govern and report by managing control committees and forums.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Participating in monthly and quarterly control forums with business partners
• Managing control issues and overseeing associated remediation plans
• Coordinating and partnering with Internal Audit and Operational Risk during audits/reviews
• Partnering with the business to evaluate levels of risks and control effectiveness in support of the Firm’s operational risk and external reporting control frameworks (i.e. CORE, SOX and CCAP)
• Designing appropriate triggers and metrics to support risk identification, control evaluation and operational risk reporting to management
• Coordinating risk-based process reviews and pre/post audit reviews
• Defining and driving ad hoc control agenda initiatives

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• BS in Accounting or Finance
• overall 3+ years of work experience. Experience in Internal control / audit will be added advantage
• Strong skills in time management, problem solving, written and verbal communication
• Strong MS Office skillset
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks effectively