Finance Risk & Control - Vice President - C13 - Mumbai - Hybrid

Business Risk and Control Officer will be part of a reporting team which will have responsibility for developing, producing, and automating where possible, reporting of issue related information across Finance.  Issues include those raised by Internal Audit, External Regulatory Agencies, Internal 2nd line of defense or self-identified by the Finance function.  The reporting has different use cases

This role will have a significant impact to Risk and Controls with active participation in Issue Quality Reviews and analytics.  In this role you will gain a deep understanding of Issues, become the subject matter expert on all the associated metrics and analytics to support the quality review process. 

An experienced Risk and Control professional or Reporting and Analytics VP would be the ideal candidate.

Responsibilities:

• Management reporting – to support Finance Executive Management and teams with quantitative and qualitative insight as to the status and trajectory of issues under their responsibility.  This will be used for management forums such as Business Risk and Control Committees (BRCCs), Issues Oversight forums, Performance assessments or other day to day management activities.   Qualitative aspects of this reporting require engagement with multiple issues owners and coordinating and validating commentary and status updates.

• Operational reporting – to support Finance Issue Management in its role of monitoring and managing adherence to policies and procedures.  This will include weekly reporting of changes in issue status, monitoring adherence to data quality reviews and standards, optimizing scheduling of issues for Quality Assurance reviews, amongst others.

• Analytics – to produce ad hoc analytics and deep dives beyond the requirements of BAU Management or Operational reporting. This will involve working with a richer / broader set of data to deepen analysis, while also ensuring the insight generated is clearly articulated. This may range from assessing cross firm dependencies for complex issues or assessing issue root causes to identify trends / patterns or leveraging planned remediation timelines to assess capacity planning initiatives.

  In each of the areas above, for reports which reach a pattern of matured repeatability, the team will drive requirements gathering and documentation to partner with the Digital solutions team to identify and drive automation opportunities.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of experience.
• Proficient in use of COGNOS
• Issue Management Awareness desired
• MS Excel, MS Access, SAS, SQL, Visual Basic a plus. 5+ years’ experience in financial services.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Effective organizational influencing skills required.
• Excellent problem-solving skills Ability to comprehend the big pictures with high attention to critical details
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategy and process improvement initiatives.

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred.