Risk and Controls Analyst

Join our dynamic team as a Risk and Controls Analyst within our Operational Risk Management division, where you'll play a crucial role in governing the control environment. Your responsibilities will encompass executing both enterprise-wide frameworks and region-specific operational risk policies, procedures, and programs.

As a Risk and Controls Analyst within our Operational Risk Management team, you will be responsible for the governance of the control environment. This includes execution on both enterprise-wide framework and regional specific operational risk policy/procedure and programs. You will manage the end-to-end process for risk & control identification/assessment at a regional level, and evaluate and remediate any necessary control deficiencies in line with the Operational risk management framework and Compliance and Operational Risk. You will also conduct risk and control process reviews and deep dives into User Tools, Intelligent Solutions, and Models, and provide operational risk and policy guidance for new business initiatives.
 

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist in acting as a liaison for Firmwide Standards and governance processes.
• Collaborate with senior team members to manage inventory tools effectively.
• Work with processes integrated with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Confluence, Alteryx, Tableau, Qlik Sense, Python, and various third-party applications.
• Help initiate the registration process by preparing and sending communications.
• Participate in scheduling and conducting calls to support owners with registration tasks.
• Maintain awareness of significant changes impacting the business and ensure appropriate actions are taken to address these within ongoing efforts.
• Assist in ensuring User Tools and Intelligent Solutions are accurately documented.
• Work with team members to verify risk classification and record completeness.
• Ensure controls are properly designed and operating effectively, fostering a proactive risk and control culture that utilizes proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities:

• Excellent communication, presentation, analytical and problem solving skills.  
• Teamwork – Creates and/or contributes to an environment of collaboration and mutual responsibility 
• Ability to understand and interpret impact of policy and procedural changes, as well as ability to identify and convey potential problem areas 
• Flexibility i.e. Ability to work independently.
• Previous control design and testing experience 
• Expertise in performing robust risk assessments, identifying and designing effective testing of internal controls and performing effective root cause analysis.  
• Strong familiarity with commercial banking lending operations, regulations and lending related source documents 
• Experience with Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years’ experience in Banking Industry with Quality and/or Operations Risk Management/testing