Vice President, Testing Center of Excellence - Compliance and Operations Risk Test Senior Lead

If you’re a strategic thinker, passionate about driving solutions and mitigating risk - then you’ve found the right team. As part of our dynamic environment, you’ll have the opportunity to lead and innovate, ensuring our operations align with strategic goals. 

Job Summary

As a Vice President, Compliance and Operations Risk Test Senior Lead within the Testing Center of Excellence, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our compliance and operational risk management. You will be responsible for executing testing processes with precision and accountability, ensuring alignment with the firm's highest risks. Your deep understanding of principles, practices, and theories in risk and control testing will be crucial in identifying unmitigated risks and ensuring a cohesive testing framework. You will leverage your advanced analytical thinking and control evaluation skills to conduct in-depth evaluations of complex issues, and your proficient business acumen to align testing efforts with strategic goals. Your role will also involve managing a diverse team, planning and organizing activities across different parts of the department, and making decisions that have a wide-ranging impact throughout the function.

Job responsibilities 

• Lead the execution of testing processes, ensuring all activities are completed accurately and on time, while maintaining open communication with stakeholders
• Utilize advanced analytical thinking to systematically evaluate various aspects of testing situations, identifying key information and making data-driven decisions
• Conduct in-depth control evaluations to identify control coverage gaps, verify control design and implementation, and assess control effectiveness
• Manage a diverse team, planning and organizing activities to integrate and coordinate work across different parts of the department
• Make strategic decisions that have a wide-ranging impact throughout the function, using your deep knowledge of risk and control testing principles, practices, and theories

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• 7+ years of experience in executing and managing testing processes within a risk and control environment.
• Demonstrated advanced proficiency in analytical thinking, with a track record of systematically evaluating complex testing situations and making data-driven decisions.
• Proven experience in conducting in-depth control evaluations, identifying control coverage gaps, and assessing control effectiveness.
• Experience in leading diverse teams, with a focus on planning and organizing activities across different parts of a department.
• Advanced proficiency in risk management and controls, with a history of making sound decisions in the best interest of the firm according to risk management practices and policies.