Salary
💰 $119,600 - $178,880 per year
About the role
- Design operational risk management plans and the annual compliance strategic plan
- Develop document retention solutions; create and maintain inventories, libraries, and archival systems
- Improve and scale compliance management routines, workflows, and processes to simplify, streamline and create efficiencies
- Liaise with risk, compliance, ERM/ORM, legal, and audit partners as required
- Drive and support the implementation of enterprise-wide transformation projects
- Perform staffing skills assessments and determine departmental resource gaps
- Develop and maintain a Roles and Responsibilities matrix
- Take ownership of Compliance Governance Documentation
- Reviewing, editing, drafting, and maintaining relevant policies and procedures; ensure governance documents align with regulatory expectations, internal standards, industry best practices, and enterprise risk appetite
- Lead the development of a structured approach to policy management to ensure clarity and consistency
- Take owner ship of the policy on policy, by designing a policy development framework, approval process, implementation and communication strategy, enforcement and monitoring, review and update management routines, style guide, templates
- Manage the global Compliance Online Document Inventory, manage the upload process, perform health checks, and provide data driven reports monthly
- Drafting Procedures that define clear accountability, ownership, roles, and responsibilities and include processes that are sustainable, scalable, and repeatable
- Leverage the results and output from Risk Control Self-Assessments and Program Effectiveness Assessments to facilitate update process of impacted governance documents
- Ensure the updating of relevant governance documentation adequately reflects evolving legal, regulatory, and industry best practices
- Lead and draft responses to inquiries from regulators and respond to internal audit findings
- Develop and use metrics (KRIs/KPIs) to oversee and measure first-line performance and the consistent implementation of compliance standards, must have a deep understanding of Risk Control Self-Assessment, Control Effectiveness Assessment, Program Effectiveness Assessment methodologies and GRC tools
- Strong Project management skills to ensure timelines and deadlines are met
- Independently handle projects, work without direct oversight or intervention, manage competing priorities, and communicate effectively with internal audiences, The ability to work in a team environment
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of experience in governance, or risk management within the financial services or FinTech industry
- Prior experience drafting responses and preparing evidence packages for regulators and internal audit
- Excellent verbal and writing skills with a demonstrated history of independently writing quality policies, and procedures
- Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks, risk management best practices, or mature Compliance Management Systems
- Advanced proficiency with GRC platforms (preferably ServiceNow and Archer)
- Demonstrated project management skills and ability to manage end-to-end functional programs
- Ability to work in a diverse and inclusive workspace and collaborate across large organizations
- Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft Office Suite