Vice President, Business Unit Risk & Control Manager - Infrastructure

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a candidate to manage IT controls and risk assessments. In this role, you'll work with senior management and regulatory bodies to ensure compliance and effective risk management. The ideal candidate has extensive IT controls knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a background in regulations affecting financial services. Flexible working options are available.

Qualifications

• Expert level understanding of IT controls and frameworks.
• Strong background in regulations related to banking and technology.
• Experience in developing and presenting materials to senior management.

Responsibilities

• Manage risk and controls with control owners.
• Define meaningful risk indicators and dashboards.
• Support regulatory engagements and reviews.

Skills

IT controls understanding

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Decision making skills

Attention to detail

Job description

The role is to partner with the Risk, Security and Control Pillar within the EMEA Tec function to ensure that risks and controls are effectively managed. The role will involve working with management to ensure that controls are adequately understood and documented, issues are raised, tracked and remediated. This role will also provide support to the team when undergoing internal and external audits, ensuring requests are responded to completely and accurately and that issues are correct and owned by the right individuals.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working with control owners, lines of defence and risk management functions to manage risk, controls, issues and actions
• Help risk and control owners identify and document significant risks that require escalation and remediation
• Help define meaningful risk indicators and dashboards to allow real time assessment of control performance. Assist in the delivery of these key risk indicators.
• Working with management, product owners and control owners to deliver clear concise reporting to senior management, boards and executive committees.
• Identify and implement data sources to support the delivery of key risk indicators and dashboards
• Provide assistance in the development of management action plans in response to audit and self identified issues.
• Track the delivery and execution of remedial actions and provide early identification where remedial actions are not progressing or need to be changed to mitigate risks.
• Validate the effective closure of key audit and self-identified issues prior to closure and submission to internal audit.
• Support any regulatory engagements and reviews.
• Be the interface to Head Office and other risk and control functions to ensure that requirements are being met.
• Drive risk and control culture improvements and help improve the understanding and focus on key risk and control topics.

Requirements:

• Expert level understanding of IT controls, control frameworks (e.g. COBIT, NIST,CRI) and key technology risks impacting financial services
• Background in 1LOD risk and controls, audit or 2LOD in a technology environment is required.
• Extensive experience of technology infrastructure including cloud and resiliency risk and controls
• Strong background in regulations with specific understanding of DORA, SOX and other regulatory framework and requirements with an impact on banking and technology.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills. Ability to influence and challenge senior management.
• Excellent written communication with experience of developing and presenting materials to senior and executive management, Self-motivated and proactive
• Balance risk with opportunity and ability to prioritise
• Ability to learn new technologies and tooling particularly in relation to data analytics
• Organised and results focused
• Excellent and innovative communicator with the ability to use data to simplify complex concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrate global perspective
• Collaborate and build partnerships with technical and non-technical members
• Think strategically, with structured and logical approach to work
• Able to work to tight deadlines
• Logical and objective even under pressure
• Good understanding of financial technologies and the banking environment
• Good understanding of technology control frameworks and regulations
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• Meticulous attention to detail.

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

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