Director, Transaction Banking Governance & Change

TD Bank Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

TD Bank Group in New York, NY, seeks a Director of Governance and Controls for Transaction Banking. This senior role reports to the Managing Director and guides risk across payment products, rails, and platforms while partnering with Legal, Compliance, and Audit.

The position emphasizes leadership, strategic governance, and evidence-based decision-making to ensure regulatory alignment and strong control environments. Competitive compensation is offered.

Qualifications

• Extensive governance, risk management and regulatory compliance experience.
• Strong background in Transaction Banking and payments risk.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional, risk-focused programs.
• Experience with large-scale technology delivery and agile ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Provide governance, risk, and control guidance to Transaction Banking leaders.
• Provide an integrated view of risk across payment products, rails, platforms, processing flows, operations, technology, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Lead first line governance for payment-related changes, including New Business and Product Approval, Change Risk Assessments, and post-implementation validation.
• Coordinate engagement across the business, Product, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Legal, Audit, and risk partners.
• Provide oversight and challenge of payment processes, controls, risk assessments, evidence, and reporting.
• Monitor emerging risks, incidents, control gaps, issues, and remediation activities.

Skills

Governance

Risk management

Stakeholder Mgmt

Leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Education

Undergraduate degree

Graduate degree a plus

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

TD Bank Group in New York, NY, seeks a Director of Governance and Controls for Transaction Banking. This senior role reports to the Managing Director and guides risk across payment products, rails, and platforms while partnering with Legal, Compliance, and Audit.

The position emphasizes leadership, strategic governance, and evidence-based decision-making to ensure regulatory alignment and strong control environments. Competitive compensation is offered.