Risk Management Control Assurance Lead

Raymond James; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Hybrid work environment

Professional development

Job summary

Raymond James in Saint Petersburg, FL seeks a Manager, Risk Management Control Assurance to lead risk-based assurance reviews across key processes and controls. You will translate methodology into executable workplans, manage delivery, and coach assurance professionals in a matrixed environment.

You will identify control gaps, drive root-cause analysis, and communicate concise, actionable results to leadership, supporting the evolution of assurance frameworks with data analytics and automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Risk Management, or related field.
• 7+ years of risk management, QA/controls, compliance, financial crimes, operational risk, controls testing, audit, or related field.
• 2+ years of leadership, supervisory, or equivalent project leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams or programs through significant organizational, process, or control change.
• Experience operating in a matrixed organization and achieving results through direct leadership, cross‑functional partnership, and influence.
• Demonstrated adaptability and resiliency, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and differing perspectives while maintaining execution and delivery.
• Demonstrated experience planning, executing, documenting, and reporting risk‑based assurance, control testing, quality reviews, or comparable risk and control assessments.

Responsibilities

• Lead assurance reviews, scoping, risk assessment, execution, documentation, and reporting.
• Translate assurance methodology into executable workplans, priorities, assignments, and deliverables.
• Manage day-to-day review execution, monitoring quality and progress, resolving barriers, and adjusting priorities as needed.
• Own assurance review timelines and deliverables, ensuring work is completed timely, accurately, and in accordance with established methodology and quality expectations.
• Assess control design, execution, documentation, and effectiveness against requirements and criteria.
• Support implementation and expansion of assurance coverage, helping establish practical processes and sustainable execution practices.
• Engage team members and cross‑functional partners, influence outcomes within a matrixed organization.
• Identify control gaps, recurring trends, process weaknesses, emerging risks, and opportunities to strengthen the control environment.
• Perform root‑cause analysis to distinguish isolated exceptions from systemic deficiencies.
• Form and communicate well‑supported assurance conclusions and escalate significant or systemic concerns.
• Partner with process owners, control owners, Compliance, Operational Risk, Internal Audit, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate assurance coverage with Risk, Compliance, testing, and Internal Audit to promote complementary coverage and minimize duplication.
• Provide constructive challenge regarding control effectiveness, risk exposure, and management actions.
• Perform and oversee quality review of assurance workpapers, supporting documentation, conclusions, and reporting.

Skills

Leadership

Risk management

Quality assurance

Communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Data analytics tools

Automation tools

Job description

Raymond James in Saint Petersburg, FL seeks a Manager, Risk Management Control Assurance to lead risk-based assurance reviews across key processes and controls. You will translate methodology into executable workplans, manage delivery, and coach assurance professionals in a matrixed environment.

You will identify control gaps, drive root-cause analysis, and communicate concise, actionable results to leadership, supporting the evolution of assurance frameworks with data analytics and automation.