Senior Manager, Governance & Control (US)

TD Bank Group; Mount Laurel Township (NJ); On-site; USD 115,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

TD Bank Group in Mount Laurel, New Jersey seeks a Senior Manager of Governance & Control to lead a complex function with focus on risk, compliance and enterprise controls. You will partner with senior leaders to align governance practices with strategic goals and ensure effective controls across multiple business areas.

This role involves hiring and developing talent, setting goals, managing performance, and guiding policy implementation.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree preferred
• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Deep knowledge of governance, risk and control procedures
• Advanced knowledge of risk management standards, regulations and mitigation
• Knowledge of current and emerging trends
• Skill in managing budgets and resource allocation
• Mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Using analytical software tools, data analysis methods and reporting techniques
• MS Office proficiency
• Ability to lead, plan, implement and evaluate programs
• Strong written and oral communication
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines
• Discretion with confidential information
• Ability to contribute to strategic initiatives

Responsibilities

• Oversees a complex governance and control function for a high-risk area
• Leads talent management: hiring, goals, performance, compensation, discipline
• Collaborates with leadership to align function with enterprise control
• Plans long-range goals for the function (12+ months)
• Forecasts initiatives and prioritizes portfolio with stakeholders
• Guides regulatory change management and policy implementation
• Develops and communicates holistic governance strategy
• Acts as strategic partner to leadership with industry knowledge

Job description

Work Location:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours:

40

Pay Details:

$115,440 - $173,160 USD

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Line of Business:

Governance & Control Job Description:

The Senior Manager, Governance & Control oversees and leads a highly complex and diverse governance and control function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope usually involving medium to long-term planning, ensuring an integrated approach with other business governance and control areas, the broader organization and enterprise control functions.

Depth & Scope:

Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required

Oversees and leads a highly complex and diverse function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope while growing talent, developing skills and capabilities to achieve career goals, support project/initiative success and achieve business results

Manages and oversees the overall discipline and strategy for the respective areas while aligning to the enterprise best practices

Provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business, executives within area of expertise

Acts as a strategic partner to leadership team on the management of the function, with deep industry, external/internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and; identifying operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management/enterprise areas

Sets operational team direction and collaborates with others to execute on common goals

Focuses on longer-range planning for functional area (e.g. 12 months or greater)

Education & Experience:

Undergraduate degree preferred

10+ years of relevant experience

Deep industry and business knowledge and expertise on risk and control functions

Advanced knowledge of governance, risk and control procedures, strategies & tactics

Advanced knowledge of risk management environment, standards, regulations and mitigation

Knowledge of current and emerging trends

Skill in managing budgets and resource allocation

Skill in mentoring, coaching and performance management

Skill in using analytical software tools, data analysis methods and reporting techniques

Skill in using computer applications including MS Office

Advanced ability to lead, plan, implement and evaluate program/project activities to ensure completion

Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form

Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships across teams and functions

Ability to work successfully as a member of a team and independently

Ability to exercise sound judgement in making decisions

Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines

Ability to process and handle confidential information with discretion

Ability to establish goals and objectives that support the strategic plan

Ability to contribute to strategic direction of the strategic initiatives and projects

Customer Accountabilities:

Develops, communicates and implements a holistic governance and control strategy for own specific business function in support of and integrated with the overall business strategy

Manages and plans activities that require alignment across multiple areas

Leads the implementation of regulatory change management and provides guidance to the team in the development and/or integrated implementation of policies/procedures/changes across multiple business/functional areas

Leads partnership with management and respective teams for area of specialization with industry, enterprise, and business awareness; recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and; identifying issues and opportunities and recommending actions to senior management

Ensures all administration, control and compliance activities are complete and accurate to meet targets for own area

Ensures an integrated and aggregated view of all related business risk and control activities across the overall function providing escalations, recommendations, and decision support to leadership

Forecasts programs/initiatives and demand, and coordinates prioritization of the portfolio/initiatives with key stakeholders

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