VP, Data Governance Risk & Controls - First-Line Leader

LPL Financial LLC; Fort Mill, Charlotte (SC, NC); On-site; USD 156,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

health benefits

employee stock options

paid time off

volunteer time off

Job summary

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. is seeking a senior leader to establish and mature the Enterprise Data Governance Risk & Controls function.

You will define the control framework, inventories, testing, monitoring, and reporting to mitigate data-related risk across the enterprise. As the first-line leader, you will collaborate with Product, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Operations, and Audit to embed robust controls throughout the data lifecycle and support regulatory readiness and trusted

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data governance, data management, data risk, controls, or equivalent in a regulated financial services environment.
• Experience designing, implementing, or advancing enterprise data governance and control frameworks, operating models, and inventories.
• Experience with data quality, lineage, classification, retention, critical data management, and controls across the data lifecycle.
• Experience establishing governance processes for control design, evidence, testing, monitoring, remediation, and risk reporting.
• Experience partnering across Product, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Operations, and Audit to deliver enterprise-scale outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead the Enterprise Data Governance Risk & Controls function, including strategy, operating model, governance framework, accountability, and multi-year roadmap.
• Design and oversee a framework spanning data quality, lineage, classification, retention, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, and third-party data risk.
• Define standards for control design, inventories, documentation, evidence, testing, monitoring, issue management, remediation, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Technology, Business, Data Governance, and Responsible AI leaders to embed effective controls across the data lifecycle.
• Align first-line controls with Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk, Information Security Risk, Privacy, Compliance, Legal, Model Risk Management, and second-line requirements.

Skills

Data governance leadership

First-line risk ownership

RCSA & GRC

Executive communication

AI governance

Strategy & leadership

Job description

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. is seeking a senior leader to establish and mature the Enterprise Data Governance Risk & Controls function.

You will define the control framework, inventories, testing, monitoring, and reporting to mitigate data-related risk across the enterprise. As the first-line leader, you will collaborate with Product, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Operations, and Audit to embed robust controls throughout the data lifecycle and support regulatory readiness and trusted