What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director IT Governance position at FIS?
Position Type :
Full timeType Of Hire :
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)Education Desired :
Bachelor of Business AdministrationTravel Percentage :
5 - 10%Job Description
GENERAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES * Monitors and communicates regulatory changes that impact FIS products, services and business activities. * Establishes operational objectives and work plans. * Develops, modifies and executes company policies that affect immediate operations. * Oversees development and implementation of compliance program policies and standards as well as addressing other required regulatory policies. * Responds to issues and matters pertaining to regulatory compliance of FIS products, services and business activities. * Performs periodic reviews and evaluations of FIS products, services and business activities to validate compliance with applicable laws and regulations or detect regulatory violations, weak controls or other potential areas of exposure. * Assists in providing final disposition of any discrepancies regarding compliance issues. * Ensures strategic objectives of the Compliance & Ethics Program are met, including execution of risk assessment activities, coordination of risk response and program testing and validation. * Identifies key business processes, performs evaluations of risk, assesses the effectiveness of controls and promotes improvement across the organization through the deployment of risk response activities. * Designs and deploys processes to validate FIS products, services and business activities meet all applicable regulatory requirements. * Participates in corporate development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs and people. * Creates and delivers training to other business areas to increase compliance awareness. * Develops and motivates staff. * Ensures budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. * Maintains knowledge of applicable laws and regulations. * Offers guidance on implementing regulatory changes. * Communicates detailed requirements to line of business, validate solution approach and monitor status. * Provides compliance reviews and direction for new and expanding products and services. * Conducts compliance assessments and provides direction on any deficiencies detected by those assessments. * Meets with business unit Compliance Officers on a regular basis for status updates on compliance issues. * Monitors line of business compliance activities to verify that regulatory compliance deadlines and requirements are met. * Participates in training promoting compliance awareness. * Identifies areas of potential improvement. * Provides updates for periodic reports. * Interfaces with legal counsel and federal, state, and local agencies, as needed to address regulatory or compliance issues, concerns or questions. * Assists the business with responses to customer compliance-specific questions and concerns. * Participates with and/or leads customer focus and advisory groups. * Prepares and approves internal and customer communications covering compliance issues (bulletins, position statements, monthly reports, etc. * Other related duties assigned as needed. EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS Bachelor's degree in business administration or law or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES * Communicates ideas both verbally and in written form in a clear, concise, and professional manner * Comprehensive knowledge of at least one substantive area of compliance, such as banking regulations, anti-money laundering, or anti-corruption * Excellent analytical skills * Ability to understand technical documents and legal or regulatory reference materials * Ability to understand and apply learned concepts * Demonstrated ability to plan and complete work within tight time limitations * Ability to apply creative problem solving techniques and tools to compliance issues * Ability to follow and conduct a compliance monitoring program * Ability to provide information to a variety of audiences and deal effectively with confidential issues that are sensitive in nature * Ability to share information with awareness of its effect on others FIS JOB LEVEL DESCRIPTION Senior director level role. Excellent knowledge of the field with strong leadership skills. Responsible for managing enterprise wide regulatory compliance activities through subordinates to ensure the achievement of annual objectives. Responsible for policies and procedures and a full range of components within the compliance program such as developing strategies and objectives. Resolves issues and contributes to business unit/area development. Establishes operational objectives and work plans and delegates assignments to subordinates. Involved in developing, modifying and executing policies that affect immediate operations and may have a broader impact to the business unit or division. Works on issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives of the enterprise and/or the client's business. Implements strategic policies when selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results. Establishes and assures adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans and performance requirements. Regularly interacts with senior management or executive levels within the enterprise and/or client organizations. Requires the ability to change the thinking of, or gain acceptance from, others in sensitive situations without damaging the relationship. Authority for hire, fire, performance appraisal, and pay review decisions. Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers. Expected to be primary mentor for others on staff and is a role model for rest of team. Ability to provide communication on issues or complex information to a wide audience based on knowledge. Participates as a senior member in strategic planning and direction. Typically requires a minimum of ten plus years of experience in banking or financial services compliance.Privacy Statement
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EEOC Statement
FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf
For positions located in the US, the conditions below apply.
If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test and background check (including criminal record check)
ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
