Control Manager - Vice President

Are you passionate about building relationships across organizations, maintaining controls and oversight to ensure compliance, mitigating risks, solving problems, identifying solutions and driving results? Do you enjoy conducting analysis and providing insights to senior leadership? Then you’ve found the right role.

As a Control Manager – Vice President within Asset Management, you will provide comprehensive coverage and joint accountability model with the business executives to promote early operational risk identification and assessment, effective design and evaluation of controls and sustainable solutions to mitigate operational risk. Your role as a Control Manager will focus on four areas: 1) Control design and expertise 2) Risks and controls identification/assessment 3) Control breaks and resolution 4) Control governance & reporting. You will also be responsible for working across diverse and cross-functional organizations to develop plans, identify solutions, and drive continuous improvement through participation and/or ownership of key control initiatives, self-assessments and root cause analysis along with ongoing process review and control testing.

For this role, candidates must be able to physically work in our Columbus, OH 3 days a week and remotely from home 2 days per week. The specific schedule will be determined and communicated by direct management.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage control-related activities, including risk event occurrences, and new business initiatives and provide control related due diligence to business units to foster a proactive risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols
• Partner effectively with colleagues across the firm, business, operations management, legal, compliance, risk, audit, regulators and technology control functions to drive consistent and rigorous operational risk practices and Control programs including: control committees, risk mitigation, key risk indicators, control design and performance evaluation
• Help establish control governance and reporting to identify meaningful metrics to inform on health of operational risk and control environment; escalate control deficiencies based on key reporting indicators; and manage control committees and forums.
• Communicate effectively across all levels
• Lead and partner with the business, legal, risk, compliance and other control partners on various issues ranging from self-identified issues to global regulatory enforcement actions
• Lead in the root cause analysis of client-impacting errors and aid in the resolution both in correction and improvement of the control environment
• Partner with the business and other control partners across multiple time zones in an effort to create consistency in the control environment and underlying processes globally
• Support discussions with regulators, audit teams, compliance and risk ranging from one-off meetings to more formal presentations in Business Control Committees
• Work with a sense of urgency on emerging issues
• Aid in the utilization of the technology budget and inform key decisions on technology infrastructure and provide ongoing feedback and training to develop employees on risk concepts and the application to risk and control evaluation
• Lead by example, with exemplary personal and professional attributes. Inspire confidence in all levels of staff as well as key partners from other functional areas and across Lines of Business

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required 
• 7 years of financial service experience in controls, audit, quality assurance, risk management, or compliance preferred
• Proficient knowledge of control and risk management concepts with the ability to design, create and evaluate a Risk & Control Self-Assessment in conjunction with business partners 
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Business knowledge - ability to understand the business / knowledge of regulation surrounding business 
• Communication/presentation - excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence business leaders in a meaningful and actionable manner 
• Networking – exceptional interpersonal skills; exceptional collaboration and relationship building skills 
• Work autonomously to affect change - flexible, adaptable to shifting priorities; manages competing priorities to achieve the most effective result and able to work in a fast-paced, results driven environment 
• Process analysis / design acumen – ability to understand a process and associated risk to inform control design 
• Problem solving / Analytical skills - solid critical thinking, attention to detail and analytical skills; able to synthesize large amounts of data and formulate appropriate conclusions 
• Implementation skills  and ability to make subjective and informed decisions based upon output, influence stakeholders and justify decision making 

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