ROLE DESCRIPTION
The EMEA CCOR Monitoring and Testing Team is responsible for the timely and effective management and execution of the EMEA CCOR testing programme. This role offers an exciting opportunity to develop key skills and knowledge relating to many and various business areas within the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB), other lines of business and around the globe.
The testing team partners and support Line of Business Compliance Officers, Core Compliance and Operational Risk Management globally. The responsibilities for this position are primarily for activities relating to the CIB and include:
- Execution of the EMEA CCOR Monitoring and Testing Programme in line with the firm’s expectation. The purpose of the programme is to test the design and effectiveness of controls in place to manage operational risk, compliance and conduct risk.
- Testing of businesses impacted by Regulatory changes and Regulator focus
- Partnership with Operational Risk and Compliance managers, and business stakeholders.
- Management of open issues arising from testing and ensuring associated action plans are addressed and issues are validated in line with the firm’s expectations.
- Involvement in departmental projects particularly in relation to the development of the development of the Annual Monitoring and Testing Plan.
- Work with global testing partners to support global monitoring and testing assignments as directed.
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
The successful candidate should have:
- A minimum of three years’ relevant Operational Risk Management or Compliance experience. Alternatively other related experience such as audit, operations or business control management, or similar.
- An understanding of operational risks and their drivers, and be able to challenge the design and effectiveness of the associated business controls.
- The ability to interpret financial regulations and regulatory requirements and assess operational compliance with those requirements.
- Good analytical skills, attention to detail and be able to demonstrate a good knowledge of control design and root cause analysis
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to establish credibility and strong partnership with senior business and CCOR partners.
- Have clear and concise verbal and written skills, and be able to construct and deliver Testing Reports to senior management.
- Have a good appreciation of the regulations applicable to the relevant business, particularly new and upcoming regulations.
- Possess strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to establish credibility and strong partnership with senior business and CCOR partners.
- Be a team player, able to work with other team members across CCOR.
- Have good organizational skills with an ability to manage, prioritise, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Be comfortable interacting with, and presenting to, senior business management and control functions.
- Have flexibility regarding working hours.
- Be able to quickly understand a highly complex and often rapidly changing business environment
- Audit or relevant Industry Qualifications or a University Degree.
