Governance Manager (US)

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Governance Manager

Job Purpose

Work with the business to ensure operations are in line with relevant regulations, appropriate governance, risk management and control standards and in line with corporate policies. Ensure that required risk, governance and control process is embedded and operating in all business activities. Monitor the prevailing risk profile of the business. Ensure relevant State and Federal Reserve regulations are met.

Includes:

• Providing expert guidance, support, oversight and independent challenge to ensure that all business risks are identified, documented, measured, monitored and mitigated.
• Building effective relationships with the senior management team and functional business areas to develop individual risk profiles and articulate risks in a clear and consistent manner.
• Involvement with major change projects and organic expansion plans to ensure that compliance and regulatory requirements are understood and implemented.
• Facilitating detailed risk and control assessments on all core processes and functional business areas
• Understanding and interpreting corporate policy and local US legal requirements to ensure that they are applied appropriately to the business.
• Maintaining a broad cross functional view of issues within the business to share information and key learning’s that could effect or improve the overall business objectives and performance agenda.
• Monitoring major business incidents to ensure that root cause analyses drives appropriate mitigating actions
• Increasing the awareness of business risk and the importance of embedding corporate governance to maintain a cultural change
• Support, develop and maintain the business continuity plans our regional office

Knowledge and Expertise

• Detailed understanding and awareness of the financial services industry
• In depth knowledge of internal and external risk , governance and control requirements
• Substantive experience gained in more than one financial services business area
• Previous ‘risk’ experience gained in different risk roles
• Experience across more than one part of the risk process - audit, group, regulation, risk control, business side etc
• Experience working in BSEL2/AMA bank
• Degree and / or MBA
• Specific knowledge of risk and control techniques related to at least one risk type.
• Experience of the consumer lending industry, in particular cards.
• Experience working with global regulatory bodies such as Federal Reserve, NYSBD, FSA, FDIC, etc.

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