Program Controls Job Description
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Program Controls Job Description
- Ensure that the IAS program is well understood, complied with, and embedded in BAU practices and procedures in APAC
- Understand regulatory requirements in APAC associated with Inter-Affiliate outsourcing and ensure related controls are incorporated into the current IAS process where appropriate
- Act as a central point of contact for tracking, monitoring, and reporting IAS activity in APAC
- Undertake quality assurance assessments of LoBs and Corporate Groups
- Manage projects and partner with operations managers in internal and external audits
- Develop, implement, oversee and execute Quality Control Program that focuses on key risks and evaluate the effectiveness of mitigating controls
- Perform management reporting and engage management on appropriate actions
- Evaluate the accuracy and completeness of Control Self Assessments (RCSA / COI)
- Perform gatekeeper function for addition of Phoenix issues and action plans and closure of completed action plans
- Ensure that internal and external audit issues are documented and dispositioned in Phoenix
- Identifies and communicates outstanding requirements or potential issues to stakeholders in a timely manner
- Identifies and executes process improvements and provides support on key regional initiatives
- Flexible, resilient problem-solver with a can-do attitude
- Knowledge of APAC regulatory requirements and environment preferred
- Responsible for CSAs, Errors, Fines and Losses (EF&L), Business Continuity, SOX, Red Events, Breaches/Incidents and Quality Assurance
- Responsible for the content, consolidation and distribution of monthly Risk and Control reports including CSAs, EF&Ls, Audit Follow-ups, Controls Testing and Miscellaneous Special Risk and Control Topics
Program Controls Job Description
- Ensure consistency and transparency of the New Business Initiative Approval (NBIA) Program Governance and Oversight processes, working with all key stakeholders
- Represent the firmwide NBIA policy program to cross-business, cross-function stakeholders in Asia in order to promote best practice control standards, reflect operational improvement opportunities, and highlight regional regulatory requirements to the global program team
- Create & present NBIA updates to Executive Management and Stakeholders at Risk & Control Meetings
- Manage deliverables for Self-Assessment tool to bring work to implementation
- Update and monitor project plan and project performance against the project plan
- Lead Self-Assessment sub-team meetings
- Manage communications with sub-team members and other stakeholders
- Update Program Manager and ITC leadership on progress
- Prepare Quality Review Board and Passport Review Board presentation materials
- Benchmark other UTC Self-Assessment programs
- Ideally the candidate will have an understating of some of the specific regulatory requirements that impact the products and markets in which the CIB operates
- An understanding of the regulatory landscape in Asia Pacific an advantage
- Lead major product development platform teams from initial marketing requirements definition through concept development, product design, and full production
- Work with regional marketing/sales teams to develop key product specifications that meet and surpass customer requirements
- Manage cross functional teams using ACE and Passport processes
- Prepare and monitor program and resource plans
Program Controls Job Description
- Develop strong understanding of UT Oversight and Governance model
- Ability to effectively participate in meetings, agree actions and follow up accordingly
- Maintain and enhance consistent and timely reporting and metrics
- Engage effectively with business UT Champions
- For all User Tools / Models, engage with owners to ensure control remediation’s are prioritized
- Proactively identify and resolve barriers, risks and interdependencies
- Identify and communicate control gaps, risks, proposed improvements
- Full ownership of the Offline Models (Controls implementation / MIS / BAU Process / recertification)
- CIB point person for UWAT, to ensure inventory maintained
- Ownership of the User Tool Inventory System (UWAT) on behalf of CIB, through gathering requirements, partnering with Corporate, testing, training and roll out
- Ownership of MIS
- Development of strategic MIS to support CIB businesses to become self sufficient in maintaining their UT inventory
- Support ad-hoc MIS requests to support businesses and the program manager (for use in various presentation and scorecards)
- Excellent knowledge in Excel, including data manipulation, macros and pivot tables
- Good working knowledge of PowerPoint and Word
- Excellent level of both verbal and written communication skills
Program Controls Job Description
- Develop / document process maps for all very high and high risk processes
- Lead the inherent risk assessments and calibration exercises across GRDO
- Lead control assessments, working to achieve a continuous testing and overview process
- Proactively identify risk and control issues
- Manage / oversee action plan creation and execution – effective and timely closure of items
- Manage a pipeline of assigned supplier engagements
- Prioritize workloads to ensure that requests are processed based on overall business priorities Resolving prioritization and project resource conflicts among LOB and stakeholders as necessary
- Ongoing administration of control related processes identification and prioritization of issues and improvement opportunities
- Benchmark EIS controls against authoritative frameworks (NIST, FFIEC, ISO27001, PCI, ) to identify opportunities and gaps
- Execute ongoing assessments to determine EIS compliance with enterprise‐wide policies and standards
- Ability to manage multiple and conflicting priorities in a global organization
- Ability to partner with stakeholders of various levels
- Proven ability to succeed and deliver in a complex and challenging environment
- In depth analysis and provision of recommendations
- Maintain strong and collaborative working relationship with Firm-wide O&C Control Teams, Audit, Compliance, and IT Risk Management
- Generate and/or publish recurring risk reporting
Program Controls Job Description
- Regular reporting on the status of assigned projects
- Responsible for directly supervising staff, including interviewing, hiring staff and the termination of staff
- Create and own the Apple Platform Security and controls solution plan and drive completion of all deliverables
- Manage and own the security solution documentation of the Apple Platform in Solution Manager
- Lead the continuous development of the innovation culture
- Assist the team head to identify weaknesses, gaps and opportunities in the operating model for improvement - and report the findings in a simple, compelling way
- Produce high quality documentation (spelling, grammar, clarity)
- Perform end to end process reviews across the business and functional departments
- Analysis of complex data elements and optimising recommendations to facilitate decision making
- Effectively execute approved recommendations with partnership from business and product/platform partners
- Ideally experience in financial services industry
- Security certification such as CISA, CISSP or CISM
- Extensive experience in controls assessment and documentation
- 5+ years of work experience in Finance or Accounting
- Minimum of 5 years experience supporting multiple government program accounting (revenue recognition, EAC, billing)
- Experience in proposal costing