Senior Business Risk and Control Manager, 1st Line of Defense, Senior Vice President | Belfast, UK

The Business Risk and Control Senior Officer - SVP - Belfast Responsibilities:

• Work with Management on governance and the facilitation of the execution of the Manager Control Assessment (MCA, i.e. Risk & Control Self-Assessment) as required by the MCA Standard including the assessment and appropriate approval of risk associated with business changes.
• Accountable for the quality, completeness, and accuracy of the implementation of the Control Framework, including Risk Control Policy, Control Standard, Issue Management Policy, Lesson Learned Policy and Control Inventory.
• Ensure the identification of issue root cause, partnering with control and process owners to recommend holistic corrective actions and improvements, provide check and challenge to ensure appropriate escalation in accordance with Issue Management and Escalation Policies.
• Direct teams in the implementation of the Lessons Learned Policy, including monitoring of control breaches and dissemination and learnings across other business units for process improvement to limit the occurrence of similar future events and where similar risk exposure might exist.
• Support management in the review and challenge process, within the FLUs, on the effective design and management of controls to mitigate risks as required by the Control Standards, including implementation and operation, conducting the control monitoring, handling deficiencies, and escalating issues for resolution.
• With management, direct teams on the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of the MCA through controls prior to the execution of a process (QC).
• Assess, with management, the adherence to the MCA Standard through controls after the execution of a process (QA).
• Assist management in exercising control over Operational and Compliance Risk in accordance with established Policy requirements.
• Help management allocate resource to identify, assess, escalate, and manage risk exposures across Risk Categories (Operational Compliance, Strategic, Reputational, etc), including material, emerging and concentration risks in accordance with enterprise Policies and the establishment of Key Indicators to monitor risk exposures.
• Assist management with engagement across stakeholders to support controls initiatives progress reporting and escalate topics appropriately to Senior Management.
• Help management with providing effective challenge to internal stakeholders on updates provided to ensure effective, appropriate, and accurate communications.
• Support management with coordinating across cross functional teams to address audit and regulatory queries.
• Be responsible for collaboration with technology teams for creation of tools to support reporting automation.
• Take ownership to identify, assess, record and respond to Operational and Compliance Risk events, ensuring these are captured accurately, timely and in accordance with requirements.
• Support management on operational risk scenario analysis and stress testing for Operational Risk Capital requirements.
• Take ownership to ensure that risk and control responsibilities and accountabilities are embedded within FLUs, including providing training and leading by example.
• Assist management in guiding and influencing standards and procedures that conform to enterprise requirements and support sound operational and compliance risk management.
• Apply knowledge of the business, products or services to identify and implement control points and processes throughout the business.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• Experience in Operational Risk Management, Audit, Compliance or other control function.
• Familiarity with 3rd party risk models.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• SQL, Perl or Python, Matlab or R, Excel VBA, and database administrator experience is a plus.

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.