Description

The role:

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.

• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank's control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.

The suitable candidate:

• Experienced people leader, demonstrating prior experience and capability interfacing with and influencing senior management , excellent communication skills to senior audience
• Strategic thinking, ability to look ahead and identify risks in line with bank / department strategy
• Technical skills, role requires them to understand complex control requirements, products, bank operations and infrastructure, the client, governance frameworks, bank policies and standards