Intermediate Banking Governance & Controls Specialist - role is control setup, maintenance, and governance 101994-1

Intermediate Banking Governance & Controls Specialist -

Duration: 6 months

Hybrid 1-3 days per week. Monday and First Friday of the Month

What does the LOB do?: Human Resources; supports talent, HR systems, compensation, and benefits across the business

What project will this contractor be working on? Ongoing governance & controls work focused on maintaining, updating, and documenting HR controls to mitigate risk.

Responsibilities:

The People, Culture & Talent (PCT) Governance & Controls team is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and assessing the effectiveness of the bank’s governance framework in PCT, including risk assessments, internal controls, and compliance with regulatory and audit requirements. The team supports PCT by ensuring controls and processes are properly designed, implemented, tested, and remediated where required.

Reporting to the Director, PCT Governance & Controls, the Consultant, PCT Governance & Controls will support the business on effective management of operational, regulatory and business risks. The Consultant will have advance knowledge of the control framework, methodology and taxonomies (control descriptions, operational risk taxonomy, control attributes/metadata), HR processes, data governance (metadata, data quality) and process documentation. The incumbent will be a collaborative, hands-on consultant in dealing with key partners on governance, risks and controls.

Controls - Provide advice and guidance to PCT leaders on the creation and maintenance of controls in accordance with Control Management Policy and methodology. Be able to develop and enhance controls according to business process documentation, and explain and defend recommendations/changes.

Process Documentation - Provide guidance and support to PCT business on the creation and update of their process documentation to met control design effectiveness testing requirements. Be able to suggest enhancement to process documentation to clearly articulate roles, responsibilities and activities.

Data & Records - Provide support and guidance to PCT partners on data and records governance. As a subject matter expert, be able to assess the design and operating effectiveness of data, records and information security controls. Identify enhancement opportunities and communicate with PCT partners.

Must Have Requirement

• Ability to influence and collaborate across senior leaders and cross-functional teams - 5+

• Hands-on experience in governance, risk and controls - 5+

• Strong knowledge of HR processes, process documentation - 3+

• Experience with banking or large complex organizations - 3+

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

• Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Confident decision-maker with strong judgment

• Strong communication skills

Nice to Have:

• Data governance experience

• Building Power BI dashboards

• Creating SharePoint lists

Disqualifiers:

• Primarily IT and control testing backgrounds

• Candidates whose experience is mostly technology

• Control testers (role is control setup, maintenance, and governance-not testing)