Senior Control Manager - MENAT- GCIO

Overview

The GCIO Chief Control Office (CCO) team plays an important role in enabling the bank to operate within its risk appetite by ensuring efficient and effective risk and control management. We provide operational risk and control expertise, specialist technical knowledge and a deep understanding of the businesses and functions we serve.

The GCIO Chief Control Office (CCO) team implements and oversees the Group’s Risk Management Framework, conducts ongoing and targeted controls assessments, maintains robust risk governance, and champions a proactive risk culture. GCIO CCO collaborates with partners across all lines of defence and maintains positive relationships with regulators and external partners.

In this role you will be required to partner with the GCIO CCO function to oversee the risk and control portfolio related to the services CCO Asia and Middle East provides to and/or consumes from the Group. You will be a leader within the GCIO Chief Control Office (GCIO CCO) Function that directly supports the UAE/MENAT, and may also support other markets where required.

• Acting as trusted advisor for senior management by partnering to manage their operational risk i.e., risk assessments, control environment, issues management, audits.
• Promoting accountable risk and control decision-making based on quality data and analysis, actively challenging poor, inefficient or excessive controls, related tasks and behaviours.
• Providing specialist risk and control knowledge and insights, leading efforts to continuously improve the control environment and monitoring of risk, including behaviours.
• Advising and designing processes and controls in a commercially viable, practical and effective manner.
• Identifying trends to anticipate future developments in the risk and control environment.
• Influencing and shaping the development and implementation of future-fit risk management and regulatory frameworks.
• Providing Senior Management with updates on any relevant changes to policy or projects related to operational risk that have an impact on their area of responsibility.

The role is part of a global team and will be expected to support and collaborate with other team members across multiple regions, as well as manage their portfolio while maintaining an acceptable risk profile.

• Facing off to senior management and managing respective portfolios. Responsible for embedding risk and control management framework, including control monitoring and assurance.
• Managing stakeholders across multi-faceted geographies, businesses and functions.
• Presenting and reporting complex risk and control information in ways that are meaningful for different stakeholders.
• Applying professional understanding, expertise and judgement to oversee the health of the end-to-end control environment.
• Leveraging opportunities to implement more automated, effective and cost-efficient controls and measures of effectiveness.
• Providing advice, support and challenge to stakeholders to help them understand and manage controls and risks effectively.

• Analyzing and interpreting risk and control related information to provide insight and improvement with clear and measurable outcomes.
• Delivering clear, concise and consumable messages based on good evidence and informed judgement that support risk and control related decision making.
• Monitoring and analysing the performance of the control environment to drive more effective design and operation of controls.

• Support CCO operating model, service catalogue, procedures, and toolkits.
• Constructive challenge on control environment and assessment of risk across GCIO.
• Ensuring lessons learnt in one line of business/impacting incident are properly understood for all GCIO with associated actions implemented in a timely manner.
• Embed risk culture and change delivery capability across the GCIO CCO function.

• Interpret, implement, and monitor compliance with local Regulator(s) within the markets and industry standards across Cyber and Technology.
• Participate in…