Control Framework Governance Expert

About Us We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.
We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem.

We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.
The Control Framework Governance team, which you will be joining, is part of the Technology Risk and Control group. The team supports a broad range of stakeholders across Swift in strengthening risk management practices and ensuring compliance across the organisation.
As part of this team, you will contribute as an individual contributor, acting as a subject matter expert responsible for the governance, evolution, and oversight of key control frameworks. These frameworks enable Swift to maintain excellence across its value chain and provide assurance to our global community.
Working closely with technology, risk, and control stakeholders, you will help ensure that frameworks remain consistent, effective, and aligned with regulatory and organisational expectations.

• Support the lifecycle management of control frameworks, including coordinating updates, change requests, rollout activities, and reporting.
• Help maintain the control frameworks, ensuring documentation quality, consistency, and structure.
• Contribute to assurance reporting activities, including supporting preparation of ISAE Type 1 documentation.
• Supporting the frameworks internally: maintain the documentation, report on compliance, organize training and participate in risk assessments and audits.
• Acting as GRC librarian: managing the control library and authority documents in Swift’s Integrated Risk Management system.

• At least 4+ years of relevant professional experience in domains such as risk and controls management, audit, compliance or security.
• Familiarity with control frameworks or governance processes in a technology or financial services environment.
• Good understanding of software and infrastructure delivery and management processes.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, eager to learn, assertive and team player.
• Experience supporting assurance reporting (SOC, ISAE 3000, etc.) is a plus.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

In return, you will be part of a team playing a crucial role in a multinational company that is at the very core of the financial industry.

Swift promotes growth, talent and career opportunities and offers a friendly and professional work environment along with benefits such as a competitive salary, premium free health insurance and easy access to sport facilities.

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Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.