Business Controls Analyst Senior

Overview

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY? This position will work directly with City National Bank's ("CNB") Business Control Officer ("BCO") and Business Control Managers ("BCMs") for XXX and will partner with the Risk Framework leadership team. Responsibilities include understanding controls required for compliance with applicable regulations, identification of relevant issues, solution design, design of required controls and monitoring, leveraging industry practices and coordination with colleagues across the organization.

This role is expected to contribute constructively and balance challenges, supporting alignment of business objectives with CNB's risk appetite and established limits.

• Responsible for the support in development and implementation of control-related assessments, programs, development of controls to aid in implementation of regulation, rules, and risk management requirements.
• Analyze, evaluate and periodically review relevant risk management practices across the organization, including activities at network affiliates. Collaborate closely with colleagues across the 2nd and 3rd lines to strengthen the control environment and enhance risk management practices.
• Analyze and evaluate data that affects the technical, operational, and business functions and provide insight to the practical impacts/implications to the business line.
• Provide guidance on Control Standards to ensure compliance-related controls are documented in line with the standards.
• Participate in execution of essential risk program functions, including Compliance Risk Assessments, Key Risk Indicators (KRI) review, Issue Management, Operational Losses, and more. Provide informed and valuable risk and control perspectives to other members of the Business Control team and Business Units.
• Coordinate 2
  
  LOD Review & Challenge interactions with LOB, engage with 2
  
  LOD Compliance Testing (including RBC) to provide sufficient guidance and support during the testing period.
• Contribute to the development of a robust risk culture, risk conduct, and risk literacy within the first line of defense, including design and implementation of preventive and detective controls relating to Entertainment Banking activities (focus on Compliance-related controls).
• Coordinate with 1st LOD Testing team to understand observations related to compliance controls and ensure appropriate actions are documented to remediate gaps.
• Act as the business teams’ liaison for business line risk management, compliance activities, legal engagement, and internal or external audits.
• Act as a liaison representing the Business Control Office at internal meetings; establish and cultivate strong working relationships with all stakeholders. Attend meetings with and/or in place of the SVP BCO, provide feedback and escalate decisions.
• Build and sustain effective relationships and alliances both internally and across all lines of business and staff areas to help deliver results and to ensure opportunities are identified, analyzed and managed appropriately. Understand interdependencies to achieve success.
• Partner with team members to contribute concise communication materials for senior management. Develop presentations for internal and external meetings that are compelling, concise, and graphical to convey the message.
• Prioritize organizational risk management objectives.
• Participate in special projects as necessary.
• Facilitate audit and examination activities.
• Support enterprise-wide initiatives in credit underwriting and portfolio management within the Credit Solutions organization.
• This is a risk and control focused role. Preferred experience in the Commercial Banking Risk and Control Space.
• Ability to recommend process improvements for departmental and business unit processes, as well as procedures to improve internal controls and mitigation strategies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years within or related to financial services
• Minimum 5 years of auditing, risk, control or finance consulting experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience with risk management methodologies
• Minimum 3 years of Advanced level experience in Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, Access and Power Point

Additional Qualifications

• Preferred CRM certification
• 5 years in a role requiring complex problem solving
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills – and ability to interact with colleagues at all levels in a peer-like way, and achieve goals without direct control over resources
• Strong end-to-end generalist problem solving skills
• Defining and deconstructing problems
• Prioritizing issues and analysis
• Structuring and building quantitative and qualitative/conceptual analyses
• Knowledge in Financial Services, Project Management
• Demonstrated ability to influence change, build relationships, communicate effectively, work under pressure, manage multiple priorities and deliver high-caliber results
• Proficiency with MS Excel and Power Point
• Excellent time management,…