As a Control Management Associate, you'll be responsible for ensuring the AWM's Finance & Business Management Teams have a sustainable and disciplined end-to-end control environment, identifying and escalating issues with a sense of urgency, and partnering with the business to ensure issues are remediated in a timely manner. The team assists in top-down risk analysis, real-time control issue detection, escalation, root cause analysis, and remediation.

The successful candidate is a leader who thinks holistically, extremely motivated, able to successfully multi-task and lead initiatives from conception to completion.   The candidate should possess structure, attention to detail, quality focus, high energy and flexibility to a high-paced deadline driven organization. This individual will need to work well in a team environment, be able to represent the manager/group with professional courtesy.  The candidate will be expected to interact with/present to various management levels across F&BM.

Role Responsibilities:

In partnership with stakeholders, evaluate and perform an end-to-end analysis of the business’ risk and control environment to identify significant gaps and weaknesses and determine root cause of control breaks. Ensure that controls are properly designed, operating effectively, and essential to a proactive risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols. Perform ongoing analysis of program related data (e.g., KRI/KPI) and develop ad-hoc reports as requested to support business-related programs and strategies. Assist with development of Risk & Control Self-Assessment mapping and documentations through participation in end-to-end process walkthroughs and deep dives with assigned business units. Continuously seek to identify and share recommendations to improve practices and processes within the organization. Conduct deep dive of errors and risk events to ensure all control gaps are highlighted and appropriate actions taken.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management or related field required. 3-7 years of experience in financial services industry with background in controls, audit, quality assurance, operational risk management, or compliance preferred; or equivalent subject matter expertise in a relevant business-related function/operation. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence business leaders in a meaningful, professional and actionable manner. Strategic thinker who can partner with diverse teams to drive efficiency and process enhancements. Work autonomously to affect change; flexible, adaptable to shifting priorities; manages competing priorities to achieve the most effective result and able to work in a fast-paced, results driven environment. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) preferred.