AVP - Control Finance

Role Overview: You will partner with the bank to provide independent insurance on control processes and advise on improvements to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework. Key Responsibilities: - Collaborate across the bank to maintain a satisfactory, robust, and efficient control environment through executing ad-hoc assessments and testing on the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls, aligned to control policies and standards. - Develop detailed test plans and procedures to identify weaknesses in internal controls and other initiatives aligned to the bank's control framework to mitigate potential risks and issues, prioritized by severity to disrupt bank operations, potential losses, and reputational impact. - Communicate key findings and observations to relevant stakeholders and business units to improve overall control efficiency and provide corrective actions to senior managers. Collaborate with other control professionals to resolve complex issues and ensure consistent testing methodologies across the bank. - Develop a knowledge center containing detailed documentation of control assessments, testing on design and operational effectiveness of procedures, findings, and distribute material on internal controls to train and upskill colleagues within the bank. Qualifications Required: - Ability to advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions. - Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives and determine reward outcomes. - Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. - Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. - Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively. - Communicate complex information to influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.,