Job Description Summary
The role will be critical in building a modern data/technology led approach to assist IPI s business areas to proactively monitor and assure their control environment and enable proactive self-identification of potential control issues. This will include root cause analysis activity across a range of potential risk events and identifying the areas IPI need to improve to protect our customers and reduce operational losses.
Furthermore, the role will include driving forward a programme of control testing to proactively assure the design and operational performance of controls across IPI. This is with an aim of driving increased self-identification of issues within the 1st line of defence. We are looking for individuals who can be innovative, technologically adept and take a data-led approach to control assessment, driving towards a more predictive approach to potential control issue identification and factoring this into high-quality reporting with actionable insights.
Job Description
What youll be doing!
- Part of a high performing Control Testing and Monitoring team to drive excellence in providing a Control Service to IPI.
- Deliver against agreed customer, business and strategic outcomes.
- Analyses and assesses control environment effectiveness using a wide range of testing and monitoring techniques and identifies potential impacts on the business.
- Assists the development of the first line control management centre of excellence that supports safe growth and enables high quality customer service.
- Supports the implementation of the control strategy to monitor and test the design and operating effectiveness of the control environment across e2e business processes.
- Organises and prepares documentation, while also gathering and summarising data and information, to produce high quality testing and monitoring outcomes. This will include high quality insightful reporting for IPI stakeholders.
- Leads on the root cause analysis and identification management of actions on operational risk events and breaches. Identifies issues and then suggests and implements improvements to control environment with guidance from senior colleagues.
- On occasion, you may be asked to support other Controls Office services that LTC provide to IPI based on business demand
What youll need
- Good understanding of controls and their practical implementation across relevant financial services disciplines and risk types.
- Knowledge and experience of the approaches taken to manage non-financial/financial risk and a good technical understanding of business processes.
- Strong understanding and practical application of control testing and monitoring activities, with some experience of delivering control design and optimisation.
- Good technical understanding with the ability to support a proactive data and technology led approach to control monitoring.
- Good technical understanding of risk and control data and how this is managed in a GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance) system.
- Takes responsibility for growing their skills and capabilities with support from senior colleagues. Coaches team members others in area of expertise to drive an uplift in skills and risk and control culture throughout IPI.
- Provides input into the development of both short- and medium-term control strategies.
- Makes good and timely decisions that keeps IPI moving forward. For example, ensures that people s decisions comply with policies and standards. Integrates analysis, experience, and other inputs to make effective decisions.
- Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. For example, encourages colleagues to work together as a team, and make sure they get recognition for doing so.
What we re looking for:
- Risk Control Management : Strong risk management, governance and compliance knowledge.
- Data and Technology : skills and experience with utilising technology solutions and organisational data to build data led control monitoring solutions.
- Change/Transformation: experience of transforming and changing businesses, with a particular focus on control testing and monitoring.
- Stakeholder management: excellent interpersonal and presentational skills, both upwards to director level and downwards.