Job Description

The ETS Proactive Risk Project Manager (PM) requires a discipline and passion for controls-driven management. In this role you will track all completed, on-going and planned activities to proactively identify and mitigate risks.

Responsibilities

The PM will work with the team leads to ensure the completion of Firmwide initiatives. You will be assigned to coordinate administrative tasks, work on plans, produce metrics, escalate concerns, and send deadline reminders. We are looking for a candidate who can be trusted to effectively coordinate the efforts of a diverse project team (multiple departments, roles, and locations) with limited supervision and make sure the projects are completed successfully.

The Governance and Regulatory IT Controls Specialist must demonstrate thorough abilities and/or a proven record of success in evaluating risks and controls within a regulated environment with a thorough understanding of risk management across processes and controls, which includes a record of success with completing deliverables related to the following:

• Identifying key risks and controls, controls optimization, including the configuration of controls around business processes and within IT environments

• Applying internal control principles and business/technical knowledge

• Leading the building and adaptation of working groups, as well as perform assessments, to evaluate controls, identify control issues and potential for remediation and optimization

• Exhibiting project management skills, including developing project plans and deliverables schedules

• Creating a positive environment with cross-functional teams, using manage-by-influence skills and lead-by-example skills to motivate and drive the agenda

• The Governance and Regulatory IT Controls Specialist demonstrates thorough abilities and/or a record of success in the following areas:

• Using technical resources and tools to research and expand one's sphere of knowledge to enhance governance significantly contributes to risk mitigation efforts and remaining up to date on regulatory and industry hot topics

• Collaborating directly with internal control functions, building relationships with partners, understanding the Business Unit strategies, and communicating a broad range of topics to them in an organized and knowledgeable manner

• Managing day-to-day engagement operations, including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues

• Demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks and communicating potential conflicts to leadership

• Creating high quality deliverables using appropriate business and technical language, especially developing and reviewing audit programs or testing steps, adapting an audit program to suit a specific technology, and/or designing controls evaluation.

In this role you will seek to both maintain the current level of deliverables and seek to improve the functions through data integrations, process definition & improvement, improved teamwork & collaboration, automation, and defining or building business cases for new shared or common technology solutions to enhance the governance function.

Qualifications

Demonstrates thorough abilities and/or a proven record of success in providing services related to process and controls, risk assessment and controls testing methodologies across the 3 lines of defense, including business process, regulatory reporting, and management controls as well as risk management, compliance, and operational processes, which includes a record of success with facilitating and completing deliverables involving the following:

• Risks, processes, and controls

• Gap Assessment and proposed remediation across key domains of controls

• Governance regulations and requirements, including compliance readiness programs.

• Risk Management

• Third Party Risk Management

• Auditing and/or responding to audits

• Applied control frameworks.

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (minimum)