Location Control Manager - Vice President

Location Control Manager

Description

As a Location Control Manager supporting South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), you will help strengthen governance and operational risk controls across lines of business, Operations, and Technology. You will work in a dynamic, collaborative environment, partnering with local, regional, and global stakeholders to identify emerging themes, drive control initiatives, and support effective escalation and remediation.

Job responsibilities

• Oversee the location control environment and provide a consolidated view of operational risk controls to ensure issues are promptly escalated and remediated, including governance, coordination, and execution of global control projects and cross-LOB programs.
• Support country control initiatives, including coordinating Legal Entity Risk Assessments (LERA) for operational risk assessment and appetite.
• Chair location governance forums including LORCC (Location Operational Risk Committee), Regulatory Change Forums (RCFs), and the Outsourcing Forum (OF), and participate in applicable location and regional committees.
• Provide coverage of Legal Entity control matters and coordinate internal control and regulatory deliverables across local and regionally aligned functions, including managing regulatory requests and interactions with regulators.
• Facilitate Legal Entity attestations and partner with Business Control Managers (BCMs) and the Central Control Office to advise on and coordinate responses to regional/local regulatory inquiries and exams.
• Partner with the business to prepare for location-specific audits and support implementation of corporate-owned policies in country, including identifying and assessing local gaps.
• Support Internal and External Audit, Operational Risk Management, and Compliance activities in the execution of control reviews and related actions.
• Partner with BCMs to review results from risk and control self-assessments to identify issues, themes, and trends impacting the local control environment.
• Provide a bridge across lines of business, corporate functions, Risk, Compliance, and Audit to form an end-to-end view of controls and to identify, assess, and communicate potential control gaps and emerging risks.
• Partner with control professionals to ensure process risk self-assessments, mitigating controls, issues, action plans, and risk events are managed in line with policy, supporting timely escalation and resolution for the legal entities.

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 7 years of banking experience in a Controller role.
• Strong understanding of controls and ability to apply them across different processes and businesses.
• Ability to work effectively with senior managers and other control managers locally and regionally, guiding and challenging as appropriate.
• Highly motivated, energetic self-starter who takes ownership of issues and drives them to resolution.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks across different time horizons within deadlines.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks across different time horizons within deadlines.
• Analytical mindset with ability to identify both high-level and detailed issues and them.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to partner across departments in a global organization.
• Sound judgment, maturity, and experience to identify risks and escalate where required.

• Experience in a multinational banking environment.
• Experience coordinating or executing global control projects and cross-LOB programs.