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Job Title: Strategic Manager Position
This is a newly created management position within the global regulatory affairs office as part of the strategic remediation oversight and governance team.
Main Responsibilities
* Lead a quality control testing team, ensuring the successful execution of the quality control testing program in accordance with established procedures.
* Oversee and implement quality control testing methodologies and build-out of the local quality control testing team.
* Lead and manage quality control testing and validation of significant remediation activities within assigned areas of responsibility, ensuring execution in accordance with established time frames and procedures.
* Assign work to team partners, set priorities and monitor activity in line with team standards and methodology.
* Ensure that quality control testing scope is appropriate and covers key deliverables as defined by department standards and procedures.
* Provide effective review and challenge of significant remediation deliverables to ensure quality of design, implementation and sustainability.
* Identify critical gaps in completed remediation activities, present feedback in management forums, including regional and global senior management/risk committees across business, risk, and compliance, in advance of the formal submission to the regulators/Audit.
Required Skills and Qualifications
* Extensive experience in financial services, within a financial institution, or similar consultancy experience in the financial services industry.
* Direct internal audit or control testing management experience.
* Test plan writing and execution - Ability to approve, draft, and execute, a formal quality control/validation testing plan that considers the organization's risk profile, regulatory/legal requirements, and current risk trends.
* Demonstrate strong initiative, sound decision-making, analytical and intuitive mind-sets, political awareness, and sensitivity to cultural diversity.
* Experience in executing high quality, high value internal testing programs for large businesses or regulated environments.
* Ability to work through critical issues and realign priorities and deliverables as needed.
* Ability to form evaluative judgment(s) based on analysis of information in complicated, unique and dynamic situations.
* Superior analytical and organizational skills.
* Understanding of position and relationship within the overall function to achieve objectives.
* Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written forms, with all levels of staff and management.
* Professional certifications (e.g., CPA, CISA, CIA, ACA, ACCA) and/or an MBA with proven technical abilities in select areas (e.g., regulatory compliance, risk management, auditing) an advantage.