This is a contract to hire role !
Why You’ll Love This Job:
The Governance Specialist will participate in tasks and projects from inception to completion, build relationships with IT and Business partners, and project managers while recommending process solutions and approaches that tackle the problems. The Governance Specialist will support and help coordinate activities across the department to drive process improvement. This position provides support to teams and management through all phases of projects to help achieve project goals. The Governance Specialist must possess excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain our technical concepts and solutions in accessible terms to partners. This position requires working closely with functional and technical teams, reviewing and interpreting functional designs and technical specifications, and partnering with the Business and IT to achieve objectives.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- Submit continuous improvements (CI) requests to the CIRT (Continuous Improvement Review Team) and provide support for submitted CI’s
- Participate in multiple domain initiatives/projects – provides governance and process support for the domain while helping to ensure adherence to internal development processes
- Teamwork – partners with other Embedded Risk Manager to identify best practices and monitors adheres to standard processes
- Documentation – coordinates process reviews for internal and external audits, Compliance, Risk Management & Technology assessments using the Process Risks and Controls (PRC) Framework
- Partners with control functions and other Governance Specialist to support audits & assessments. Coordinates Management Self-Identified issues and manages the Issue Management process for the domain
- Performs Management Testing to assess control effectiveness and documents results
- Assist in the review of standards, policies, and procedures and performs rationalization per compliance guidelines. Supports the development and maintenance of system level documentation
- Participate in sustainability assessments and assesses adherence to regulator, business & compliance requirements and to the Process Risk and Control framework and identifies solutions to resolve control gaps to support our risk mindset
Talents Needed For Success:
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in IT and/or Financial Services systems and operations; at least 1-year experience in software development or equivalent experience.
- Professional certification a plus (e.g. CISA, CIA)
- Bachelor’s degree required with Master’s preferred or equivalent experience