This is an exciting opportunity to join the APAC Payments Controls Management Team
As a Payments Control Manager Associate, you will support the continuous build out of the end-to-end controls, ensuring that business growth is supported with a strong risk and control foundation. Your role will involve collaborating with the wider Payments Controls team on a regional and global scale to deliver innovative solutions, including data analytics, to help grow and streamline the business. Your unique perspective will be highly valued as the Payments Business relies on the Controls functions to demonstrate strategic thought leadership and implement best in class risk management practices. This role is ideal for someone who is intellectually curious, brings fresh ideas and unique problem-solving approaches, possesses strong process orientation/project management skills, critical thinking, and excellent writing/presentation skills.
Job Responsibilities
- Manage control-related activities and provide control related due diligence to business to foster a strong risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols
- Manage internal and external audits, testing activities and regulatory exams which impact Payments across the region
- Collaborate with business, legal, risk, compliance and other partners to devise, monitor and challenge Issues and Actions Plans (APs) to ensure that control gaps are sustainably addressed, ranging from self-identified issues to regulatory enforcement actions
- Work with various stakeholders to determine the applicability and impact of individual regulations to the Payments business, mapping of legal obligations and related CORE processes, risks and controls
- Partner effectively with Controls Managers, colleagues across business, operations and technology control functions to ensure consistent and rigorous operational risk practices and control programs including: Proactive theme-based reviews, identification and mitigation of risks and control design & performance evaluation, impact assessment for regulatory changes
- Work with the Control Manager Lead to conduct operational risk assessment for New Business & Change Management initiatives and provide controls requirements for identified incremental risks
- Support Payment Business/Regional/Local Control Forums; produce MIS / Reporting/ Governance material
- Provide guidance to business in the ongoing testing of controls. Manage escalation and documentation of Risk Events
- Work with location partners to support location oversight and governance
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- Minimum 4 years experience in business controls, operational risk, Compliance, Audit or similar function
- Minimum of Bachelor's Degree in Finance/Economics
- A strong team player, proactive and problem solver with proven ability to evaluate processes, controls and issues to determine the inherent risks
- Proven ability to communicate effectively (both oral and written)
- Strong analytical, application and problem-solving skills with the ability to exercise sound and balanced judgment; attention to detail and be able to effectively prioritize.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- A level of familiarity with, and interest in Payments business and products
- Understanding of the control framework for Payment business would be beneficial
- Comfortable with and adept at reading and interpreting regulations
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