Risk & Controls Testing Specialist

Contractual | 3+ Months |
Jacksonville, FL | Dallas, TX, Texas,Florida, USA
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Title: Risk & Controls Testing Specialist
Location: Jacksonville, FL or Dallas, TX
Duration: 3+ Months

Job Description:

  • The Quality Assurance Officer is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within their field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in their job and the business.
  • Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness.
  • There are typically multiple people within the business who provide the same level of subject matter expertise.
  • Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide, influence, and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasionally external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables.
  • Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business.
  • Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Responsibilities:

  • Support teams in the quality, completeness, and accuracy of the implementation of the Control Framework, including Risk Control Policy, Control Standard, Issue Management Policy, Lesson Learned Policy, and Control Inventory.
  • Help contribute to the Lessons Learned Policy, including monitoring of control breaches and dissemination and learnings across other business units for process improvement to limit the occurrence of similar future events and where similar risk exposure might exist.
  • Support the review and challenge process, within the FLUs, on the effective design and management of controls to mitigate risks as required by the Control Standards, including implementation and operation, conducting the control monitoring, handling deficiencies, and escalating issues for resolution.
  • Help contribute to the timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of the MCA through controls before the execution of a process (QC).
  • Assist in the monitoring of the adherence to the MCA Standard through controls after the execution of a process (QA).
  • Be part of the process to identify, assess, record, and respond to Operational and Compliance Risk events, ensuring these are captured accurately, timely, and by requirements.
  • Coordinate risk and control responsibilities and ensure accountabilities are embedded within FLUs, including providing training and leading by example.
  • Support with standards and procedures that conform to enterprise requirements and support sound operational and compliance risk management.
  • Apply knowledge of the business, products, or services to identify and implement control points and processes throughout the business.
  • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Client, its clients, and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct, and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience.
  • MS Excel, MS Access, SAS, SQL, and Visual Basic are a plus. 5+ years’ experience in financial services.
  • Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
  • Effective organizational influencing skills are required.
  • Third-party vendor management is preferred. Demonstrated ability to lead global team efforts
  • Excellent problem-solving skills Ability to see the big picture with high attention to critical details
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategy and process improvement initiatives.

Education:

  • Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred.

About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R- Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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