Business Controls Oversight Analyst, Specialist

The Vanguard Group•Scottsdale, PA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Business Controls Oversight Analyst evolves the control strategy, operating model, and multi-year control roadmap for Client Administration, aligning them with business objectives, enterprise risk frameworks, and regulatory expectations. The role advises department leadership on risk appetite, emerging risks, control investments, and prioritization, translating risk insights into recommendations that support business outcomes and strengthen risk management. The analyst leads Client Administration’s participation in enterprise and divisional control initiatives and represents the department in cross-functional forums. The role owns departmental control governance forums, control health assessments, metrics, dashboards, reporting, and the Client Administration control inventory. It coordinates risk assessments and oversees issue identification, action planning, remediation, validation, closure, and escalation. The role leads control monitoring and oversight, including control execution, evidence collection, exception management, and assessments of control effectiveness and sustainability. It also leads remediation efforts, control improvements, audits, regulatory reviews, and independent assessments, ensuring related documentation, evidence, management responses, and remediation commitments are complete, accurate, and timely. The analyst drives process improvement, control simplification, and automation, and serves as the department’s controls and governance subject matter expert. The role provides thought leadership, challenges solutions that do not adequately address risk, mentors risk and controls professionals, maintains current knowledge of policies, industry practices, regulatory developments, and emerging risks, and leads special projects and other assigned duties. Vanguard describes its work arrangement as a hybrid model for the majority of crew members, intended to support flexibility as well as in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
At least five years of related business experience, including demonstrated insight into complex risk, controls, governance, audit, or remediation efforts.
Advanced knowledge of business controls, risk management practices, control design, monitoring, testing, issue management, and governance.
Demonstrated ability to establish strategy, shape multi-year direction, and translate enterprise risk expectations into practical operating models.
Judgment, communication, influencing, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
Ability to lead through influence across organizational boundaries and align senior stakeholders on complex risk and control decisions.

Responsibilities

Evolve the Client Administration control strategy, operating model, and multi-year control roadmap in alignment with business objectives, enterprise risk frameworks, and regulatory expectations.
Advise department leadership on risk appetite, emerging risks, control investments, and prioritization, and translate risk insights into recommendations.
Lead Client Administration participation in enterprise and divisional control initiatives and represent the department in cross-functional forums.
Build strategic partnerships across Risk, Compliance, Operations, Product, Technology, Information Security, Internal Audit, and Legal to influence control standards, governance, and risk mitigation.
Own departmental control governance forums, control health assessments, metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
Maintain the Client Administration control inventory and coordinate department risk assessments.
Oversee issue identification, action planning, remediation, validation, closure, and escalation of material risks.
Lead control monitoring and oversight, including control execution, evidence collection, exception management, and assessment of control effectiveness and sustainability.
Lead remediation efforts, control improvements, audits, regulatory reviews, and independent assessments; ensure documentation, evidence, management responses, and remediation commitments are complete, accurate, and timely.
Drive process improvement, control simplification, and automation to reduce risk, improve efficiency and evidence quality, and strengthen scalability of the control environment.
Serve as the department’s controls and governance subject matter expert, provide thought leadership on complex control matters, challenge inadequate risk solutions, and mentor risk and controls professionals.
Maintain current knowledge of Vanguard policies, industry practices, regulatory developments, and emerging risks, and apply that knowledge to strengthen the control environment.
Lead special projects and perform other duties as assigned.