Senior Manager 2LoD Testing Lead – Risk Data and Reporting

TD • Charlotte, NC

17d

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Governance & Control oversees and leads a highly complex and diverse governance and control function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope usually involving medium to long-term planning, ensuring an integrated approach with other business governance and control areas, the broader organization and enterprise control functions.

The 2LOD Testing Lead – Risk Data and Reporting is responsible for planning, scoping, and overseeing the execution of independent 2LoD testing across regulatory and internal risk reporting, data management, and liquidity risk management processes. This role requires in-depth knowledge of risk data aggregation and reporting, regulatory instructions and requirements for key risk reports such as FR 2052a, FR Y9C, the Call Report, FR Y14Q/M, as well as liquidity risk management framework and leading industry practices. This role leads a team of testers to perform effective review and challenge of 1LoD and 2LoD processes and controls, assess end-to-end data integrity across technology systems, understand and validate the calculation and reporting logic and assess the conformance of regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Deep industry and business knowledge and expertise on risk and control functions
• Advanced knowledge of governance, risk and control procedures, strategies & tactics
• Advanced knowledge of risk management environment, standards, regulations and mitigation
• Knowledge of current and emerging trends
• Skill in managing budgets and resource allocation
• Skill in mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Skill in using analytical software tools, data analysis methods and reporting techniques
• Skill in using computer applications including MS Office
• Advanced ability to lead, plan, implement and evaluate program/project activities to ensure completion
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form
• Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships across teams and functions
• Ability to work successfully as a member of a team and independently
• Ability to exercise sound judgement in making decisions
• Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines
• Ability to process and handle confidential information with discretion
• Ability to establish goals and objectives that support the strategic plan
• Ability to contribute to strategic direction of the strategic initiatives and projects

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or relevant certifications (e.g., CRISC, CISA, CIA, CPA) preferred
• Experience in risk management, internal audit, compliance testing, or a related field within financial services
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and expectations related risk data and aggregation (e.g., BCBS 239) and liquidity risk management (e.g., Reg YY)
• Experience with regulatory reporting systems (e.g., Axiom) and data warehouse, and ability to work with large datasets and perform data analytics
• Experience leading teams and managing complex testing programs
• Strong attention to detail and ability to get to the root cause of issues and observations

Responsibilities

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
• Oversees and leads a highly complex and diverse function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope while growing talent, developing skills and capabilities to achieve career goals, support project/initiative success and achieve business results
• Manages and oversees the overall discipline and strategy for the respective areas while aligning to the enterprise best practices
• Provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business, executives within area of expertise
• Acts as a strategic partner to leadership team on the management of the function, with deep industry, external/internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and; identifying operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management/enterprise areas
• Sets operational team direction and collaborates with others to execute on common goals
• Focuses on longer-range planning for functional area (e.g. 12 months or greater)
• Leads 2LoD testing team to execute independent 2LoD testing of risk data aggregation and reporting and liquidity risk management, including test scoping and planning, execution, issue tracking and reporting
• Independently assess the materiality and risk rating of in scope regulatory and internal risk management reports to determine the testing frequency, testing scope, key data element selection and testing approach
• Manages the testing inventory and incorporates changes in the regulatory landscape as well as internal risk profile to update the testing universe and test plans
• Owns the end-to-end testing and validation work from planning to execution, issues assessment and socialization, monitoring and reporting
• Acts as the subject matter expert in the technical risk management and reporting areas (e.g., liquidity ratio calculation, liquidity stress testing) and regulatory requirements and instructions (e.g., FRB, OCC, FFIEC, Basel) to lead the team in transaction testing of key reports
• Interacts with stakeholders from risk management, data management, technology, model owners and validators, to identify, understand and validate data lineage, data transformation and aggregation across systems, EUCs, models and reporting tools
• Leads the discussion with stakeholders confirm identified control weaknesses, emerging risks, and potential compliance gaps, and discuss, assess and confirm remediation plans
• Develops, communicates and implements a holistic governance and control strategy for own specific business function in support of and integrated with the overall business strategy
• Manages and plans activities that require alignment across multiple areas
• Leads the implementation of regulatory change management and provides guidance to the team in the development and/or integrated implementation of policies/procedures/changes across multiple business/functional areas
• Leads partnership with management and respective teams for area of specialization with industry, enterprise, and business awareness; recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and; identifying issues and opportunities and recommending actions to senior management
• Ensures all administration, control and compliance activities are complete and accurate to meet targets for own area
• Ensures an integrated and aggregated view of all related business risk and control activities across the overall function providing escalations, recommendations, and decision support to leadership
• Forecasts programs/initiatives and demand, and coordinates prioritization of the portfolio/initiatives with key stakeholders
• Provides functional/business level communications to ensure messages to stakeholders and/or employees are consistent, appropriate and aligned to business risk strategies and executive management direction
• Provides direction to complex, wide-ranging enterprise or cross-function/business projects as a SME and participates in designing, testing, and implementation of solutions
• Works closely with senior management to develop business plan, ensuring the optimal use of resources and leverages TD’s operating model to maximize efficiency, effectiveness and scale
• Leads interface and relationships with corporate and/or control functions to ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• Assesses/identifies key issues and escalates to appropriate levels and relevant stakeholders and business management where required
• Identifies, mitigates and reports on risk issues per enterprise policy/guidance and ensures appropriate escalation processes are followed
• Ensures business operations are in compliance with applicable requirements (e.g. financial controls, segregation of duties, transaction approvals and physical control of assets)
• Leads or contributes to cross-functional/enterprise initiatives as a SME helping to identify risk/provide guidance for complex situations
• Manages oversight process, risk-based identification and monitoring of related risks and regulatory compliance across the supported functions, while ensuring key controls and processes are effectively managed
• Oversees or leads the facilitation and/or implementation of action/remediation plans to address performance/risk/governance issues
• Protects the interests of the organization – identifies and manages risks, and escalates non-standard, high-risk transactions/activities as necessary
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
• Responsible for management of the overall team providing both leadership, guidance, and expertise; ensures team adheres to enterprise frameworks and methodologies
• Supports team in staying knowledgeable on emerging issues, trends and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts to the Bank
• Leads a high-performing team; provides ongoing feedback and performance reviews, coaches and develops employees and ensures performance management activities are undertaken and completed for all employees
• Leads the process of setting performance objectives for the team; tracks, monitors and effectively addresses and/or rewards performance in a timely manner
• Manages employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures and guidelines of conduct
• Supports an environment where team freely escalates business challenges; facilitates change through positive reinforcement of milestones and successes
• Recruits for all hires to ensure a highly diverse, qualified workforce to achieve business objectives
• Establishes and fosters a cohesive team; promotes a fair and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce and encourages the team to achieve common goals and objectives
• Acts as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the Bank

Benefits

• Total Rewards at TD includes base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g., eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards, generally through participation in an incentive plan) and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO), banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees