Audit and Risk and Control Enablement Lead

Role Description

The Audit and Risk and Control enablement leadrequires to act as the glue to pull together all mandatory controls, initiatives, and key stakeholder.

The Audit and Risk and Control enablement leadwill work and support CIO/CIO-1/IT Application Owners, DWS Risk and Control team, DCRO and Audit in all aspects of proactive technology risk identification and audit support.

The Audit and Risk and Control enablement leadmanages all IT Application Owners activities around security and audit programs. In collaboration with DWS Risk and Control, DWS CSO team they clarify requirements from control owners and other stakeholders, coordinate needed approvals, and implement the results in control workbench / special JIRA Project.

Your key responsibilities

• Establish a proactive risk culture with simplified governance, improved application stability and investment in reduction of manual support activity in production.
• Manage the critical book of work for Risk & Controls by the dates committed.
• Full support of the current automation process of the risk task management. Help translating business requirements (compliance/audit initiatives) to a system based IT solution to converge to overall strategic objectives.

This involves:

• Working closely in the requirements gathering phase to determine key data input, outputs and functional processes from a front to back perspective
• Determine the golden sources for the information, investigate the ways of automation
• Identifies what processes can be automated
• Identifies all access/accounts/actions to collect the data for the reporting with data sources to dbIB (NAR) and JIRA (Data from REST API)

Develop the automation of the current solutions by:

• Works with technical leads and application architects to identify areas for automation
• Develops automation scripts
• Articulates key risks to program/project management
• Work with Risk and Control and IT management to face off to audit processes
• Informational Support of IT Application Owners:
• Works with application owners to provide the high level information about compliance initiatives

Your skills and experience

• Experience working in the financial industry (10+ years) and in particular risk technology
• Broad understanding of data and its usage within financial industry including reference, trade, market and risk data
• Ability to assimilate large quantities of information in short periods of time
• Understanding and experience of the SDLC
• Non-Financial Risk Management and Technology Risk Management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to relay complex information to a variety of end users from developers to senior managing directors within the business.
• Proactively, initiate, develop and maintain effective working relationships with senior management, team members and the business

Business Competencies:

• Change Leadership (Experienced)
• Managing Security (Experienced)
• Customer/stakeholder Relationship Management (Experienced)

Technical Competencies:

• Business/functional analysis (Experienced)
• Project Management skills (Experienced)