Location: Columbus, OH, United States

Join our HR Control Management (CM) Team today! This team maintains a strong and consistent control environment through a joint accountability model that align managers with each line of business, function and region to mitigate operational risk. The team focuses on four areas: Risk Identification & Assessment, Control Design & Evaluation, Issues & Control Deficiencies and Control Governance & Reporting. 

As a Control Manager Vice President in the HR Controls team, you will be part of a team that ensures strong and consistent controls are observed across the firm. Your role involves fostering a proactive risk and control culture, engaging with HR business leaders to assess strategies, guide risk management, and identify process improvements. Additionally, you will lead the identification and management of operational risks, provide independent risk advisory support, and oversee the execution of  Control and Operational Risk Evaluation (CORE) to mitigate financial, regulatory, and reputational risks.

Job Responsibilities

• Create a proactive risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols
• Review and analyze program related data (e.g., KRI/KPI) to proactively identify existing and emerging Operational risks and issues to support business-related programs and strategies
• Provide leadership support for the end-to-end execution of the Control and Operational Risk Evaluation (CORE), including control deficiencies and resolutions, to reduce financial loss, regulatory exposure, and reputational risk
• Engage with control colleagues across the firm, business, operations management, legal, compliance, risk, audit, regulators and technology control functions
• Lead the identification, escalation, monitoring and measuring of operational risk in accordance with firm-wide operational risk programs
• Lead and provide independent risk and control advisory support and risk challenge, inclusive of targeted reviews, root cause analysis, and developing sustainable and strategic risk mitigation solutions
• Provide additional process and program portfolio support, activities may including but not limited to:  Control Operational Risk Evaluation (CORE), Office of Legal Obligations (OLO), Inter Affiliate Services (IAS) and other control programs

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
• 7+ years of experience in HR, controls, audit, quality assurance, risk management, or compliance 
• Proficient knowledge of control and risk management concepts with the ability to design, create and evaluate the operational risk and control environment in conjunction with business partners
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence business leaders in a meaningful and actionable manner
• Exceptional interpersonal skills along with exceptional collaboration and relationship building skills
• Ability to understand a process and associated risk to inform control design
• Solid critical thinking, attention to detail and analytical skills
• Able to synthesize large amounts of data and formulate appropriate conclusions including understanding root cause/identifying control deficiencies, developing timely and sustainable solutions and analyzing metrics for emerging risk

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Flexible, adaptable to shifting priorities and able to manage competing priorities to achieve the most effective result and able to work in a fast-paced, results focused environment
• Excellent change management, decision making, problem solving, continuous improvement, executive communication, and teamwork skills
• Implementation skills including writing action plans and procedures and the ability to make subjective and informed decisions based upon output, influence stakeholders and justify decision making
• Human Resources experience
• Financial Services experience

Additional Information

• This role requires the ability to physically work in our offices 5 days a week
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to provide immigration sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment/work visa at this time (including but not limited to H1B, H4 – EAD, OPT, TN, or L visas)
• Final Job Grade level and corporate title will be determined at time of offer and may differ from this posting
• This role does not provide relocation assistance so all candidates must be local to the work locations listed in the job posting or willing to relocate on their own immediately upon hiring

As a Control Manager, you will be part of a team that ensures strong and consistent controls are observed across the firm.