AVP - CCO Governance

CCO Governance – Assistant Vice President (AVP)

This role is responsible for strengthening the bank's controls, governance, and risk management framework.

The focus is on assessing control effectiveness, identifying risks, improving existing processes and tools, and delivering high-quality governance and management reporting to senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
• Assess the design and effectiveness of internal controls to mitigate operational, financial, and reputational risks.
• Work closely with 1st Line, 2nd Line & 3rd Line and other stakeholders to document, review, and improve control environments.
• Identify control gaps and weaknesses, prioritize issues based on severity, and track remediation progress.
• Prepare and deliver governance and controls reporting, including committee packs, weekly issue reporting, and senior management updates.
• Execute reviews aligned with internal policies, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices.
• Ensure adherence to the Bank's Controls Framework and apply consistent methodologies for control assessments.
• Support control issue tracking, risk event escalation, gap analysis, and timely communication to stakeholders.
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and automation within controls reporting and governance activities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance existing tools, dashboards, and MI using data and automation.
AVP Expectations
• Advise and influence stakeholders on controls, governance, and risk-related matters.
• Lead or guide teams on complex assignments; coach team members where applicable.
• Take ownership of deliverables, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely execution.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information clearly to senior management.
• Support development of policies, procedures, and methodologies to strengthen the control environment.