Risk & Controls Project Manager - MCA

Grow your career with an innovative global bank in New York, NY as a Risk Project Manager with focus on MCA (Manager's Control Assessment). Contract role with strong possibility of extension. Will require working a hybrid schedule 3 days onsite per week.

Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.

Contract Duration: 3+ Months
Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of experience in Financial Services in Business Risk, Operational Risk, Compliance, and/or governance and control.
• Proven experience in MCA Risk Management, including monitoring and identification of risks within an enterprise organization.
• Good understanding of the Risk & control framework and the underlying fundamentals on Risk Management.
• Banking finance industry experience.
• Excellent Excel skills, including pivot tables, reporting & manipulating data.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills; ability to see the big pictures with high attention to critical details.
• Polished verbal & written communication.

What You Will Be Doing

• MCA responsibilities including ensuring all results of control performance are documented, are properly communicated, as well as summarized to senior management.
• Help support the assessment of activities and processes as per required Policies, Standards and Procedures to strengthen risk management quality.
• Help conduct routine testing of internal activities and processes to ensure adherence to established quality standards and identify areas of risk or non-compliance.
• Assist to review stakeholder/client feedback and respond to any quality assurance complaints or issues in a timely and efficient manner.
• Support quality testing performed for business function quality control and transformation lead quality control post completion of an activity/process.
• Help develop and execute Monitoring and Testing for controls, including control design assessment and design of operational effectiveness for monitoring & testing tools, monitoring/testing design assessment, and execution of monitoring/testing tool.
• Support reporting on quality control outcomes and control effectiveness to top management and relevant stakeholders.
• Help teams involved in the end-to-end monitoring of the controls as defined in Risk Management policy.
• Participate in strategic initiatives for control performance enhancements.
• Participate in leadership meetings to analyze documentation and processes to ensure risks and control points are properly addressed.
• Help in Control & Monitoring Design Assessment (CMDA) meetings.
• Help to identify any monitoring breaks and suggest enhancements.
• Providing guidance on the requirements of the EUC Policy/Standard, proper EUC identification and risk assessment, risk reduction planning and execution as well as liaising with the Risk Sector Leads to ensure directives from the Enterprise EUC Central Team are properly communicated to all key stakeholders (Head of DART, Team Leads, EUC Champions, EUC Owners)