Lead Operational Risk & Internal Control Specialist
Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
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Job Description
Responsible for developing and enhancing the risk and control environment within the Consumer Banking businesses. This role collaborates with management to identify compliance issues and corrective action plans, and communicates the scope and severity of concerns identified to the applicable level of management. Works with minimal supervision.
Responsibilities
- Analyzes risk and operations data. Interprets data for the purpose of supporting key business goals, such as risk environment monitoring and risk mitigation.
- Works across departments to coordinate initiatives.
- Supports management in preparing presentations and reports.
- Assess processes for risk and control effectiveness. Supports the control design process and assess processes for any control gaps or enhancements needed to ensure effectiveness of controls.
- Evaluate and test the adequacy of business processes and practices with respect to risks, controls, and regulatory requirement identifying gaps and issues.
- Identify systemic improvement themes across control design reviews e.g. Training, Roles and Responsibilities, Communication, Standards that can be solved programmatically. Support drafting of a comprehensive risk & control summary to highlight conclusions
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance
- 4+ years of experience in Audit, Risk, Operations
- In lieu of degree 6+ years of experience in Audit, Risk, Operations or Related
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
- Lean, Six Sigma and/or demonstrated process improvement expertise
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.