You will be part of building digital products and services across the globe in a start-up atmosphere, backed by one of the leading financial services providers worldwide. If you are intellectually curious, honest, passionate, motivated and want to use and expand your skills while working on a new and exciting venture, you are what we are looking for. 

As a Head of Assurance in Service Operations, you will develop and lead a proactive risk and control culture across the department. You will build, manage and motivate a team that will reduce financial loss, regulatory exposure, and reputational risk.

Job Responsibilities:

• Building and leading a high performing business assurance function, proactively identifying emerging operational risks and lead the resolution
• Overlay your technology, process management and operational risk skills to develop, maintain and lead the delivery of Operational controls
• Identify control gaps, weaknesses, and resolutions in order to reduce financial loss, regulatory exposure, and reputational risk
• Provide ongoing feedback and training as well as support the growth of employees' knowledge of risk concepts and their application to risk and control evaluation
• Support Operational Leaderships Teams, driving governance, developing operating pattern & evolving team structure to drive ownership and optimise talent

Qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant and demonstrable financial service experience in controls, audit, quality assurance, risk management, or compliance preferred
• 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
• Experience working and efficiently delivering in an information technology area / environment is a plus (e.g. IT Auditing, Programming Controls, Data Management and Governance or similar environment)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) 
• Knowledge of banking regulatory environment
• Extensive stakeholder management working with global teams 
• Ability to analyse data-driven situations to formulate appropriate conclusions