Senior Vice President, Governance Manager of Risk/Compliance Testing Group (2LoD)

The governance and reporting role within the Risk and Compliance Assurance Testing (RCAT) function, is accountable for designing and maintaining the testing framework and providing oversight and reporting support for all RCAT operations. The role is responsible for the design and implementation of the framework, policies and standards ensuring that testing is appropriately executed, maintain sufficient coverage of regulatory requirements, and reporting and oversight of operations.

By driving strong compliance culture, transparency and effective challenge through independent testing, the role directly supports BNY’s delivery of resilient and trusted platforms and protecting clients and the firm. 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain policies, standards, and procedures, and propose changes to process and controls as needed. 
• Oversee RCAT operations and ensure timelines and quality work product meet standards and framework requirements.
• Support governance and reporting process by contributing to internal RCAT meetings, key stakeholder meetings, forums, and committees.
• Support communication model and provide trainings related to testing methodology to RCAT team members.
• Anticipate and respond to stakeholder requests/meetings and ensure the function’s practices remain aligned with industry best practice and regulatory expectations.
• Engage with Internal Audit on testing to streamline coverage and communicate status of open issues and validation results.

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree (in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Accounting, Risk Management, or Law), or an equivalent combination of education. 
• Direct experience in governance, risk, compliance, and/or audit roles. 
• Governance, Compliance, Risk, Control and/or Testing proficiency. 
• Demonstrate record of thought leadership in control testing domains.

EXPERIENCE

• Typically, 10+ years of experience
• Strong strategic leadership, stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to provide credible challenge and partner effectively with senior executives, regulators and cross‑functional teams.
• Exceptional risk judgment and decision‑making capabilities, with the ability to balance innovation and business needs. 

SKILLS