Technology Risk & Controls Director

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Position Overview:

This position will lead technology risk and control activities for the Investments & Capital Markets (I&CM) division in McLean VA. The successful candidate will collaborate with personnel in I&CMs Business Technology Office as well as divisional business and risk stakeholders to assess risk design and implement appropriate controls coordinate remediation efforts investigate operational events and consolidate the divisions technology risk profile for senior management!

Our Impact:

The position will also work closely with counterparts and stakeholders in Enterprise Operations & Technology and Finance (other first lines of defense) Enterprise Risk (second line of defense) and Internal Audit (third line of defense).

Your Impact:

• Assessing divisional technology risks and mitigants including impacts of and responses to emerging divisional and enterprise risks
• Identifying technology risk impacts of new initiatives and offerings
• Investigating technology-related operational events
• Coordinating timely risk remediation activities
• Designing reporting and monitoring I&CM risk metrics (e.g. KRIs KPIs)
• Reporting divisional risk to executive management including articulating complex technology risk topics to non-technical stakeholders
• Supporting internal audits and regulatory examinations
• Assisting in self-testing of divisional controls
• Representing I&CM on cross-divisional risk working groups and forums
• Overseeing a team of risk and control professionals through recruitment training coaching performance management and related managerial activities

Qualifications:

• 12 years of audit control compliance or operational risk experience in technology processes supporting financial services
• Bachelors Degree in Finance Accounting or a technology-related field; or equivalent work experience with 4 years of Management experience
• Experience interacting in a risk capacity directly with technology delivery teams
• Experience documenting business processes/functions and assessing adequacy of internal controls
• Experience implementing Sarbanes-Oxley requirements Information Technology General Controls (ITGCs) and/or Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs)

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience in executive management communication
• Ability to influence others and develop effective firm-wide relationships across all lines of defense
• Understanding of capital markets trading including middle/back-office functions is highly desirable
• Familiarity with Freddie Mac specific technology processes is helpful

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