Work Location:
New York, New York, United States of America
Hours:40
Line of Business:TD Securities
Pay Detail:$200,000 - $280,000 USD
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Job Description:The role is the senior first-line Governance and Controls leader responsible for establishing and executing the risk and control strategy across Transaction Banking. The role provides an integrated view of material risk, oversees the design and effectiveness of the control environment, and provides effective challenge across business activities, products, operations, technology platforms, and transformation initiatives. The role works closely with senior leaders and risk partners and influences strategic investment, implementation readiness, risk acceptance, remediation, and governance decisions to protect customers, strengthen operational resilience, support regulatory confidence, and enable sustainable business growth.
Depth & Scope:- Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
- Covers business scope of Transaction Banking products, services, payment capabilities, client channels, platforms, data services, operational processes, and associated clearing, settlement, and payment market infrastructure obligations
- Accountable for governance, risk assessment, control design and effectiveness, change risk, operational resilience, issue and incident management, remediation, attestations, regulatory readiness, and executive risk reporting
- Shapes the controls strategy supporting the Transaction Banking Value Creation Plan, global transformation agenda, and material change portfolio
- Provides executive-level challenge and recommendations regarding investment, sequencing, implementation readiness, risk acceptance, remediation, and go-live decisions. The role can escalate material concerns and require accountable owners to provide timely action and supporting evidence
- Operates across Product, Operations, Technology, Change Delivery, Compliance, Legal, Audit, Operational Risk, and other first- and second-line functions in a complex, global, matrixed environment
- Leads a global Business Controls team, including workforce planning, performance management, capability development, succession planning, and deployment of resources against priority risks and transformation initiatives
- Regularly advises Transaction Banking executives, the Business Controls leadership team, senior governance committees, and regulatory or assurance stakeholders
- Decisions and provides recommendations can affect client outcomes, business growth, regulatory confidence, operational resilience, risk exposure, transformation delivery, and the sustainability of the Transaction Banking control environment
Education & Experience:- University degree in business, finance, risk management, economics, law, technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in financial services, including significant executive-level accountability in governance, business controls, risk management, regulatory compliance, transformation, operational resilience, or complex program delivery
- Deep knowledge of Transaction Banking, including payments, liquidity, cash management, trade solutions, client channels, processing platforms, data services, clearing and settlement, and payment market infrastructure
- Advanced understanding of the Three Lines of Defense model, with demonstrated experience leading first-line risk ownership, governance, control design and effectiveness, risk and control self-assessments, key risk indicators, risk appetite, issue management, remediation, attestations, operational loss events, and supporting evidence
- Demonstrated ability to establish a first-line governance and controls strategy, define operating models and decision rights, and hold senior stakeholders accountable while maintaining constructive partnerships with specialist functions and independent second-line oversight
- Proven experience sponsoring or leading enterprise-wide, multi-jurisdictional transformation, integration, control-remediation, or change programs within a complex and highly regulated environment
- Strong understanding of the regulatory, operational, technology, cyber, data, conduct, privacy, financial crime, sanctions, and resilience risks relevant to Transaction Banking and wholesale financial services
- Proven ability to assess material risks, provide effective challenge, escalate significant concerns, and influence investment, prioritization, implementation-readiness, risk-acceptance, and go-live decisions
- Exceptional executive presence, judgment, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex business, payment, technology, and risk matters into clear choices and recommendations for senior executives and governance committees
- Experience developing executive-level management information, risk reporting, key performance and risk indicators, thematic analysis, and program-health assessments
- Strong people-leadership experience, including building and leading high-performing teams, setting measurable objectives, managing performance, coaching and developing talent, and supporting succession planning
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a global, matrixed environment, manage competing priorities, lead through ambiguity, and deliver sustainable outcomes across multiple businesses, functions, legal entities, and jurisdictions
Physical Requirements:Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100%
- Domestic Travel - Occasional
- International Travel - Never
- Performing sedentary work - Continuous
- Performing multiple tasks - Continuous
- Operating standard office equipment - Continuous
- Responding quickly to sounds - Occasional
- Sitting - Continuous
- Standing - Occasional
- Walking - Occasional
- Moving safely in confined spaces - Occasional
- Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) - Occasional
- Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) - Never
- Squatting - Occasional
- Bending - Occasional
- Kneeling - Never
- Crawling - Never
- Climbing - Never
- Reaching overhead - Never
- Reaching forward - Occasional
- Pushing - Never
- Pulling - Never
- Twisting - Never
- Concentrating for long periods of time - Continuous
- Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations - Continuous
- Reading, writing and comprehending instructions - Continuous
- Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing - Continuous
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. The listed or specified responsibilities & duties are considered essential functions for ADA purposes.
