Sr Business Control Specialist - Non-Financial Regulatory Reporting Governance

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Job Description:

Global Payments Solutions Business Control team has a centralized Non Financial Regulatory Reporting (NFRR) governance team responsible for overseeing the regulatory change pipeline, tracking regulatory change impact assessments, initiating/directing regulatory implementation programs, facilitating ongoing adherence to applicable laws, rules, regulations and internal Policies & Standards, and coordinating registration of reports within the NFRR Inventory.  In this capacity, the candidate will partner closely with numerous NFRR roles such as Report Owners, Report Preparers, Manual Data Providers, Data partners as well as support partners including Global Operations, Compliance, Audit, Technology, and Finance. 

In this role, the person will be responsible for governance, monitoring, controls, front office adherence to NFRR policy.

Primary Roles & Responsibilities

• Represent GPS as NFRR Governance Delegate in Global and cross-line of business NFRR governance routines and councils

• Partner with GPS teams including Report Owners, Report Preparers and Manual Data providers to maintain consistent routines and controls for managing the GPS NFRR inventory

• Ensuring Quality Assurance (QA) reviews are well designed, adequately prepared for,  and executed flawlessly

 • Ensuring QA scripts are well constructed to focus on quality, sampling methodologies are sound and well documented, communication with stakeholders is clear and effective, and reporting is complete and accurate

• Serve as a point of escalation for reporting errors, risks, and issues to ensure inclusion in applicable FLU/CF Reg Reporting Governance routine

• Ensuring that GPS has Risk Ratings, Internal Control Framework and Manual Data Provider, and Quality Assurance process in place and are NFRR Policy adherent

• Coordinate with the GPS NFRR Governance Executive to monitor and test NFRR Policy adherence of registered reports and respond to Enterprise QA and Audit Team requests

• Evaluating risks associated to Regulatory Reporting process and following the control framework to assess accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of reports.

• Escalate metric issues, resubmissions, methodology changes to senior management (GPS Controls Forum, etc)

• Ensure periodic reviews of metrics logic, documentation and other Rule requirements are performed

• Ensuring reports and changes to reports are accurately reflected in a Governed Report Inventory and associated attributes are complete.

• Support the annual Enterprise Inventory Attestation and governance of all reports including High Risk Reports

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in controls function roles

• Experience with regulatory reporting will be preferred

• Candidate must be a self-motivated, keen attention to detail, and a high energy level individual

• Detail oriented with strong analytical, process, project management and organizational skill

• Strong risk mindset with process and controls background, actively debate and escalate issues and concerns

• Ability to execute assigned tasks independently to meet required deadlines

• Ability to navigate across global and cross-functional teams

• Ability to collaborate, manage, and expand relationships across the organization

• Proven analytical, logical reasoning and problem solving skills

• Strong communication abilities  (written and verbal)

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Desired Skills:

• Project management skills

• Proven track record in being able to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, highly matrix and complex environment

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