Controller/business manager job description

The candidate will support the Consumer Investments/Financial Center Regulatory and Issues Management team in creating a best-in-class overall client experience and risk controls environment. The role will help drive engagement across the enterprise to identify and lead execution on strategic opportunities to implement and mitigate key controls controls for a growing, highly regulated business. Initiatives will focus on risk management across Consumer Investments and Financial Center, driving integration where appropriate of our processes, further streamlining existing processes, associate/client experience, and support of the overall Consumer Investments/Financial Center Regulatory and Issues Management controls strategy.
More specifically, this role will require the candidate to:

* Support development of the Consumer Investments/Financial Center Regulatory and Issues Management strategic vision, document the strategy, communicate across enterprise partners and execute effectively.
* Drive execution of key strategic initiatives and cross team initiatives (i.e. process efficiency and risk mitigation opportunities)
* Track and monitor performance metrics for team and organizational opportunities

Assist in the execution of internal control discipline and operational excellence within a LOB or ECF. Execute LOB/ECF specific processes and tools to drive adherence to enterprise-wide Standards. Support the implementation of QA/QC processes within the LOB/ECF through ongoing monitoring and testing of controls. Identify issues and/or control improvements for remediation, whilst assisting in building out actions plans and milestones. Acts as an ambassador of the risk culture. Develop and direct staff. Incumbents typically have over 8+ years of risk management and LOB/ECF experience.

Required:

Understanding of Merrill Edge clients and business

* Understanding of Financial Center clients and business
* Demonstrates leadership and ability to influence, leading small, medium, and large scale initiatives through change and process improvements to deliver results
* Strong PowerPoint skills with ability to tell story on paper at executive level
* Demonstrated ability to track and drive execution on priorities, including driving accountability across lines of business and peer group
* Self-starter able to work independently, with minimal oversight and guidance
* Strong organization skills, including the ability to manage multiple responsibilities, prioritize and meet deadlines
* Strong communication/presentation skills
* 5 or more years work experience in financial services
* Provide statistical analysis to identify trends and outlier metrics
* Knowledge of brokerage industry, internal brokerage policies and procedures and mitigation strategies
* Ability to influence others with effective negotiating skills

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Join us as a Specialist Business Control Manager, Upstream Risk

* This specialist role will see you partnering with the business and Risk function to identify, assess and manage its risks within agreed risk appetite, using the organisation's risk frameworks
* Within this specialist capacity, you'll make a vital contribution to driving a generative culture of risk awareness, ensuring the organisation's strategies are delivered safely, recommending solutions to operations and policy that meet legislative, regulatory or political changes from jurisdictional regulators or standard setters
* Hone your risk awareness skills and advance your career in this fast-paced and varied role, with a firm emphasis on your development
* We're offering this role for a period of 12 months

What you'll do

We'll look to you to support the delivery of a robust regulatory risk governance framework in line with the operational risk handbook and conduct and compliance handbook. You'll engage with Risk Colleagues and RBSI business SMEs to review and assess the impact of regulatory changes, building credible and realistic plans and recommendations to move and sustain regulatory compliance and support the control environment certification rating within risk appetite.

Other key responsibilities are to include:

* Lead the FLoD Upstream Risk unit to proactively drive the prioritisation of assessment, implementation of regulatory risk framework and policy compliance and changes, converting these into appropriate strategies and action plans
* Supporting management in their identification and assessment of regulatory changes, and in determining their position relative to agreed appetites
* Collaborating with senior stakeholders to support the development and delivery of remedial action plans
* Demonstrating risk leadership and advocacy, supporting a culture of proactive and pre-emptive risk management and continuous improvement
* Coaching and supporting colleagues to improve understanding, and embed a proactive risk culture

The skills you'll need

As a highly skilled and analytical leader, you'll bring experience of applying regulatory risk and control management in an operational and strategic context, and demonstrate strong knowledge of risk assessment and reporting to senior stakeholders.

You'll also bring:

* A strong level of business or operational experience coupled with understanding of regulatory compliance
* Proven experience of line manager duties such as leading, coaching and motivating people
* Experience of dealing with senior stakeholders on a regular basis
* A high level of analytical communication and influencing skills
* Experience in policy development or implementation

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

27/10/2022

Remote Position: Yes

Region: Americas

Country: USA

**Summary**

The Business Controls Manager - Supply Chain Management (SCM) works in support of Supply Chain and has responsibility for global business processes at Celestica (CLS). Our mission is to foster a culture where governance, risk and compliance becomes an integral part of our business processes, driving value to CLS through the creation of Smarter controls, standardization of processes and resultant efficiency. We provide advice, counsel and guidance to management in Supply Chain to assist with the proper effectiveness and efficiency of day to day operations. This position is to ascertain the adequacy and reliability of internal controls, minimize risk exposures, ensure that the operations are being carried out in line with company's policies & procedures and recommend operational improvements. The role will work closely and collaborate with our Internal Audit function, SCM Primes, Operational Leads, and Site GM & Staff. Influences others outside of team to ensure goals are met and resolve conflicts in an effective manner. Leads resolutions to non-conformances and/or improved performance to target through multi-functional work groups, and provides advice and guidance in area of specialty as required. May determine new methods and procedures. Seeks out new avenues for building internal relationships, and interfaces with senior managers on issues related to the area of expertise, KPI Performance to target and corrective actions. Interacts with and influences management on significant issues.

**Responsibilities Include:**

+ The decisions made by this role results in enhancing controls and minimizing risk exposures, increase in process effectiveness and efficiency, and reduction in costs.

+ Requests, gathers and provides basic guidance on internal controls and risk management for the company.

+ Monitors and Leads continuous improvement actions for Key Process Indicators (KPI).

+ Provides internal controls advice worldwide and develops tools to assist with control advice and communication.

+ Execute activities around the schedule of site teams and demonstrate tact and diplomacy when handling sensitive issues.

+ Will interface with internal auditors at manager's request.

+ Executes internal activities as either a team member, lead auditor or remote facilitator and ensures follow up plans are acted upon and closed.

+ Approves corporate and global risk acceptances.

**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies:**

+ Understands Supply Chain, inventory management, manufacturing, and purchasing principals

+ Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.

+ Analytical and statistical skills.

+ Understands and can apply Corporate and General Accounting Policies

+ Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.

+ Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.

+ Understands the inter-relationships between departments and actively participates in cross-functional teams.

+ Understands audit requirements and standards

+ Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.

+ Knowledge of computer applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and multiple business applications.

+ Can create basic spreadsheet macros with additional skills in Pivot Tables and VLookup.

+ Working knowledge of ERP applications (SAP)

+ Frequent overnight travel may be required - 25-50%

**Experience:**

+ 8+ years of relevant work experience in Supply Chain, Operations or Finance.

+ 2+ years of Internal Audit/Internal Controls experience in a Manufacturing environment is an asset but not a requirement.

**Education**

Bachelor's degree in related field (Materials Management, Engineering, or Business) or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Celestica's policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Location: This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.

Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.