Fire control officer job description

The LATAM Regional Risk & Control Officer is accountable for coordinating and supporting multiple risk control programs for the organization, including defining the strategy, approach, processes, quality, tools and reporting that provide regional risk management consistency and excellence. Position requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within the Risk function and how they interact with each other in order to achieve the objectives set.
Responsibilities:

* Provide supervision of Risk Control efforts and assist with prioritizing and addressing roadblocks encountered.
* Identify areas of engagement based on level of exposure, inherent risk, complexity of change and other risk factors.
* Drive Manager's Control Assessment monitoring, quarterly approvals and improvements required.
* Conduct continuous, quarterly and annual Risk Assessments, ensuring comprehensive execution, quality and completeness of LATAM Risk MGE ARCMs (including EMPs).
* Utilize Issue Management processes and project management methodology from the initiation, planning, control requirements, execution, and closing phases of each issue.
* Assist on coordination of reviews conducted by Internal and External reviewers.
* Support the Regulatory Change Management process within Risk team to ensure proper governance and controls exist.
* Execute Model Risk oversight in the LATAM CRO Organization, including semi-annual model inventory & attestation and EUC identification.
* Work closely with business partners on findings and making recommendations on improving practices.
* Act as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
* Leverage reporting to identify trends, themes and areas requiring improved controls.
* Examine procedures for consistency and gaps relative to regulations in addition to impacts on the organization.
* Ensure that emerging risks identified are socialized with key stakeholders and mitigation strategies are in place.
* Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

* 6-10 years relevant work experience in Business Risk & Controls.
* Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
* Effective organizational influencing skills required.
* Excellent problem solving skills Ability to see the big pictures with high attention to critical details.
* Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategy and process improvement initiatives.
* Ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
* Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
* Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
* English and Spanish language required.

Education:

* Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree.

Deutsche Bank (DB) is committed to the highest standards of control in the areas of Compliance and Anti-Financial Crime (AFC). The Compliance Department promotes and enforces compliance with the law as well as drives a culture of compliance and ethical conduct in the Bank. AFC covers Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions and Embargoes (SAE), and Anti-Fraud Bribery and Corruption (AFBC). The AFC Department is accountable for protecting DB from financial and reputational losses incurred by financial crimes by assessing, controlling and mitigating relevant risks. The Management and all employees are required to adhere to AFC standards to protect DB and our reputation from those who intend to use our products and services for money laundering, bribery, corruption, fraud, market abuse and/or terrorist financing purposes.

Controls Testing & Assurance (CT&A) includes Compliance Testing (CT) and AFC Testing (AFCT) aspect. Compliance Testing is responsible for providing assurance on the design and operating effectiveness of the business' control environment and/or adherence to the applicable regulations and the Bank's policies. The Testing Officer in the Netherlands develops and executes an annual testing plan, which consists of mandatory and risk-based tests, and that covers the Compliance risk types across all businesses in the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. Additional monitoring checks may be executed on an ad-hoc basis. Where required, CT Netherlands may also support other CT locations with their testing.

In addition to the above, the Testing Officer may be involved in AFC Testing. AFCT is a core component of the AFC programme formulated and directed by the Global Head of AFC. It provides assurance to the Management Board, Global Head of AFC and key stakeholders as to the design and/or operating effectiveness of the control framework to manage the Bank's financial crime risks by undertaking risk based Testing.
Key Responsibilities

* Support the creation of the multi-year testing plan for all in-scope countries that covers the right risks and is in line with the global methodology.
* Undertake testing acitivites according to the testing plan to satisfy the mandatory and risk-based requirements for testing, to the deadlines agreed and the standards defined in the global testing framework.
* Communicate testing results using high quality reports.
* Proactively engage with the business to agree issues and remediation actions from testing activities. Track issues and actions to completion.
* Update the relevant tracking system timely and accurately with information on the reviews, tests, checks and their progress.
* Support continuous enhancement of the testing programme by identifying improvements and implementing them, while ensuring the programme remains aligned to the global framework.
* Produce high quality management information (MI) on the reviews, tests, checks and the findings identified to enable read-across (e.g. with other countries or divisions) and to allow continuous improvement of controls and processes.
* Establish and maintain effective communication channels and working relationships with the relevant stakeholders in the business and other control functions (e.g. DCO, BCU, NFRM, Internal Audit, COO, Risk, etc.) to ensure a coordinated approach and effective resolution of issues.

You will have:

* A university degree or other closely related professional qualification.
* 4 years+ of experience gained from Compliance, AFC, Audit, Risk or other type of regulatory background within the financial services industry.
* Experience on assessing and/or testing the design and operating effectiveness of Compliance and AFC control frameworks, including investigation activities. Good understanding of compliance and financial crime risks and internal controls.
* Excellent knowledge of the financial markets rules and regulations in Europe.
* Good knowledge of banking/financial markets business environment and products.
* Excellent analytical skills with a strong attention to detail.
* Excellent writing skills, including the ability to describe complex issues clearly and succinctly in ways that are easily understandable by others.
* Strong communication and negotiation skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to communicate effectively across all three lines of defence. An ability to align multiple stakeholders towards a common goal.
* Good skills with Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
* Language skills: fluent in English as a minimum, another European language is a plus.

You will be:

* Structured and organised in approach, demonstrating a high level of diligence and attention to detail plus having the ability to ensure high quality and consistency in the deliverables produced.
* Results orientated and able to work independently and accurately in a fast paced environment within tight deadlines while prioritising workload with limited supervision.
* Proactive - will seek to find the right solution and options to issues within and outside their specific remit, without being prompted and within an appropriate matrix management framework.
* Assertive and engaging and able to quickly build and maintain effective working relationships.
* Positive, collaborative and flexible and able to operate successfully in a constantly changing environment.

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