Senior Analyst - GCCO Automated Control Testing and Assurance

Job Description

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Location: Bengaluru - Manyata Tech Park

This advice covers Finance, Audit, Treasury, Investor Relations, Security, Capital, General Procurement and Property.Group Treasury is responsible for managing the banks balance sheet which includes Group Funding and liquidity management, capital forecasting and execution, and asset and liability management.

In addition, the Assurance team will provide recommendations on business processes to improve, streamline and simplify the process.

Impact & contribution: You will leverage your detailed knowledge of Treasury and Finance products, processes and environment to coach & advise the Business on effective application of the Operational & Compliance Risk Management Framework:

• Participate in the monitoring, assessment and testing of controls (Automated, ITDM & Manual).
• Assess the design and effectiveness of controls, including how they are operationalised by the business.
• Develop assurance findings, focusing on developing intelligence that protects the organisation and customers from risk.
• Identify any control weaknesses or gaps and perform root cause analysis and reporting requirements.
• Provide advice on remediation strategies and recommendations.
• Contribute to the design of control enhancements, including solutions to digitise and automate controls.
• Identify opportunities to improve controls monitoring, assurance and testing including technology solutions.
• Complete reporting of assurance outcomes and actions.
• Work closely with the business to ensure optimisation of controls testing.
• Contribute to a proactive risk and control culture.
• Liaise with the business & key stakeholders, both domestically and internationally.

Roles & Responsibilities: This role is focused on, but not limited to:

• Execute quarterly automated, ITDM and Manual control assurance testing schedule across Business, financial and Treasury Support Units controls.
• Assure automated, ITDM & manual controls are fit for purpose and meet control objective in mitigating the relevant risks and obligations.
• Support, contribute, question and document walk-throughs held with multiple stakeholders to perform necessary in-depth control testing including code/configuration inspection and scenario testing.
• Draft, execute, document and conclude on automated control design and operational effectiveness testing.
• Review and challenge Business/Support Units on critical data elements coverage, design and operation of automated/semi-automated/manual controls being tested.
• Utilize sound code review, data analytics (by using tools such as Alteryx, Tableau and Power BI) to IT assurance expertise to hold technical discussions on the design and code used for data capture, extract, load and transfer as part of data related control assurance.
• Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on addressing identified control deficiencies.
• Assist the Executive Manager, Senior Manager and Manager to uplift and roll out the automated control testing and continuous monitoring capability and methodology, including leveraging analytics skill set.
• Ability to think innovatively and outside of the box when faced with challenges.
• In this role you will:
• Provide Business/Support Units with an assurance outcome over the design and operating effectiveness of automated/semi-automated & manual controls.
• Work closely with the business, Chief Controls Office (CCO)/Financial services Line 1 Risk community and technology teams in technical code reviews as part of control design and operational effectiveness testing to ensure the control is both fit for purpose and use.
• Drive continuous improvement of the Group's Control Environment through the provision of insights and reporting to enable the timely and effective remediation of controls.
• Drive continuous improvement of CAP through implementation of continuous control monitoring, automation and control rationalization.
• Role-model the Group's values and behaviors.

Essential Skills:

• 5-8 years of experience - Tested and validated automated, ITDM & manual controls.
• Ability to perform code reviews (SQL, Java & Python)
• Experience in Risk, Compliance, IT, Systems Auditing, Risk Management (highly regarded) and treasury functions.
• Experience in IT internal audit, IT risk and financial control testing.
• Minimum of 3 years of client-facing experience with stakeholder management, preferably in financial services.
• Technology risk management experience in large, complex and critical technology/system/IT environments.
• Advance communication level (read, write and speak).
• Professional services skills demonstrated through the analysis, design and review of technology, system, process and control roadmaps.
• Experienced in testing life cycle (i.e., scope, plan, schedule, evaluate, remediate) to testing team, Business Units, technology and data office teams.
• Ability to collaborate with geographically distributed teams across multiple technical areas.
• Expertise in using Data Analytics tools such as Alteryx, Tableau and power BI.
• Excellent data analysis skills and the ability to analyze and report on control assurance activities in risk terms. Proficiency in Australia banking regulatory standards and compliance requirements.

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree/ Master's degree in commerce, Semi qualified CA, CA and MBA Finance or related field.
• CISM, CISA, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE, COBIT, ITIL, CISSP or other IT risk related certifications (e.g., ISO200x, PCI/DSS) holder is preferred.

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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