The successful individual will build and maintain vital relationships with all facets of Business and Technology organizations.

Leadership and Management

• Provide strategic thinking, thought leadership, and guidance on identifying key risks and assessing the design and operating effectiveness of controls supporting applications and large programs.
• Plan, oversee and direct the activities of Technology division to achieve the organization objectives, and for timely reporting on test, control, audit and regulatory matters to executive management.
• Show integrity and a risk minded approach to challenges and a sustained drive to ensure completion of objectives.
• Establish strong working relationships and communications with key stakeholders globally.

Operational:

• Ensure that the Technology organization is enabled to meet their objectives, including internal and external requirements. Manage global staff to ensure day-to-day technology operations are effective.
• Develop and review periodic metrics and ensure key messages are communicated to stakeholders across all technology and business areas.
• Show the ability to communicate complex problems into a simplified way, that would then support a discussion with senior management/stakeholders.
• Conduct and/or manage special projects and ad hoc requests to support the senior leadership team.
• Work closely with the business continuity management and risk partners to ensure a unified approach to resiliency across the organization.

Skills:

• 15+ years experience in Application development domain.
• 5+ years of experience managing multiple Technology Application development teams, preferably in a Director role.
• Solid understanding of financial services technology landscape, preferably in Corporate Action & Income processing domain.
• Extensive experience in planning and execution of large scale Technology Development Programs.
• Experience interfacing at executive level to represent and support technology initiatives/goals.
• Experience managing multiple vendor resources/contracts in support of program objectives.
• Experience managing applications ranging from legacy Mainframe, vended applications & Cloud based technologies (Azure, PCF).

Competencies:

• Highly motivated, self-starter who deals well with ambiguity and can drive execution across an organization.
• Ability to develop a strategic plan and drive through strategic & tactical deliverables.
• Strong critical thinking, analytical, leadership and organizational skills with ability to quickly grasp issues & solve problems
• Proven ability to build relationships, influence and motivate teams across the organization in order to ensure that the slate of work is established, understood, supported and completed.
• Monitor and/or deliver on key audits, remediation or regulatory requirements.
• Ability to challenge and influence stakeholders of differing viewpoints to reach consensus.
• Ability to gather and interpret data and information in different forms and / or states of maturity, and synthesize into a clear message.
• Ability to establish executable work plans and establish KPIs/KPIs to measure success of the organization.