MD - Chief Controls Officer - Technology, Cyber & Resilience
On-siteGlasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom or Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Assess the integrity and effectiveness of the bank's internal control framework to mitigate operational, financial, and reputational risks. Identify and investigate potential weaknesses within internal controls, prioritizing issues by severity to disrupt bank operations. Execute reviews to determine control framework effectiveness against established policies, regulations, and best practices. Set the enterprise control strategy for Technology, Cyber and Resilience, including control simplification, automation, and reporting transformation. Lead a globally distributed organization of approximately 100 colleagues through a director-led structure. Manage end-to-end control domain leadership, ensuring design, standards, metrics, issue management, and regulatory remediation operate as a coherent system. Communicate key findings and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and external stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Deep, enterprise-level mastery of first line risk and control leadership
- Ownership of the end-to-end Technology, Cyber and Resilience control environment
- Setting expectations, governance and assurance approach for proactive risk identification across technology, cyber, resilience and insider threat domains
- Ensuring emerging threats, control weaknesses and systemic vulnerabilities are identified early, escalated clearly and translated into prioritised action
- End-to-end control domain leadership
- Ensuring control design, standards, metrics, issue management, regulatory remediation and resilience obligations operate as a single, coherent system
- Credibility as a former senior technology leader
- Ideally with CIO-level experience
- Practical judgement to challenge technology delivery, cyber risk, resilience readiness and transformation plans from both a business and control perspective
Desired Qualifications
- Experience shaping future control strategy, including control simplification, automation, reporting transformation and business-aligned risk insight
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