Compliance and Operations Risk Test Lead

Join a team that helps navigate complex risk environments by strengthening control testing and governance. You’ll lead testing execution, partner across teams, and improve how risks and control gaps are identified and addressed.

Job summary
As a Compliance and Operations Risk Test Lead in the risk testing team, you plan and execute testing that aligns to key risks and delivers clear, actionable results. You assess control design and implementation, identify control coverage gaps, and drive timely remediation. You coordinate across stakeholders to ensure consistent execution, reporting, and continuous improvement of the testing framework.

Job responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end testing execution, ensuring activities are completed accurately, on time, and aligned to key risk priorities
- Assess control coverage by evaluating control design, implementation, and operating effectiveness, and identifying gaps
- Solve complex issues by interpreting policies and standards, evaluating alternatives, and recommending practical actions
- Coordinate testing activities across cross-functional partners and maintain clear, timely communication of progress and outcomes
- Improve testing approaches by enhancing control evaluation methods and using control ratings and metrics to strengthen reporting and insights

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

- 3 years of experience executing and managing testing processes within a risk and control environment or a comparable professional setting
- Demonstrated analytical skills, including the ability to organize and evaluate information to identify key issues and underlying drivers
- Experience assessing control environments, identifying control coverage gaps, and verifying control design and implementation
- Ability to coordinate activities across multiple teams, adapt to changing priorities, and plan and organize work independently; experience leading others as needed
- Proficiency using project management methodologies, tools, and techniques to plan, track, and deliver testing work across the lifecycle

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

- Professional certification such as Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or Master of Business Administration in Finance (MBA - Finance)
- Experience in audit and control testing activities
- Experience using analytics and reporting tools such as Alteryx and Tableau to support testing activities, reporting, and metrics analysis
- Demonstrated ability to identify automation opportunities and implement process improvements that enhance testing efficiency and consistency
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint