Senior Risk Management, Controls Manager

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🕒 July 27

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

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National Trust

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10,000+ employees

🤲 Charity

🏨 Hospitality

🛒 Retail

Charity • Hospitality • Retail

National Trust is Europe’s largest conservation organisation and a registered charity that protects and opens historic houses, gardens, parks, countryside and cultural heritage across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It operates a wide range of visitor services — including food & beverage, retail, holidays, visitor experience and educational programming — and runs estate management, conservation, fundraising, volunteer and apprenticeship programmes to care for places and engage millions of visitors each year.

📋 Description

• The Senior Risk Management & Controls Manager is a senior first line of defense leader within Operations, reporting to the Chief Control Officer. • The role owns the design, build-out, and ongoing execution of the first line's risk and control framework. • Translate enterprise risk methodology and regulatory expectations set by the second line of defense into operational controls, control testing, and remediation activity that the business runs. • Perform senior-level risk and control analysis across operational, technology, regulatory, financial-crime, and digital-asset risk domains. • Serve as the principal liaison between Operations and Chief Risk Officer, Chief Compliance Officer organizations, Internal Audit, and executive leadership. • Guide fellow first-line teams on risk identification, control design, and remediation execution. • Build, maintain, and continuously improve the first line's control framework. • Lead first-line control testing, control quality assurance (QA), and self-identified issue management. • Own the first-line side of the Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA). • Maintain traceability between processes, risks, controls, issues, key risk indicators (KRIs), and remediation plans.

🎯 Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Risk Management, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline. • Experience: Minimum 8–12 years of progressive experience in operational risk, business controls, internal controls, internal audit, or regulatory compliance within a bank, broker-dealer, fintech, or digital-asset firm; at least 3 years in a senior or lead role within a first-line control function (CCO/COO organization). • Program Ownership: Demonstrated ownership of a first-line control program — including procedure drafting, control testing/QA, RCSA execution, and issue management. • Digital Assets: Working knowledge of digital asset / cryptocurrency operational risk: custody models, key management, on-chain analytics, stablecoins, DeFi exposure pathways, smart-contract risk, and Travel Rule compliance. • Regulatory: Strong command of COSO Internal Control – Integrated Framework, COSO ERM, ISO 31000, FFIEC IT and BSA/AML examination handbooks, OCC Heightened Standards, SR 11-7 / SR 26-2, and SOX (where applicable). • Executive Presence: Demonstrated success briefing C-suite, board committees, examiners, and internal/external auditors with clarity, candor, and credibility.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance • 401(k) • Life and disability insurance