Busines Stratergy and Planning

Overview

The Central Testing team performs evaluation and operational effectiveness testing of internal controls for the First Line of Defence across all business lines and locations of State Street, supporting Business Risk Management in assessing and improving the bank's control environment.

What you'll do

• Evaluate and test internal controls and apply risk-based assurance skills to business units globally on behalf of the BRM team.
• Perform walkthroughs and apply common control testing concepts, such as population identification and sampling.
• Perform and document testing, identify exceptions and their root causes, and present issues to applicable parties.

What you'll need

• 2 to 4 years of experience in performing risk and control assessment, audit, or testing.
• Experience of assessing the design and operating effectiveness of controls to ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements and corporate policy and procedures.
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English to interact and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders including at relatively senior levels.
• Strong organizational and time management skills; ability to perform multiple simultaneous tasks independently in a deadline-driven environment as well as to manage own time in order to meet deadlines.
• Self-motivated and adaptable professional with the ability to prioritize competing priorities while meeting deadlines.
• Intellectual curiosity, analytical and critical thinking skills and an enthusiasm for learning and for developing skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook).

Nice to have

• Complete or partial professional qualification in an audit or related field (e.g. ACCA, ACA, CIA, CFA etc).
• Some familiarity with common risk and control processes and aspects of securities trading, asset management, custody banking, or fund services.
• Some knowledge and awareness of relevant compliance requirements and fundamental regulations (eg. AML/CFT, legal entity governance, etc).
• Experience with any large GRC systems.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Experience in a Big4 or large/multinational financial services company performing work in a general risk management or control and process assessment environment (e.g. SOX, SOC, Internal Audit) is ideal.