Manager, Capital Governance & Controls

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

The Treasury Capital Management team is seeking a Manager, Capital Governance & Controls to help establish and mature first‑line governance, control, and documentation standards across the capital management lifecycle. In this highly visible role, you will connect people, processes, and control partners to strengthen how critical capital activities are documented, governed, and sustained.

This is an opportunity to help build a new capability while gaining broad exposure across capital management, governance, controls, operational resilience, and regulatory readiness. Your work will help improve execution discipline, clarify accountability, strengthen evidence standards, and prepare the organization for audit, regulatory, and business continuity needs.

You will collaborate with partners across Risk Management, Internal Audit, Regulatory Reporting, Legal, Accounting, and Technology. If you enjoy bringing structure to complex work, influencing across teams, and creating practical solutions that support long‑term resilience, this role offers meaningful work and the opportunity to grow your impact as part of One Schwab.

This is a first‑line role focused on governance execution, control readiness, process discipline, and operational resilience. The role does not perform independent second‑line challenge, Internal Audit testing, formal assurance, forecast or capital‑action approval, capital methodology ownership, policy ownership, or routine production of capital reports or forecasts.

• Maintain an end-to-end inventory of critical capital processes, risks, controls, evidence, and key dependencies across the capital management lifecycle.
• Establish practical, sustainable control and documentation standards that promote consistency and support regulatory and audit readiness.
• Coordinate control‑readiness activities with Risk Management, Internal Audit, Regulatory Reporting, Legal, Accounting, and Technology risk and control partners.
• Facilitate periodic process, risk, and control assessments to identify documentation gaps, control weaknesses, operational dependencies, and opportunities to improve resilience.
• Partner with process owners and stakeholders to clarify accountability, strengthen evidence practices, and advance sustainable remediation.
• Prepare clear, executive‑ready reporting on process health, remediation status, documentation completeness, and control‑readiness priorities.
• Help build a culture of thoughtful governance, shared accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration across the capital management lifecycle.

Location & Work Arrangement:
This hybrid role requires four days per week in the office and one remote workday. Candidates must live in, or be willing to relocate to one of the listed locations.

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of “challenging the status quo,” this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in a regulated Financial Services, Treasury, Finance, or related environment.
• Strong process documentation and control‑design skills, including the ability to translate complex activities into clear process flows, control points, evidence expectations, and…