Sr. Manager​/Director, Risk & Compliance

• Full-time
• Business Segment: NBCU Corporate
• Compensation: USD 115,000 - USD 190,000 - yearly

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Role

Purpose:

Reporting to the Vice President, Risk & Compliance, the Senior Manager/ Director, Risk & Compliance is responsible for helping design / establish a robust risk and compliance framework for Global Controllership including leading the advisory / maintenance for Global Finance Operations (GFO). The framework should ensure that all enterprise-wide accounting compliance programs, processes and technologies are consistent with NBCUniversal’s policies and procedures as well as applicable laws and regulations.

Our GFO model today encompasses three service towers;
Accounts Payable, Order to Cash, and Record to Report and has ~100 FTE NBCU team members supported by ~350 FTE in offshore locations. Services are provided to a wide range of business groups in a large number of countries.

While having the ground floor opportunity of bridging a multi-year S/4 finance transformation implementation with a post go-live compliance and advisory function, this role provides leadership in Security, Risk, and Controls (SRC) activities including process-level risks and developing / maintaining a company-wide Risk & Control Matrix (RCM). The Senior Manager / Director partners closely with the S/4 project team, Global Controllership across GFO, Corporate, and Business Units;
Operations & Technology (O&T); and various compliance groups to ensure risks are identified, mitigated, and appropriately controlled within an evolving financial systems landscape.

Here You Will:

Design

• Build and support the design and maintenance of a company-wide Global Controllership and GFO risk, compliance, and control framework which includes the identification of risks, appropriate controls, and ensures that robust monitoring & reporting is in place.
• Ensure that the risk, compliance, and control framework meets all internal and external requirements and is tested regularly against external best practice.
• Help design and implement effective controls to mitigate SoD risk ensuring they are practical, sustainable, and auditable.
• Help maintain efficient and effective governance structures internal to NBCU and with offshore partner which has regular cadence, clear accountabilities and is focused on ongoing improvements and reducing risk and control gaps.
• Work with the GFO team and offshore partner to maintain a quality mindset, ensuring that goals, objectives, and SLA’s reflect Risk and Compliance deliverables.
• Develop, maintain, and govern the Risk Control Matrix (RCM) for S/4 and finance-related boundary systems and consolidate with GFO RCM to ensure consistency and efficiencies.
• Ensure key risks and controls…