Corporate Governance Officer recruitment

The corporate governance function comprises of three teams: Corporate Governance, Operational Control Oversight and Anti-Fraud. The aim of the Corporate Governance function is to provide strategic management oversight for all London committees, including Credit Risk, Market Risk, Liquidity Risk, Finance, Legal, etc. My client recommends and institutes best practice to provide high level visibility, supervision and reporting on the status and effectiveness of the governance structure and to improve the transparency and awareness of governance and operational risks.

Responsibilities:

• Run corporate governance committees and relationships.

• Provide Executive briefing notes/reports on corporate governance topics as requested.

• Ensure alignment to other governance and group function committees as appropriate.

• Provide management and oversight of key governance documentation.

• Assist with the provision of training to the Business on corporate governance issues.

• Support and promote key themes through internal presentations, seminars, meetings.

• Responsible for the follow up, tracking and reporting of corporate governance action items.

• Responsible for managing committee outputs, tracking and follow up of action items (including communication and facilitation with senior management).

• Apply project management disciplines to specific corporate governance activities where identified as appropriate.

• Production of regular status reports and liaison between the project resources to ensure that projects are kept to schedule and escalation procedures are applied as required.

• Support and maintain relationships with senior business and function management and other key local and international departments within the bank.

• Communication with and guide the business to support their compliance with governance initiatives and standards.

• Work with the Operational Risk teams to co-ordinate the delivery and maintenance of permanent controls, procedures and controls.

• Assist with and support the set up and implementation of the Corporate Governance Office and governance framework for London.

• Support the development and maintenance of a governance culture throughout the UK.

• Implementation and support of corporate governance activities.

Candidate requirements:

• Significant experience within the Financial Services sector, preferably capital markets.

• Experience in one/all of the following areas: corporate governance, operational risk or fraud.

• Preferably experience in setting up corporate governance frameworks.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to influence senior management.

• Team player.

• Project and process planning experience.

If you feel you have the relevant experience and wish to discuss this in more detail then please send your CV to karl.alliban@hudson.com