HR Technology Governance Manager, Vice President

Summary:
HR Tech Governance Manger will be a hands-on manager with Financial Industry and Technology background responsible for leading business/vendor relationship, focus on continuous process improvement. Partners with System Managers to build and drive data driven, fact-based processes and procedures around HR Technology. Design, implement and lead an audit program for key process areas that identify and test risks and internal controls. Reporting to Director of Business Technologies, HR Systems, responsible for delivering integrated business services to assigned HR Organization.

Major Responsibilities:

• Establish and/or review existing control and governance structure to ensure that its effective, properly maintained, and operating efficiently.
• Perform audit test steps on high-risk areas and supervise audit activities and controls conducted by various HR functions.
• Provide recommendations to close any design and control gaps identified during audit procedures performed, working with external auditors as needed.
• Lead control-related aspects of process changes and improvements, technology upgrades and new technology implementations, ensuring that the control structure remains effective as the organization changes.
• Ensure that process maps and documentation remain current, and that process changes are effectively led from a control perspective.
• Partner with senior management to identify and design solutions for issues, inconsistencies and areas to improve business operations.
• Serve a leader and evangelist in building and maintaining a culture of control and quality in various HR areas touching end-to-end HR processes.
• Provide advice and leadership on compliance/control process issues.
• Work closely with the business and Risk Management to assess risk and develop controls and mitigation strategies for risk areas.
• Serve as a liaison between Business and Functional areas and technology to ensure that data related business requirements for protecting sensitive data are clearly defined, communicated and well understood and considered as part of operational prioritization and planning
• Develop & maintain inventory of information maps, including authoritative systems, owners
• Facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise, support audit reviews.
• Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements
• Lead Senior Management, comprising resources from the Business and Functional areas and IT business and operations functions, to achieve their objectives; resolve issues raised from Business and Functional areas.
• Provide progress reports to management and handle periodic updates
• Coordinate external data sources to eliminate redundancy and streamline the expense related to those services

Management of staff:

• Directs the staff/team and monitors work efforts; performs quality review; and escalates functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately.
• Coordinates communication with all areas of the enterprise that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort being managed.
• To ensure full governance and compliance requirements met, validation of testing, certifications and pre-production cutover signoffs.
• Develop and manage overall performance planning for staff that equips team members with meaningful career paths, enhanced skills and standard methodologies to continually improve the value for the bank.