AVP Finance Governance (L11)

About the job

Job Description Role Title: AVP Finance Governance (L11) Company Overview Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry’s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more. • We have recently been ranked #2 among India’s Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India’s Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies. • We offer Flexibility and Choice for all employees and provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being. • We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities, focusing on Advancing Diverse Talent to take up leadership roles. Organizational Overview Enterprise Risk provides oversight on Synchrony-wide initiatives and projects and manages issues, risk assessment & reporting, risk monitoring activities, policy standards and procedure framework for governance documents, and strategic enhancements of the eGRC tool. The first line governance teams deliver on these policies and procedures for managing governance within their functions and on a cross functional basis. Second line risk provide challenge to the first line’s risk identification and monitoring practices. Governance aligns with the various risk and control activities required to be in place across the organization. Role Summary/Purpose: The Finance Governance AVP will be part of a new centralized team who are responsible for driving compliance with the Governance standards across the Finance organization which will include (but not limited to) Issues & Incident Management, Risk Assessment, Change Management and a variety of Monitoring and Reporting on risk and governance activities and results. Additionally, the successful candidate will be helping to drive the stand up of the new centralized operating model across Finance and supporting our Finance colleagues on that journey. The successful candidate for this role is a leader with strong communication skills, the ability to manage through influence, have strong attention to details and expert in multi-tasking.

Requirements

• Governance
• Risk Assessment
• Incident Management
• Compliance
• Process Improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study (Business, Finance, Risk)
• 6+ years of experience in 1st line Governance, External/Internal Audit
• OR 9+ years of experience in financial services governance roles

Preferred Technologies

• Governance
• Risk Assessment
• Incident Management
• Compliance
• Process Improvement

About the company

Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry’s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more. We have recently been ranked #2 among India’s Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work.