**Role Description**:
The SMBC Mexico Office Business Control Officer (BCO) is a business-aligned change agent and risk management individual contributor. The BCO provides the Business Unit with guidance on processes and control design, ensures effective assessment of risk across the transaction lifecycle, and supports Business Unit interaction with 2nd LoD functions including Risk Management and Compliance.
The SMBC Mexico Office Business Control Officer (BCO) is primarily an individual contributor. The BCO is responsible for the full scope of SMBCMexico Office processes & controls. The SMBC Mexico Office BCO reports directly to the Coverage and Capital Markets/Structured Debt Vertical Business Control Officer and dotted line into the Mexico Office Business Lead.
**Role Objectives: Delivery**:
- Leads and provides expert guidance on assessment of processes and controls across the end-to-end transaction lifecycle, proactively assessing threats, vulnerabilities, and possibility of future incidents
- Performs process re-engineering to improve efficiency and strengthen controls within the SMBC Mexico Office.
- Coordinates SMBC Mexico Office interactions with 2nd Line of Defense functions, Internal Audit, and Regulators pertaining to processes and controls.
**Role Objectives: Expertise**:
- Performs risk management framework and related risk assessements of SMBC Mexico Office, supporting the Mexico Office.
- Support 1st LoD via performance of issue management & root cause analysis
- Liaises between SMBC Mexico Office and control functions to execute on 2nd Line of Defense risk assessments (e.g., RCSAs), as required
- Ensures the business unit is operating in compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, provides oversight of processes designed to comply with the aformentioned requirements
**Role Objectives: Responsibilities**:
- Provides education for SMBC Mexico Office staff to ensure awareness of and adherence to policies, standards, and procedures, disseminating best-practice guidance
- Oversee 1st LoD activities and assist specialized domain SMEs (e.g., IT Risk, Data Governance) in the implementation of their programs within the SMBC Mexico Office business.
- Assess business-unit level key metrics to ensure operational effectiveness, establish and manage SMBC level metrics, supporting the Mexico Office Vertical BCO's vertical level assessment
- Supports the head of the SMBC Mexico Office strategy and product development (incl. new product development) through identification of risk & control considerations, as well as definition & operationalization of risk mitigants
- Ensure that risk management considerations are embedded in SMBC Mexico Office processes and strategy.
**Qualifications and Skills**:
- Functional knowledge of process and control design, including process mapping and process reengineering
- Functional knowledge of risk assessment and issue management
- Functional knowledge of change management and continuous process improvement practices
- Functional knowledge of Corporate Lending processes
- Functional knowledge of banking and lending related compliance and risk management requirements & best practices
- Strong leadership and communication ability, inclusive of conflict resolution and project management abilities
