About this role
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Who we are:
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Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
The role:
The Senior Manager, GRC Governance & Enablement leads the governance and enablement capabilities that help ensure GRC and Independent Risk Management changes are controlled, tested, secure, release-ready, and successfully adopted.
This role sits within the Second Line Of Defense (2LOD) and is responsible for key disciplines including organizational change management, QA and testing governance, security and access governance, release readiness, adoption, training, communications, governance evidence, and operating standards. The role partners closely with the GRC Business Systems Director, Business Analyst, business process owners, Functional Approvers, Design Authority representatives, technology teams, and implementation partners to support both transformation initiatives and ongoing BAU sustainment.
The position also plays an important role in shaping the future-state GRC operating model by establishing scalable governance practices that support growth, regulatory expectations, user experience, data accuracy, and operational efficiency.
What you’ll do:
• Lead the GRC change management and enablement framework, including stakeholder readiness, communications, training, adoption, reinforcement, and change governance.
• Establish and maintain QA and testing standards, including test planning, UAT governance, defect management, traceability, regression testing, sign-off, and testing evidence.
• Oversee security and access governance for GRC capabilities, including roles, groups, access approvals, periodic reviews, reconciliations, and supporting control evidence.
• Define and govern release-readiness standards for implementations, enhancements, and material production changes.
• Ensure appropriate readiness criteria are met across testing, security, communications, training, business approvals, support preparation, and BAU transition before release.
• Develop and maintain governance standards, required evidence, decision records, approval artifacts, and readiness documentation.
• Identify gaps in governance, control execution, documentation, or readiness and coordinate remediation with the appropriate business and technology teams.
• Lead development of adoption, training, and communications strategies tailored to impacted stakeholder groups.
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