About this role
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The Role:
Positioned in the first line of defense (1LOD) and reporting to the Head of Business Controls, this experienced executive will act as the Business Controls Lead for SoFi’s Technology and Cybersecurity organizations. This includes comprehensive coverage of Engineering, Information Security, Infrastructure, and Data across the full SoFi Legal structure: SoFi Inc., SoFi Bank, Galileo, Technisys, and SoFi Hong Kong.
The Business Controls Lead will act as the direct advisor to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and their senior leadership teams. You will lead a team of experienced IT risk & controls team charged with promoting risk awareness and ensure the overall effectiveness of risk and compliance management program implementation and execution across the 1LOD. This role provides support, advisory services, and enables strategic alignment directly to department heads to accelerate and ensure quality execution.
You will be responsible for supporting and driving consistent 1LOD adherence to critical programs, such as building and maintaining risk and control self-assessments (RCSAs); identification and evaluation of control effectiveness through control testing; 1LOD risk reporting; and supporting audits and regulatory exams. You will monitor the first line of defense in these assigned functions to minimize risk exposures and strengthen the overall control environment, leveraging risk assessment data to identify and seek improvements.
Crucially, this role holds direct ownership of major 1LOD risk management programs, driving their build, implementation, and sustainment, including Insider Threats, End User Computing (EUC), and IT Asset Management (ITAM). Additionally, this role drives industry alignment to proven frameworks such as CoBit, NIST, and FFIEC Guidance to name a few.
What You’ll Do:
• Global Strategic Leadership : Serve as the primary 1LOD Risk Partner for the Technology and Cybersecurity functions across all domestic and international entities (SoFi Bank, Galileo, Technisys, SoFi Hong Kong), ensuring consistent application of risk frameworks in diverse regulatory environments.
• Program Ownership : Own the strategy, governance, and execution of critical enterprise-wide risk programs including th