Assistant Vice President – Business Risk & Controls
Location: New Jersey (Hybrid)
Salary: $125,000–$145,000 + Bonus
Employment Type: Full-Time
This position is not open for c2c and are unable to provide sponsorship at this time or in the future
We're partnering with a leading global fi nancial infrastructure organization that plays a critical role in supporting the world's fi nancial markets. They're looking for an Assistant Vice President, Business Risk & Controls to join their growing fi rst-line risk function.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business investing heavily in its risk and controls framework, working closely with senior stakeholders to strengthen governance, improve control environments, and embed a strong risk culture across the organization.
What You'll Be Doing
● Partner with business leaders to identify, assess, and mitigate operational risks.
● Conduct risk assessments, controls assurance testing, and support remediation activities.
● Drive consistency and best practice across risk and control frameworks.
● Support Risk & Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs) and testing programs.
● Work closely with Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Legal teams on risk initiatives and audit fi ndings.
● Help investigate incidents, strengthen controls, and prevent future issues.
● Contribute to the ongoing development of testing methodologies and control standards.
● Promote a proactive, risk-aware culture across the business.
What They're Looking For
● Experience in 1st Line Risk & Controls, Controls Testing, Controls Remediation, Internal Audit, or 2nd/3rd Line Risk looking to move into a fi rst-line role.
● Strong understanding of operational risk management and control frameworks.
● Experience conducting risk assessments, testing controls, and supporting remediation.
● Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
● Ability to infl uence senior business leaders and challenge constructively.
● Background within fi nancial services, capital markets, or another highly regulated industry is preferred.
● Experience with GRC platforms is a plus.
Nice to Have
● Qualifications in Risk Management, Internal Audit, Compliance, or Project Management.
● Strong Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills.
I specialise in SAP S/4HANA Retail resourcing and placing within global retail clients.
These clients are undergoing large-scale S/4HANA transformations.
Skills:
- Extensive experience with contracting with retail clients
- Experience on SAP S/4HANA transformations
Module experience I am looking for (do not need to possess all three) -
- SAP IS-Retail
- SAP Retail
- SAP for Merchandise Management
Finance Transformation – Anaplan Consultant, Senior Associate
A leading global professional services and consulting firm is seeking a Senior Associate to join its Finance Transformation practice, working on Anaplan-driven finance solutions.
The Role
You will work alongside finance leaders (CFOs, Controllers, Treasurers) to improve financial planning, consolidation, reporting, and analytics processes. This is a client-facing role focused on delivering analytical insight and hands-on Anaplan implementation, with growing responsibility for workstream management and client relationships.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with finance leaders to optimize financial planning and reporting processes
- Build and implement enterprise performance management solutions using Anaplan
- Conduct complex data analysis to deliver actionable business insights
- Support alignment of financial systems and processes to improve decision-making
- Develop financial models and forecasts to support strategic initiatives
- Mine financial data to identify trends and cost-reduction opportunities
- Build and maintain data visualization tools for financial reporting
- Review and validate financial statements for accuracy
- Mentor junior team members on financial management and analysis techniques
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
Differentiators
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Data Science/Analytics, Business Administration, Computer Science/Information Systems, or Risk Management/Insurance
- Proficiency in Anaplan and financial modeling
- Strong data visualization and financial forecasting skills
- Experience developing and optimizing financial planning and budgeting processes
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
- Strong client communication and relationship-building skills
Travel: Up to 60%
Finance Transformation – Anaplan Solutions Architect, Senior Manager
A leading global professional services and consulting firm is seeking a Senior Manager to join its Finance Transformation practice, specializing in Anaplan solution architecture.
The Role
You will work directly with C-suite finance leaders (CFOs, Controllers, Treasurers) to modernize and optimize core finance functions, including planning, consolidation, reporting, and analytics. This is a client-facing leadership role responsible for architecting Anaplan solutions that translate directly into measurable business impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead design and implementation of Anaplan solutions across FP&A, consolidation, and reporting workstreams
- Partner with senior executives to align finance transformation initiatives with broader business strategy
- Own complex financial data analysis, modeling, and forecasting to support strategic decision-making
- Oversee integration of financial management software to improve operational performance
- Drive process optimization initiatives targeting cost reduction and efficiency gains
- Lead and develop high-performing, cross-border project teams
- Serve as primary client relationship owner, managing expectations and delivery across engagements
- Navigate multi-jurisdictional finance transformation projects with diverse stakeholder groups
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 6 years of hands-on Anaplan implementation experience
Differentiators
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Data Science/Analytics, Business Administration, Computer Science/Information Systems, or Risk Management/Insurance
- Advanced Anaplan solutions architecture expertise (Master Anaplanner certification a strong plus)
- Track record leading cross-functional finance transformation engagements
- Strong data visualization and executive-level advisory skills
- Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-stakeholder client relationships
Travel: Up to 60%
A human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered humanoid robots designed to work alongside people, starting in manufacturing and logistics with future expansion into healthcare and the home, is hiring a Lead Software Engineer to own dexterous manipulation for its flagship platform.
The Role
This is a core technical leadership role responsible for developing learning-based dexterous control algorithms that unlock advanced manipulation capability on state-of-the-art robotic hand hardware. You will bridge cutting-edge research and scalable production software, applying reinforcement learning, imitation learning, teleoperation retargeting, and classical control to enable high-DOF task performance in both simulation and physical deployment. As technical lead, you will shape core software architecture and directly influence hardware design.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as technical authority for dexterous manipulation, setting the long-term roadmap for hand control and multi-fingered coordination
- Design and enforce foundational software architecture, balancing autonomous logic against high-fidelity teleoperation
- Direct integration of state-of-the-art research, selecting and deploying learning-based policies and vision-integrated systems
- Own sim-to-real strategy, setting standards for high-fidelity simulation and policy transfer to physical hardware
- Drive next-generation hardware specifications, including sensing, degrees of freedom, and torque profiles
- Oversee transition from experimental research to fleet-wide deployment, ensuring production-grade C++/Python performance and reliability
- Set technical culture and mentor senior engineers across the organization
Required Qualifications
- Deep expertise in multi-fingered hand control, grasp planning, and in-hand manipulation, with a track record of hardware deployment
- Proficiency in learning-based robotic control (flow/diffusion-based visuomotor policies, reinforcement learning, reward modeling)
- Strong Python skills, with experience building real-time robotic software stacks
- Experience with physics engines (IsaacSim, MuJoCo, or Drake) for policy training and validation
- BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years relevant experience (3+ with a PhD) in robotic manipulation or complex motion control
- Proven track record deploying algorithms from research/simulation into physical hardware
Differentiators
- Strong foundation in kinematics, Jacobian-based control, and constrained optimization
- Teleoperation experience with VR/haptic interfaces and retargeting algorithms
- Tactile sensing integration experience
- Computer vision familiarity (6D pose estimation, point cloud processing, visual servoing)
- Hardware bring-up experience with high-DOF end-effectors
Finance Transformation – FP&A Technology (Anaplan), Director
A leading global professional services and consulting firm is seeking a Director to lead its FP&A Technology practice, specializing in Anaplan-driven finance transformation.
The Role
This is a senior leadership position responsible for setting strategic direction across client engagements, shaping how finance organizations use Anaplan to improve financial performance and decision-making. You will operate at the executive level, driving both client outcomes and business development for the practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead development and implementation of financial performance management frameworks
- Direct analysis of financial data to build KPIs and performance metrics that drive operational efficiency
- Design and execute budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes aligned to client strategic objectives
- Oversee integration of financial management software across client engagements
- Advise clients at the executive level on cost reduction and financial forecasting strategy
- Identify and lead process optimization and performance improvement initiatives
- Present complex financial data through data visualization tools for executive audiences
- Build and lead high-performing teams, mentoring senior staff and future practice leaders
- Own executive-level client relationships and drive business development within the practice
- Bring innovative, technology-forward solutions to FP&A engagements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 8 years of hands-on Anaplan experience
Differentiators
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Data Science/Analytics, Business Administration, Computer Science/Information Systems, or Risk Management/Insurance
- Demonstrated strategic leadership in FP&A, with Anaplan as core technical foundation
- Track record driving business growth through financial transformation solutions
- Strong executive client relationship management and team mentoring experience
- Ability to translate strategic vision into actionable, technology-enabled outcomes
Travel: Up to 60%
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