Resiliency Control Testing Manager
Required skills
- Resiliency Control Testing
- First Line of Defense
- control design
- operating effectiveness
- mitigating risk
- AI-enabled capabilities
- automation tools
- testing efficiency
- evidence collection
- reporting quality
Nice to have
- cybersecurity engineering
Role summary
Wintrust is seeking a Resiliency Control Testing Manager to join its Security & Fraud First Line of Defense team. This role is responsible for assessing the design and effectiveness of controls to mitigate risk and protect critical business services. The manager will partner with various security and risk functions to evaluate controls, identify improvements, and validate remediation. Key responsibilities include establishing testing methodologies, developing testing plans, leading engagements, reporting to leadership, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing the control testing program using AI and automation. This is not an engineering role, but requires a strong control testing and assurance mindset with knowledge of cybersecurity, fraud risk, technology controls, and operational resiliency.
Wintrust provides community and commercial banking, specialty finance and wealth management services through its 16 bank charters and nine non-bank businesses. Wintrust delivers the sophisticated solutions of a large bank while staying true to the relationship-focused, personalized service of our community banking roots. We serve clients in all 50 states with more than 200 branch banking locations in Illinois, southwestern Florida, northwestern Indiana, west Michigan and southern Wisconsin and commercial banking offices in Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Mich., and in key branch banking locations throughout Illinois. Our people are the heart of our business and we are proud to rank consistently as a top place to work. Wintrust is a $66 billion financial institution based in Rosemont, Illinois, and listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “WTFC.”
This role operates within the Security & Fraud First Line of Defense and provides objective assessments of control design and operating effectiveness, performed separately from day-to-day control ownership activities, to determine whether controls are appropriately mitigating risk and supporting the protection of the bank's critical business services. The Resiliency Manager partners closely with Cybersecurity, Physical Security, Technology, Fraud, Business Continuity, Operational Risk and Second Line of Defense Risk functions to evaluate control design and operating effectiveness, identify improvement opportunities, validate remediation activities, perform root cause analysis, and assess the sustainability of corrective actions.
The role is accountable for establishing testing methodologies, developing risk-based testing plans, leading testing engagements, reporting results to leadership, supporting regulatory compliance requirements through alignment of findings to applicable regulations and standards, and continuously enhancing the Security and Fraud Control Testing Program. The position also leverages approved AI-enabled capabilities, analytics, and automation tools to improve testing efficiency, streamline evidence collection, enhance reporting quality, and identify trends across testing results.
This is not a cybersecurity engineering position. Success in this role requires a strong control testing and assurance mindset combined with practical knowledge of cybersecurity, fraud risk management, technology controls, and operational resiliency practices
From our first day in business, Wintrust has been proud to serve a variety of unique communities and people from all walks of life. To build a company that reflects the communities we serve, we believe that fostering a unique and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to succeed will support our ongoing success. Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.
