Analyst, Risk Advisory Co-op Student

Loblaw Companies Limited•Brampton, ON

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Risk Advisory group is focused on delivering innovative and impactful Advisory and Assurance, Business Risk Management and Technology-based solutions across the entire Loblaw portfolio of companies, focusing our efforts on fundamental areas needed to help protect, grow and improve our business’s governance, operations and results. As the Co-op Analyst, Risk Advisory, you have the opportunity to build your experience in the business world. Our team’s unique mandate provides exposure to all of our different service lines across our extraordinary organization. This will include various risk-oriented responsibilities, including execution of cross-functional projects to advance important priorities, testing of the company’s key control environment, and gaining exposure to the big picture through helping on various deliverables which get presented directly to the most senior stakeholders in our company. The company is looking for an individual with a curious, entrepreneurial and business-oriented mindset, who is self-driven and possesses the right critical thinking, data visualization, and interpersonal skills to proactively tap into existing and potential data sources and seek answers to important business challenges.

Requirements

Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, or a related field.
Strong business acumen, with an ability connect the dots between the business areas, risks, and control environment, with understanding of risk/control frameworks.
Enthusiastic learner and team player with excellent ability to multi-task, collaborate and effectively prioritize to manage and complete projects within timelines.
Proficiency with Microsoft Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
Self-starter with excellent communication skills (written, oral and presentation) and interpersonal skills.

Nice To Haves

Pursuing a CPA or similar designation is not mandatory but would be considered an asset.

Responsibilities

Execute on a portfolio of Risk Advisory projects within a dynamic environment by working with integrated project teams, primarily focusing on analyzing results to help better understand, communicate, and evaluate any significant business issues.
Learn more about the various operational, technology & financial processes and controls which keep our organization moving forward within the appropriate guardrails
Help our teams produce highly visual presentations which connect the dots in a simple and business-oriented way, skillfully capturing current and emerging risks, current state landscape, potential issues and opportunities, and recommendations
Conduct research of new and emerging issues impacting our businesses, and propose fresh and creative ways to use this information to our competitive advantage.
Extend your personal reach and impact by proactively identifying and raising ideas on areas where data and process driven insights may add value or mitigate risk.
Perform any ad-hoc requests by management as necessary.