Director, Operational Resilience
About The Position
The Director, Operational Risk and Resilience, is an experienced leader in 1st line operational risk management with deep experience in retail banking. As a member of the Strategy, Governance and Controls team the successful candidate is responsible for executing the Bank's Operational Risk and Resilience program and ongoing testing and monitoring of both regulatory and operational controls for operational resilience and operational effectiveness across all channels. The ideal candidate has a deep knowledge of operational risk management frameworks and regulatory & compliance accountabilities within the business. Understanding of products and services and how they are delivered to the customer in all channels is required to effectively construct an operational controls framework for the Bank.
Requirements
- Experience in operational risk and/or resilience, business continuity or risk management in financial services.
- Proven track record of developing and implementing resilience strategies.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing projects.
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills; comfortable addressing large and small audiences.
- Expert knowledge of risk management principles, best practices, and tools
- Ability to foster and build relationships, engage and influence others, work with diverse subject matter experts.
- High level of self-motivation and keen sense of 'owning' and delivering on project deliverables.
- Ability to provide direction for policies and procedures to be developed and maintained for the bank.
- Strong understanding of banking regulations and dealing with internal AML, Compliance and Risk partners.
Nice To Haves
- Bilingualism (English and French) is an asset. If the successful candidate is in Québec, proficiency in both languages will be required to support clients from various provinces outside of Quebec.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of 7 risk professionals providing coaching and development opportunities.
- Manage Bank's Operational Risk and Resilience program, partnering with the Global functions to design effective monitoring & controls.
- Oversee and execute the Bank’s ongoing Third Party Risk Governance program.
- Oversee and execute testing and monitoring of the Bank regulatory and operational controls.
- Design and establish the Bank’s Anti-Fraud oversight program in partnership with Bank Fraud Operations and 2nd line Anti-Fraud.
- Oversee documentation and ongoing management of Bank's policies & procedures.
- Accountable for Bank's RCSA program, partnering with Operations, and 2nd line Operational and Information Risk Management to ensure effective challenge and inherent/residual risk assessments are complete.
- Manage monthly 1B updates for the Bank Leadership team to coordinate update of all issues, audits, CAPs, and regulatory efforts across the Bank.
- Support Bank’s change management process by identifying risks and proposing appropriate controls
Benefits
- health
- dental
- mental health
- vision
- short- and long-term disability
- life and AD&D insurance coverage
- adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
- employee/family assistance plans
- various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions)
- financial education and counseling resources
- holidays
- vacation
- personal
- sick days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
