Manager - Strategic Initiatives for Risk
About The Position
At the intersection of strategy, risk management, and execution, this role supports the delivery of strategic initiatives across the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) function. As Manager, Strategic Initiatives for Risk, you will focus on translating strategic direction into structured plans, actionable risk insights, and practical risk management outcomes, strengthening risk-informed decision-making across the organization. This role is designed to be flexible and future-focused. While current initiatives include risk culture, innovation initiatives that support ERM, and emerging risk management, the Manager operates as a strategy and risk management generalist who can flex across a broad range of risk domains, initiatives, and evolving priorities while maintaining strong analytical rigor, disciplined risk assessment, the ability to translate insights into risk management actions, and operational rigor.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, strategic initiatives, or risk-related roles, with preference given to candidates who bring both analytical insight and execution delivery experience in complex environments.
- Strategic generalist mindset with comfort operating across ambiguity and changing priorities.
- Proven ability to execute strategic and risk management initiatives and translate direction into action.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including experience with metrics, risk indicators, scorecards, and trend analysis.
- Ability to translate conceptual topics into practical, usable outputs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in risk management functions within a financial institution setting
- Experience supporting governance, or strategy initiatives.
- Experience supporting data‑driven decision-making.
- Experience working in complex, matrixed environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support the end‑to‑end execution of strategic initiatives across the Risk function.
- Translate strategic direction into clear workplans, milestones, and deliverables; monitor progress, risks, and dependencies to support timely and effective outcomes.
- Design, maintain, and enhance scorecards, dashboards, and analyses aligned to strategic risk priorities.
- Identify leading risk indicators, emerging exposures, and trends; synthesize analysis into clear, decision-ready insights that support both risk assessment and practical risk management actions by leadership and Business Groups.
- Develop and evolve risk culture measurement frameworks as part of broader strategic initiatives.
- Translate behavioural, cultural, and operational signals into credible, measurable indicators; analyze trends to proactively identify areas requiring management attention or intervention.
- Assist in identifying, assessing, and monitoring emerging risks and evolving risk themes.
- Convert external developments and internal signals into structured insights; engage with stakeholders to translate emerging risk learnings into risk management considerations and actions within Business Groups.
- Determine appropriate risk management approaches for new or evolving issues and support the design and execution of corresponding initiatives or programs.
- Support the use of innovation, analytics, and emerging technologies, including GenAI, to enhance how risk insights are generated and used.
- Contribute to pilots and initiatives that improve efficiency, insight quality, and decision support while remaining aligned with governance expectations.
- Prepare high‑quality materials for senior leadership, committees, and working groups.
- Maintain strong attention to detail, consistency, and documentation across deliverables; identify opportunities to improve processes, templates, and ways of working.
Benefits
- 20 vacation days per year
- Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
- Pension Plan participation starts immediately, and you are automatically enrolled.
- Sun Life automatic and matching contributions to Pension Plan
- Flexible hybrid work model
- Opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
