Managing Director, Enterprise Risk
About The Position
When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability for generations of working and retired Canadians. CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3.6 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, São Paulo, and Sydney. CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to: Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment Accelerated exposure and responsibility Global career development opportunities Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here. Role Summary: The Managing Director, Enterprise Risk plays a senior leadership role within the Enterprise Risk function, with a primary focus on technology and operational risks across CPP Investments. The role operates with shared senior accountability, collaboration and collective leadership for the overall mandate, culture, and effectiveness of the function. Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Risk, this role is instrumental in providing independent oversight, constructive challenge, and strategic partnership to stakeholders across the organization, while contributing to enterprise-wide risk governance, management, and decision-making. Enterprise Risk provides independent risk governance and constructive challenge while delivering integrated, forward-looking risk insights that enhance decision-making and improve enterprise and investment outcomes across CPP Investments. The group advances this mandate by focusing on material enterprise-wide and transversal risks, integrating operational, enterprise and investment perspectives.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in business, finance, technology, or other relevant field; graduate degree and relevant professional certifications are assets.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise, technology, operational, or risk management roles in a complex, institutional financial services, asset management or similar environment.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing technology, cyber, data, operational, and third-party risks in complex organizations.
- Strong understanding of governance, risk, and control frameworks and experience engaging senior management.
- Ability to balance independent challenge and constructive partnership
- Enterprise mindset with sound judgment, strong communication skills, and proven ability to lead collaboratively in shared-accountability environments.
- High integrity, resilience, and commitment to CPP Investments’ purpose and values.
Responsibilities
- Act as a senior leader within Enterprise Risk, sharing accountability for strategy, priorities, and culture.
- Contribute to enterprise risk strategy, frameworks, taxonomy, appetite, and reporting, with emphasis on technology, cyber, data and operational risks.
- Lead independent oversight and challenge of technology, cyber, data, and operational risks.
- Partner with Technology, Operations, and other stakeholders to support effective, balanced and well-calibrated risk and control design while maintaining second-line independence.
- Oversee identification, monitoring, and reporting of key and emerging risks with emphasis on technology and operational risks.
- Play a leadership role advancing the use of new technology and tools to advance effective risk management and delivery of the Enterprise Risk function
- Support robust Management and Board risk governance through clear, decision-relevant reporting.
- Advise senior leaders on risk trends, control effectiveness, and mitigation strategies.
- Work closely with partners across Risk, Assurance & Advisory, Legal, and other stakeholders with risk oversight roles to deliver integrated risk oversight.
- Play a key leadership role in managing and developing a diverse team, fostering an inclusive, high-performance, and partnership-oriented culture.
Benefits
- Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
- Accelerated exposure and responsibility
- Global career development opportunities
- Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
- A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
- A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
- An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
