Senior Manager, Third Party Risk Management Oversight and Advisory (5183)

TD•Toronto, ON

4d•CA$115,600 - CA$163,200•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Third Party Risk Management Oversight and Advisory will play a key leadership role in providing second-line advisory, oversight, and effective challenge across TD’s third-party risk management lifecycle. This role will support business segments and corporate functions in understanding, assessing, managing, monitoring, and escalating risks arising from third-party arrangements, with a focus on enabling consistent execution of TPRM requirements and alignment with TD’s risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and enterprise standards. The successful candidate will act as a trusted risk advisor and subject matter expert, partnering with business, risk, control, compliance, procurement, legal, technology, and operational resiliency stakeholders to provide practical guidance, constructive challenge, and timely insights on third-party risk matters.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree required (business, engineering, technology, mathematics, or economics focused preferred).
10+ years relevant experience, including demonstrated experience in second line of defence function with accountability for oversight of a business / key non-financial risk domain.
Strong acumen in third party risk (including knowledge of contracts, vendor management, procurement, and associated processes) and third party operational resiliency.
Ability to drive team's work portfolio independently, with awareness of when to escalate.
Strategic and operational awareness.
Excellent storytelling and presentation skills.
Demonstrated ability to stakeholder and partner in a matrixed environment.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree (e.g., MBA, MaSc., etc.) beneficial.

Responsibilities

Provide second-line advisory, oversight, and effective challenge to business segments and corporate functions on third-party risk matters.
Advise risk owners and stakeholders on the identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and reporting of risks arising from third-party arrangements.
Review and challenge third-party risk assessments, control assessment outcomes, ongoing monitoring results, issues, risk acceptances, and remediation plans using a risk-based approach.
Support the identification and escalation of material third-party risks, including critical, business significant, high-risk, complex, or emerging risk arrangements.
Develop and maintain a strong understanding of assigned business portfolios, third-party risk profiles, key dependencies, control themes, and emerging risks.
Prepare portfolio-level and transaction-specific analysis, insights, recommendations, and reporting requirements for senior management and governance forums.
Partner with Risk Oversight Functions, business governance and control teams, procurement, legal, compliance, technology, and operational resiliency stakeholders to support a coordinated view of third-party risk.
Support enterprise TPRM escalation, review, approval, issue management, risk acceptance, and governance processes, ensuring appropriate documentation, challenge, and decision support.
Contribute to the ongoing maturity of TPRM advisory practices, including methodologies, playbooks, training, stakeholder guidance, reporting, and continuous improvement activities.
Act as a TPRM subject matter expert during material events impacting third-party services, supporting risk assessment, stakeholder coordination, escalation, and remediation oversight.
Provide leadership, coaching, and subject matter expertise to team members and stakeholders, fostering a strong risk culture, constructive challenge, and high standards of execution.
Enable adherence to enterprise third-party risk and operational resiliency frameworks and methodologies.
Ensure third party risk and resiliency programs/policies/practices are well managed, meet business needs, comply with internal and external requirements, and align with business priorities.
Consistently exercise discretion in managing correspondence, information, and all matters of confidentiality; escalate issues where appropriate.
Ensure applicable internal and external requirements are followed within team (e.g., financial controls, segregation of duties, transaction approvals, and physical control of assets).
Participate in cross-functional/enterprise/initiatives as a third party risk and resiliency subject matter expert helping to identify risk/provide guidance for complex situations.
Conduct internal and external research; support the development/delivery of presentations/communications to management or broader audience.
Conduct meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/policies/practices.
Monitor service, productivity and assess efficiency levels within own team and implement continuous improvements where opportunities exist.
Lead, facilitate, and implement actions/remediation plans to address performance, risk, or governance issues.
Actively manage relationships within and across various business lines, corporate, and functions and ensure alignment with enterprise and regulatory requirements.
Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts.
Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite.
Actively lead a team of risk professionals, participate as a member of the TPRM leadership team, and support a positive work environment that promotes quality, innovation, and teamwork.
Ensure timely communication of issues and points of interest.
Provide thought leadership and industry knowledge and participate in knowledge transfer across the team and broader set of stakeholders and partners.
Stay current on third party risk and resiliency related emerging trends, and grow knowledge of the business, tools, and methodologies.
Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training team members.
Keep team and executive informed on the status and progress of projects, and relevant information on day-to-day operations.
Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and leveraging experience and best practices.
Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external partners and stakeholders to develop collaborative, productive working relationships.
Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
Act as a brand ambassador (internally and externally) for Third Party Risk and Operational Resiliency, broader Non-Financial Risk, and the bank.
Recognized as top level third party risk expert with significant depth and breadth of expertise in third party risk management and operational resiliency.
Senior specialist with demonstrated capability to deliver advisory services to executives, business leaders, and risk management leadership.
Integrates knowledge of enterprise, business, segment and risk strategies into program design, policy, and operating standards.
Anticipates emerging trends, regulatory changes, and risks and recommends forward looking improvements.
Provides innovative thinking to develop new solutions.
Maintains familiarity with TPRM influencers outside of the bank such as regulatory requirements, banking industry best practices, standards/frameworks, current events, etc.