Controls Testing, Senior Associate – Canada Risk Office

Position Title: Controls Testing, Senior Associate – Canada Risk Office

Location: Downtown Toronto – 3 days a week in office

Estimated Duration: Fulltime

• A solid understanding of risk management and governance principles and familiarity with the processes and controls that govern these activities (i.e., three lines of defense model and risk framework principles)
• The ability to distill complex information into a clear and concise narrative
• The ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects and deliverables
• Solid analytical and investigative skills
• A proven track record in driving high quality and timely results
• The ability to work autonomously in a dynamically changing environment
• Demonstrated business maturity with the ability to effectively communicate and influence stakeholders within all levels of the organization, establish and maintain positive relationships
• Solid interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
• Strong judgment and knowledge of when to escalate with appropriate stakeholders before issues arise

• Lead or support the execution of control tests to assess the design and operating effectiveness of control activities
• Collaborate with business partners and review documentation to gather information to perform control testing
• Proactively manage testing activities and schedules to ensure that all activities and reporting are completed within expected timelines
• Analyze data to identify issues and trends across the Canada controls environment
• Execute control testing across a variety of control types, including manual and automated controls where the ability to query data using SQL may be leveraged  
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with business and second line partners
• Assist in the creation of reporting to communicate testing results to business partners
• Clearly document and communicate results from control tests for stakeholder review
• Support the development of reports and briefing materials to senior management
• Navigate organization to quickly understand business processes and requirements necessary to complete testing and to develop a deep understanding of how processes evolve to continually meet changing business requirements
• Support strategic risk projects as assigned
• Remain current on risk management trends, best practices, and guidelines issued by applicable regulatory bodies

• Bachelor’s degree
• At least 3 years of financial consumer compliance monitoring experience or 3 years of consumer compliance auditing experience or 3 years of experience in assessing processes and their controls, or 3 years of experience in assessing third parties and vendors
• Experience in preparing and writing business documents (i.e., presentations for leadership meetings or forums, briefing memos, and reports)
• Familiarity with applicable Canadian regulators (OSFI, OPC, FCAC) and regulations that apply to a credit card business
• Basic data analysis and scripting experience (SQL, Python)

• Relevant certification or accreditation in Compliance, Risk Management, Legal, or other related fields
• Working knowledge of cloud data structure (snowflake)
• Experience creating and reviewing test scripts using SQL/Python to test full populations for key attributes
• Working knowledge of French language
• Strong leadership skills and capabilities
• Familiarity of a credit card business, practices, and operations