Full-Time Sr Risk Specialist – Regular
Job Description
What We Do
Reporting to the Manager, Risk Management, the Risk Specialist, Sr conducts ongoing monitoring/oversight, provides regular detailed reporting on the status of risk programs, consult, and provides independent challenge on control effectiveness. This role provides analysis, monitoring, and challenge to identify areas for improvement and remediation by business units to support a sound operational environment.
How You’ll Make an Impact
Program Monitoring, Oversight, and Reporting
- Effectively maintain Risk Management Programs on a day-to-day basis to identify, monitor and assess risk. Programs include but are not limited to Change/Project Risk Management, Vendor Risk Oversight, and Ad-hoc Risk Assessment.
- Ensure programs are consistently assessed; Program policy, guidelines, and internal procedures documents are kept up to date and relevant.
- Issues encountered during real-time monitoring or through formal reviews are escalated appropriately and effectively to the Manager, Risk Management.
- Ensure program reporting is kept current and distributed to key stakeholders.
- Areas for improvement and remediation are identified and consensus built on recommended solutions.
- Independently challenge the status quo in a respectful manner.
- Provide awareness and promote strong risk management practices and principles across the organization through effective communication and training to ensure risk management programs are understood.
Training and Risk Culture
- Provide awareness and promote strong risk management practices and principles across the organization through effective communication of Polices and Programs.
- Develop, maintain, and deliver effective training on risk Programs and Policies to FIC employees through a variety of mediums including online and face-to-face so that policies are understood, and that employees are equipped to recognize and escalate knowledge of material risk.
- Promotes awareness to ensure that business understand their roles and responsibilities
- Advocate for a strong risk culture and drive change
Project Risk, Policies and Procedures
- Participate in complex or highly critical projects to ensure risks are appropriately identified, assessed, and challenged.
- Define, implement, and maintain the organizational risk framework to assess project risk and complexity and drive additional risk control activities
- Ensures all stakeholders are appropriately trained on the project risk framework and requirements, risk concepts including risk identification, assessment, and action planning.
- Verifies adherence to risk framework, ensures required risk control activities are completed and operating effectively
- Consistently advocates for strong risk management principles and builds trusted relationships with all stakeholders
- Actively participates in project meetings and supports, challenges, and identifies critical/material project implementation/delivery and BAU risks
- Ensures accountability of stakeholders and actively asks questions and challenges the status quo
- Proactively questions and assesses project risks and provides effective challenge
- Evaluates identified risks in collaboration with risk owners and proposed response plans
- Participates actively in post implementation lessons learnt and continuous improvement discussions
Ad-hoc Risk Assessments
- As required, conduct ad-hoc risk assessments for high-risk processes and critical projects or business functions
- Assess new and/or changes to operational processes including process mapping, risk and control documentation and evaluation and action planning
- Provide value-add recommendations to stakeholders for operational readiness decisions
- Ensures material residual risks are identified, action plans are identified and are robust
What We’re Looking For
- Completion of a University degree or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of relevant risk experience
- Supplier/ 3rd Party Risk Management experience is an asset.
- Change/Project Risk Management experience is a nice to have
What You Will Bring
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to defined deadlines
- Strong analytical skills, problem-solving ability and attention to detail
- Good communication skills, ability to engage with individuals at all levels
- Capable of assimilating complex material, and to identify and discuss complicated concepts
- Able to work on own initiative and develop practical solutions under pressure
- Good knowledge of risk management processes and procedures
- Knowledge of financial services products, processes, and industry is an asset
How to Apply
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