Lead, Third Party Risk Management

4 months ago


Toronto, Canada OMERS Full time

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The Lead, Third Party Risk Management reports to the Director, Vendor Governance and Procurement Operations within OMERS Corporate Finance team, and will focus on safeguarding OMERS through design and implementation of strong third party risk management and monitoring practices.
**This role will be primarily responsible for**:
Responsible in executing the day-to-day activities associated to the Vendor Governance framework such as reviewing all vendor engagements, executing vendor due-diligence activities, assessing vendor risk and ensuring the process abides to our policy. Your input to the process will ensure high data quality, completeness of vendor risk records and that our clients understand potential risk being introduced with new 3rd parties
Execute all ongoing monitor activities, post vendor contracting, to ensure the vendor doesn’t introduce new risk to OMERS after it has been onboarding. This phase of the framework requires collaboration with the extended risk domains and includes activities such as the reassessment of risk, attestation reviews and SOC report reviews.
Responsible for executing the SOC report review process by engaging with and supporting Business Process Owners and conducting attestation report (e.g. SOC 2) reviews for high risk vendors
The point of contact for all matters related to Vendor Governance inclusive of the process, artifacts, reporting, risk domain relationship and associated projects
Contribute in the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of all phases of the framework in alignment with the overall OMERS Vendor Governance Program, policies, guidelines and Procedures.
Engaging and supporting Business Process Owners in the execution of their respective tasks within the Vendor Governance Program
Responsible for the centralization and the creation of Vendor risk memo for high risk vendors
Coordinating incident & exception identification, reporting, response and mitigation, including escalation and communication, and risk mitigation plans and strategies
Perform analysis, KRI reporting and process reviews to ensure all activities abide to the policies
Coordinating with key cross-functional stakeholders, including Internal Audit, in reviews and evaluation of the Vendor Governance program
Building strong partnerships and relationships with business partners and key vendor risk stakeholders including Finance, Data & Technology, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Internal Audit and Risk
Developing strong relationships with third-party risk management peers
To succeed in this role, you have
3-5 years’ experience in equivalent third-party risk management roles
Experience in reviewing and evaluating attestation reports (e.g. SOC report reviews) and follow up on exceptions and issues
Experience in complex, diverse, corporate business environments collaborating with cross-discipline teams
Experience in Vendor Management
Strong understanding of supply chain risk processes and controls
Post-secondary business degree or equivalent experience and qualifications
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
And you demonstrate
A people-first focus with a desire to develop meaningful, trusting relationships across all levels
A teammate mentality coupled with servant leadership
A sense of urgency, optimism, and a desire to deliver excellence
A desire to drive debate, to speak candidly and to listen empathetically
Strong orientation towards strategy, change and results
Process Unity platform
Oracle Cloud ERP
Refinitiv WorldCheck-One
**Contract Lifecycle Management system**: Sirion
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