Consultant, Operational Risk

1 month ago


Waterloo, Canada Sun Life Full time

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

The Risk Management Centre of Excellence (CoE) is a strategic business partner supporting Canadian leadership in meeting our Client for Life goals by providing comprehensive understanding of operational risk and contributing innovative solutions to manage risk.

We partner with Canadian leadership as well as second line of defense Risk and Compliance stakeholders to assess operational risks, enhance control frameworks, provide oversight on risk policy requirements and ultimately enable the business to evolve while maintaining risk within appetite.

As Consultant, Operational Risk, you will support risk activities across all business portfolios in Canada and will be a key point of contact for Canadian execution managers and second line of defense stakeholders to identify, assess and manage operational risks within the portfolio.

**Preferred skills**
- Exposure to risk management practices including risk assessment, risk monitoring, control design and control effectiveness
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize many competing demands
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, experience presenting to business partners
- Proactive and highly motivated individual who will take initiative
- Strong analytical, problem resolution and collaboration skills
- Experience in process mapping as well as identification and assessment of process risks and supporting controls

**Qualifications**
- Canadian Business Unit functions or general Financial Services Industry Experience
- Experience in risk management or related functions (e.g. compliance, process improvement, audit)
- Exposure to project, program and/or portfolio management
- Certification in risk management and/or process improvement
- Familiarity with SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint Tableau or RSA Archer.

**Responsibilities**
- Assess risk and control effectiveness and design within assigned portfolios, identify opportunities to improve risk management and operational risk management best practices
- Support the roll-out of new/changed risk and compliance requirements by identifying the impact to assigned business areas and supporting business partners in the design and maintenance of processes/controls to meet these requirements
- Provide risk consulting expertise and support risk reviews for key business projects, digital initiatives and process changes
- Day to day support for the execution of the Enterprise Risk Framework and all of it’s underlying requirements including management of end-user computing and third party risk.
- Monitor and track status of risk issues and activities in portfolio scorecard

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

**Salary Range**:
53,300/53 300 - 86,300/86 300

**Job Category**:
Risk Management

**Posting End Date**:
29/06/2023



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