Senior Manager Operational Risk

6 days ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Bank of Montreal Full time

Responsibilities

The Senior Manager Operational Risk is responsible for providing strategic input into business decisions as a trusted advisor. This involves analyzing complex data and identifying emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making. The role requires strong leadership and communication skills, as well as the ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders to achieve business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic input into business decisions as a trusted advisor
  • Makes recommendations to senior leaders on strategy and new initiatives, based on an in-depth understanding of the business/group
  • Acts as a subject matter expert on relevant regulations and policies
  • May network with industry contacts to gain competitive insights and best practices
  • Interprets new regulations and assesses impacts to the governance framework
  • Develops reports on the status of the governance program or framework components to various internal & external stakeholder audiences
  • Influences and negotiates to achieve business objectives
  • Identifies emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making
  • Recommends business priorities, advises on resource requirements and develops roadmap for strategic execution
  • Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals
  • Measures the effectiveness of risk governance system and framework; recommends changes as required
  • Conducts independent analysis and assessment to resolve strategic issues
  • Leads the development and maintenance of the governance system and framework
  • Acts as the prime subject matter expert for internal/external stakeholders
  • Represents the model validation program / portfolio for internal/external regulatory audits and/or examinations
  • Ensures alignment between stakeholders
  • Designs and produces regular and ad-hoc reports, and dashboards
  • Develops and manages comprehensive information management systems; designs and/or leads initiatives to improve processes, analysis and reporting
  • Defines business requirements for analytics & reporting to ensure data insights inform business decision making
  • Leads change management programs of varying scope and type, including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives
  • Leads the development of the communication strategy focusing on positively influencing or changing behaviour
  • Leads the execution of operational programs; assesses and adapts as needed to ensure quality of execution
  • Manages the review and sign-off process for relevant regulatory reporting
  • Leads and integrates the monitoring, measurement & reporting on the status of the operational risk governance program to internal & external stakeholders
  • Leads the management of governance meetings and maintenance of governing body mandates, oversight and approval guidelines
  • May provide specialized support for other internal and external regulatory requirements
  • Provides input into the planning and implementation of ongoing operational programs in support of the operational risk framework
  • Leads/participates in the design, implementation and management of core business/group processes
  • Administers and maintains operational risk program activities in adherence to all policies, procedures and established processes
  • Identifies potential risk situations/ impacts, and make recommendations or escalates to the manager, as per guidelines
  • Develops and maintains in-depth knowledge of business and related risk management requirements and legislative/ regulatory directives and guidance
  • Builds effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders e.g. business stakeholders and Risk Specialty Areas (RSAs) in providing 'second line of defense' operational risk management support
  • Analyzes data and information to provide insights and recommendations; includes identification of risk impacts for new processes and workflows related to initiatives
  • Monitors and tracks performance; addresses any issues
  • Coordinates and monitors the review and sign-off of attestations and reporting
  • Maintains tools and templates for operational risk programs (e.g., Product/Service and Process Risk Assessment (PSPRA), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) or regulatory compliance), as required
  • Operates at a group/enterprise-wide level and serves as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders
  • Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to problems that can be complex and non-routine
  • Implements changes in response to shifting trends
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