Compliance Independent Testing Examiner

COMPLIANCE INDEPENDENT TESTING EXAMINER (JOB NUMBER: COMP-310822-001-NA) **Business Overview**: Demonstrate the firm’s commitment to compliance by maintaining a compliance testing review program that evaluates the firm’s compliance with applicable laws and regulations and discloses violations and control weaknesses. Conduct compliance testing reviews of the various front office business areas, branches, and operations areas and provide senior management with detailed reports regarding the extent of the firm’s compliance with applicable laws and regulations along with value-added comments and recommendations where appropriate. Also, assist in the firm’s various certification processes, coordinate reporting of compliance metrics to the US Intermediate Holding Company and Head Office and participate in special projects/investigations as needed. **Responsibilities**: - Develop compliance testing programs for specific business units and products based upon applicable laws, regulations and internal policies. - Independently conduct compliance testing of regulatory requirements, processes, policies, procedures, and controls under the direction of Compliance Independent Testing (CIT) Manager and Head of CIT in order to assess and review compliance with legal, regulatory and internal firm policy and procedure requirements. - Conduct testing of key controls of the first and second lines of defense. - Escalate potential issues and exception items noted during the review process to Team Lead / CIT Head for discussion and further investigation if deemed necessary. - Draft and validate issues and recommendations addressing the root cause of the issues with stakeholders. - Draft reports detailing regulatory requirements, testing conducted, review findings and recommendations. Issue final reports to senior management. - Ensure that all findings and recommendations are entered into the Reporting & Issue Tracking Application (Aurora) database for tracking purposes and perform periodic follow-up of open issues to ensure proper resolution. - Periodically report on significant activities conducted and planned for the upcoming period, including various metrics. - Conduct adhoc testwork of various rules and regulations in conjunction with the annual CEO/CCO Certifications. - Assist with the annual CEO/CCO Certifications as needed. - Conduct or assist with special investigations and projects as deemed necessary by senior Compliance and business management. - Assist in compliance related matters during examinations by the Firm’s regulators and internal auditors. - Demonstrate and influence others with a positive attitude in the work place and accepts accountability. - Achieve objectives within strict time constraints. **Qualifications**: The desired skills for this position include: - Strong testing experience of regulatory requirements, processes and controls. - Strong knowledge of U.S. securities, commodities, and banking regulations, including the rules and regulations of the SEC (i.e., SEC Rule 15c3-5, SEC Rule 15a-6), CFTC and all exchanges and associations under such federal agencies, including FINRA, NYSE, CBOE, ISE, CME, NYMEX and ICE US. Such knowledge should also include Federal Reserve Board regulations, Volcker, CFTC Swap Dealer, and SEC Swap Dealer requirements. - Strong industry knowledge and working knowledge of the financial services focused on broker-dealer, futures and banking activities. - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with front and back office staff and senior management. - Strong writing skills summarizing regulatory requirements, testing performed, results, findings and recommendations. - Excellent execution skills with the ability to work successfully under demanding deadlines in a change management environment and the ability to manage multiple compliance reviews and projects at the same time and meet deadlines. - Strong analytical and investigative skills. - Problem solving and root cause identification skills. - Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges - Strong organizational and project management skills and attention to detail. - Strong computer skills including MS Office Suite, PowerBI, and Sharepoint administration. - Eight to twelve years of experience with a financial services firm and/or self-regulatory organization in a Compliance Testing, Internal Audit or regulatory related position. - BA or BS Degree a must. **Preferred Qualifications**: - Graduate Degree a plus. - Professional Certification or Securities licenses preferred (SIE, Series 3, 4, 7, 9 / 10, 24). - Speaks and reads Spanish. **FINRA Registrations Required**: SIE or equivalent (must be obtained within the first year of employment) **Primary Location**: CA-QC-Montréal **Job Type**: Standard / Permanent **Job**: COMPLIANCE **Education Level***: Bachelor Degree or equivalent (>= 3 years) **Experience Level***: At leas