Legal Entity Controls, Avp

Who we are looking for

Join State Street Canada Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) team as Legal Entity Controls, AVP and collaborate with several State Street teams throughout the organization.

What you will be responsible for

As Legal Entity Controls AVP you will:

- Maintain the accuracy and completeness of the SSTCC Engagement Records Inventory including external and intragroup third party Engagements.
- Manage the quarterly, annual and ad hoc outreach and timely collection of responses from SSTCC Engagement Managers to support execution of program requirements, including but not limited to performance monitoring, risk & criticality assessments, due diligence (where applicable) and contingency/exit plans.
- Act as Engagement Manager to a set of internal service engagements by partnering with internal service provider contacts within State Street to effectively monitor and demonstration oversight of each Engagement.
- Prepare SSTCC governance reporting, including all aspects of daily, monthly, and quarterly reporting, and the data related to such reporting. Support the Canada TPRM quarterly report to the Risk & Compliance Review Committee to report any issues or key risks identified in Critical, Very High & High Risk Engagements.
- Be the Legal Entity Reviewer for SSTCC in accordance with the State Street Intragroup Engagement Risk Assessment (IERA) program requirements.
- Partner with the Global TPRM teams in understanding the design and execution of other enterprise global program to assist in aligning the State Street Canada requirements to the global program.
- Maintain State Street Canada TPRM program Standard Operating Procedures. Ensure program enhancements are captured and operationalized into the governance and reporting functions as well as associated procedures.
- Complete the Legal Entity Officer Checklist and maintain evidence of executed controls program elements in an orderly manner.
- Understand the connectivity of third party risk data to other enterprise level data such as, risk taxonomy, issues management, incidents, risk and control self-assessments
- Set the agenda for the weekly State Street Canada TPRM team meetings and track and drive completion of the action items.
- Quality Assurance Testing on a quarterly basis for to confirm appropriate fulfillment of the Engagement Mangers responsibilities.
- Co-ordinate the equivalent processes with the Canada Branch and SSGMC TPRM Team members
- Support Examiner and Auditor data requests and examinations/audits.
- Demonstrate flexibility in working outside of direct responsibilities to support emerging State Street Canada TPRM program requirements & changes.

What We Value

These skills will help you succeed in this role:

- Must possess superior leadership and managerial skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills in both verbal and written forms.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize assignments under tight deadlines.
- Attention to detail, questioning and challenging as appropriate.
- Demonstrate a keen sense of curiosity and propensity to learn.
- Experience in partnering with others, strong verbal and written communications skills, and some experience with presentations.
- Knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements.
- Basic understanding of custody and State Street business unit and corporate functions is preferred.

Education and Preferred Qualifications
- BS/BA degree required, with preference of Business degree.
- Minimum of 6-8 years related financial services or investment operations experience with 4-5 years of management responsibility.
- Experience in relationship management strong verbal and written communications skills and some experience with presentations.
- Knowledge of computer systems financial operations and/or mutual fund and related industries a plus.
- MBA desirable.
- Experience within large complex organizations, including within financial services organizations
- Experience working with various risk programs, including risk analysis and risk reporting
- Experience executing reporting to governance committees.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office products, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
- Prior experience with Access preferred.

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks.