BMO Financial Group
Financial Services
LeadCompliance,Audit&Risk(ARC)
“Lead - Compliance, Audit & Risk (ARC) at BMO Financial Group. Skills: Risk Management, Compliance, Audit. Support operating environment. Mitigate risk impacts”
What You'll Achieve.
Proactive, practical risk management; Scalable, sustainable operating environment; Proactive regulatory readiness; Stronger departmental operating effectiveness; Streamlined engagements; Consistent responses
Industry & Context.
Risk mitigation; Issue remediation; Action plan development
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor Degree in a relevant discipline, relevant certification in the Risk /Compliance domain, 7-10 years of relevant experience in Risk & Compliance roles, Experience executing 1LOD risk management responsibilities, Experience across Risk, Audit Compliance driven by all three lines of defense, Experience in Audit and Testing, Issue remediation, Monitoring and Reporting, policy changes, Recent focus on 1B and 2 LOD, drive execution of key risk and compliance programs, risk assessments, business continuity, operational resilience, stress test, SOX attestations, Experience developing controls, standard operating procedures, validating supporting control evidence, Exposure to Operational Non-Financial Risk, Model Risk Management, T&O Risk, Excellent knowledge of the Regulatory landscape specific to Financial Industry
What You'll Do.
Support operating environment
Mitigate risk impacts
Capture and share knowledge
Navigate audits and exams
Implement and maintain 1st LOD programs
Oversee business operations
Ensure adherence and efficiency
Contribute to risk management culture
Make recommendations on risk management
Advise leaders on emerging risks
Drive risk-management practices
Engrain knowledge-management practices
Support regulatory readiness
Lead control and evidence backbone
Maintain control library
Support exam-ready repositories
Establish evidence-management practices
Coordinate with Audit & Test management
Integrate evidence repositories
Identify control-adoption expectations
Communicate control expectations
Partner with control owners
Maintain Process Risk Controls library
Execute PRC-related programs
Lead risk and compliance programs
Support data & analytics risk framework
Support enterprise standard development
Support policy development
Support KRI development
Support KRI reporting
Align with policy changes
Align with regulatory changes
Strengthen risk-management activities
Strengthen compliance activities
Strengthen KRI development
Strengthen KRI reporting
Strengthen process documentation
Strengthen procedure documentation
Strengthen risk assessments
Scan environment for Data and Analytics regulatory changes
Advise on impacts to D&A programs
Promote issue self-identification
Support issue self-identification
Lead issue administration
Lead regulatory execution program
Orchestrate engagement readiness
Coordinate with Control & Evidence Management
Integrate engagement-management tooling
Integrate evidence archives
Advise teams on engagement responses
Advise senior leaders on engagement responses
Advise teams on issue responses
Advise senior leaders on issue responses
Drive enhancements to audit library
Drive enhancements to engagement-management tooling
Support streamlined engagements
Support consistent responses
Capture lessons learned
Lead engagement-identified issues
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with other first line employees; Collaborate with second line functions; Collaborate with third line functions; Partner across ARC; Partner across Enterprise; Partner with 1B/2LOD partners; Partner with control owners
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills
Process & Methodology
Engagement Management
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