BMO Financial Group

Financial Services

LeadCompliance,Audit&Risk(ARC)

$86–160k Toronto, Ontario, Canada FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“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.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

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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