Bilingual Senior Specialist, Lending portfolio monitoring

CMHC; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing policy organization is looking for a Bilingual Senior Specialist in Analytics to join their Housing Policy team. This role involves monitoring credit risk and portfolio performance while transforming complex data into actionable insights. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in financial analysis and are fluent in both English and French. They offer comprehensive benefits and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Annual paid vacation

Annual individual performance incentive

Defined benefit pension plan

Comprehensive group insurance plan

Support for personal and professional growth

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in credit risk management, financial analysis, and portfolio monitoring.
• Strong understanding of financial risk, particularly mortgage-secured lending.
• Proficiency in both official languages, English and French.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and assess credit risk and portfolio performance.
• Develop visualizations to communicate risk trends.
• Conduct stress testing and scenario analysis.

Skills

Credit risk management

Financial analysis

Portfolio monitoring

Communication skills

Data visualization tools

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, or related discipline

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SAS

Python

R

Job description

About CMHC

The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well-functioning housing system.

At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. Our leadership style is guided by trust, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

What’s in it for you

We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s the comprehensive and generous benefits you get when you’re a permanent employee:

• Annual Paid vacation.
• Annual individual performance incentive.
• Defined benefit pension plan.
• Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
• Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more.
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment.
• While positions at CMHC require some in-office presence, alternative work arrangements may be considered for Indigenous candidates.

About the role

Join the Housing Policy and Program team as a Bilingual Senior Specialist, Analytics (Lending Portfolio Monitoring). In this role, you will lead strategic analytics to monitor credit risk and portfolio performance, ensuring alignment with CMHC’s risk appetite and regulatory standards. You will turn financial data into actionable insights, develop visualizations to communicate risk trends, and assess external market factors impacting portfolio quality.

What you'll do

• Monitor and assess credit risk and performance on the lending portfolio, ensuring alignment with risk appetite and regulatory standards, while evaluating effects on portfolio quality, loss provisioning, and capital adequacy.
• Champion stress testing and scenario analysis, in collaboration with the Chief Risk Office (CRO) to evaluate portfolio resilience under adverse conditions, including impacts on expected and unexpected losses.
• Transform raw credit and financial data into actionable insights that support strategic decision-making and risk mitigation.
• Develop compelling data narratives and visualizations to communicate financial risk trends (notably credit risk), emerging exposures, and business impact.
• Perform trend analysis to identify early warning signals and provide forward-looking insights into business and program performance.
• Monitor external developments and market risk factors—including macroeconomic trends, regulatory changes, and interest rate exposure—to assess their impact on lending portfolio and capital planning.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of the sector risk profiler and the CRO’s Quarterly Risk Management (QRM).
• Partner with the CRO, Treasury, Finance, and business units to ensure a coordinated and proactive approach to managing financial and credit risks, while operating effectively within a Three Lines of Defence (3LoD) governance model to promote clear accountability and risk ownership across functions.

What you should have

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in credit risk management, financial analysis, and portfolio monitoring.
• A strong understanding of financial risk (credit, market, liquidity, and capital), including the distinction between expected and unexpected loss, and the ability to translate data into strategic insights.
• A deep understanding of mortgage-secured lending, the Canadian construction market, housing economics, and macro indicators, with the ability to relate these to portfolio-level lending risk.
• Experience in monitoring loan performance, assessing loan loss provision (capital) sufficiency, and supporting risk-based decision-making.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders in both official languages (French and English).
• Experience in quality control and oversight of analytical deliverables.

It would be great if you also had

• Hold a recognized professional designation such as CFA or FRM.
• Demonstrated experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and proficiency in Microsoft Azure environments like Databricks.
• Skilled in a broad range of analytics tools and languages, including SAS, Python, R, Hive, Alteryx, and SQL.
• Familiar with credit risk or enterprise-wide risk initiatives, and advanced analytics techniques such as supervised learning, NLP, time series analysis, and A/B testing.

Posting closing date

Note, the competition will remain active until filled.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

We’re committed to employment equity and encourage women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions to apply. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada.

CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought – and of people – are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our mission.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

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What happens after you apply

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If you applied before and you were not successful don’t worry – we’re always posting new positions, so don’t hesitate to give it another shot. We’re excited to see what you bring to the table this time around!