Lead, Compliance Operations

OMERS; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join OMERS as a Lead in Compliance Operations, where you will support the Vice President in ensuring compliance across the organization. This role requires analytical expertise to identify process improvements and manage compliance training programs in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in regulatory compliance.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently.
• Exceptional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer compliance training programs.
• Execute monitoring and testing of compliance activities.
• Conduct research to meet compliance requirements.

Skills

Analytical skills

Regulatory compliance

Critical thinking

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

University degree in business administration

Program graduate in finance or analytical discipline

Tools

Excel

SharePoint

PowerPoint

Asana

PowerBI

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The Compliance Lead currently reports to the Vice President, Compliance Operations. The role supports the Vice President in compliance monitoring to ensure organizational compliance with applicable policies and regulations as well as in projects that analyze and define process improvement initiatives, identifying gaps and developing recommendations.

We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. In delivering on our pension promise, keeping us connected to our work and each other, our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come in to the office 4 days per week.

As a member of this team, you will be responsible for:

• Perform assessment, coordinating with the Global Compliance team when needed, of the applicable compliance designation for new or changed roles within the organization;
• Administer the mandatory compliance training programs and associated monitoring to enable our key training activities;
• Execute the monitoring and testing of various compliance activities to demonstrate compliance with the regulatory compliance monitoring program, establish insights, action as needed and prepare meaningful reporting for management;
• Conduct research, provide analysis and support solutions to meet compliance requirements;
• Proactively review current practices, analyze and identify potential design and process improvements for the implementation of new compliance tools and processes;
• Perform ongoing review of compliance tools and monitoring content to promote data accuracy and integrity as a key departmental internal control measure;
• Manage incoming due diligence requests, perform analysis and reporting to support our investment teams with KYC obligations;
• Create and/or enhance compliance management process documentation (e.g., compliance procedures, compliance solution requirements, etc.);
• Work collaboratively with members of the global Compliance team and other colleagues from across the organization to reach strategic objectives; and
• Serve as a liaison for internal stakeholders to receive relevant feedback and support issue resolution.
  
  

To succeed in this role, you have the following qualifications:

Professional

• 5+ years of relevant experience in regulatory compliance or similar functions.
• University degree or college program graduate in business administration, finance or an analytical discipline such as statistics, mathematics or engineering.
• Advanced analytical abilities and critical thinking skills.
• Initiative-taker and comfortable working both collaboratively as well as independently.
• Prior experience working with compliance monitoring programs and process improvement.
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to communicate clearly, concisely and accurately (verbal/written).
• Demonstrated ability to support strategic objectives and monitor progress using effective controls and success criteria.
• Strong people skills with an ability to work across multiple teams within the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to map and analyze business processes and identify opportunities for improvement to align with compliance objectives;
• Able to deal with changing priorities; and
• Independently prioritizes work and able to accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  
  

Technical Knowledge And Skills

• Intermediate to advanced user of Excel with ability to create meaningful reporting with insights;
• Intermediate level user of SharePoint, Word and PowerPoint;
• Intermediate to advanced user of Asana for workload and project management preferred; and
• Experience with PowerBI or other data visualization platforms would be an asset.
  
  

As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

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