manager, financial control

RBC Dominion Securities; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services firm is seeking a Manager for Sanctions Compliance in Toronto, ON. This role will focus on enhancing the Sanctions Risk Assessment process, reviewing control effectiveness, and working closely with data. Ideal candidates should have 2+ years in risk management, strong analysis skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel. The position is full-time and on-site, offering a competitive hourly rate.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in risk management, compliance, internal audit, or regulatory reporting.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and complex formulas.
• Strong communication and excellent writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Support execution of sanctions risk assessment activities across business units.
• Conduct Review and Challenge of sanctions Control Self-Assessments.
• Analyze client, transaction, and product data for risk observations.
• Produce risk assessment result visualizations and draft reports.

Skills

Risk management

Compliance

Data analysis

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

2+ years of experience in financial services

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Manager, Sanctions Compliance (Contract)

Posted on October 31, 2025 by RBC Dominion Securities

Job details

What is the opportunity? The Global Economic Sanctions (GES) team is a unique function within the Financial Crimes that provides support to Global Financial Crimes teams and Business Units at an enterprise level for Canadian, US, UK, EU/Europe, APAC and Caribbean economic sanctions. We are seeking a highly motivated Manager to support the execution and continuous enhancement of the Sanctions Risk Assessment process, with a focus on reviewing control effectiveness, interpreting data outputs, and supporting automation requirements. This role involves participating in the execution of enterprise questionnaires, reviewing and challenging inputs and outputs, and helping ensure consistency, traceability, and automation across the risk assessment lifecycle. *This is a contract position for 7.5 months*

What will you do?

• Support the end‑to‑end execution of sanctions risk assessment activities across business units and jurisdictions.
• Conduct the Review and Challenge of sanctions Control Self‑Assessments Questionnaires, Qualitative Risk Questionnaires, and Product & Service Questionnaires.
• Review large amounts of quantitative data feeding into the risk assessment to calculate quantitative risk rating, and conduct Review & Challenge on calculation outputs and quantitative risk metrics.
• Provide automation requirements across the sanctions risk assessment process, including quality checks on questionnaire responses, logic for auto‑adjudication to streamline review and challenge, risk flagging mechanisms based on common patterns of data or control errors, and review outputs of the automation scripts to ensure they reflect business rules, logic documentation, and risk expectations.
• Analyze client, transaction, and product data to draw meaningful risk observations and help identify inconsistencies, high‑risk patterns, or data quality concerns.
• Support the completion of enterprise‑wide questionnaires and coordinate with local teams on jurisdiction‑specific input.
• Produce risk assessment result visualization and draft formal Sanctions Risk Assessment Reports at assessment unit, segment, board, and enterprise level, as required, synthesizing risk ratings, control performance and gaps, data limitations, and recommendations.
• Collaborate with compliance, data, and technology stakeholders to discuss input/output data and resolve risk assessment‑related queries.
• Assist in managing multiple deliverables across tight timelines, while maintaining high attention to detail.
• Perform other governance responsibilities, including producing sanctions dashboard and management reporting, assisting in audit, testing or regulatory exams related to sanctions, and tracking and closing sanctions‑related issues.
• Assess and review sanctions policies and procedures developed by global business units and/or local compliance teams; review and recommend amendments to the enterprise sanctions policy based on knowledge of the global sanctions environment.
• Develop and update sanctions related training.
• Complete other ad‑hoc assignments supporting GES program oversight team.

What do you need to succeed?

• Must‑have: 2+ years of experience in risk management, compliance, internal audit, 2nd line testing, or regulatory reporting within financial services.
• Experience working with data inputs/outputs and interpreting them in a business or risk context, including high proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g. pivot table, complex formula, VBA).
• Strong communication skills and experience.
• Excellent writing and analysis skills.
• Quick learner and self‑starter.
• Nice‑to‑have: Exposure to sanctions controls, financial crime risk, or operational risk reviews; experience with risk assessments or quality assurance reviews; CAMS, CSS or equivalent sanctions or AML certification.

What's in it for you?

• Location: Toronto, ON
• Work location: On site
• Salary: $26.73 to $67.00 per hour hourly
• Terms of employment: Permanent employment Full time
• Starts as soon as possible
• Vacancies: 1 vacancy
• Source: CareerBeacon #2186911

Advertised until: 2025-11-30