Manager (Investment Controls and Governance)

Collabera; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Collabera in Downtown Toronto is seeking a Manager, Program Controls, Workflows & Governance to lead the controls framework for a multi-year Investment Platform Transformation. You will design, document, and coordinate controls across the program, ensuring governance from an audit and risk perspective.

The role requires hands-on experience in controls or technology controls, capital markets knowledge, and the ability to translate risk requirements into concrete controls, with collaboration

Qualifications

• 7+ years of controls, audit, technology controls, operational risk, compliance, or program assurance experience.
• CPA or professional controls/risk certification such as CISA, CIA, CRISC, CISSP, or equivalent
• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing controls, including control documentation, evidence requirements, testing, governance, deficiencies, and remediation
• Capital markets/investment management experience, with an understanding of investment platforms, business/product processes, and the broader investment lifecycle
• Experience translating audit and risk requirements into practical controls, workflows, documentation, and governance processes
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience across business/product, technology, risk, audit, compliance, and transformation/change teams

Responsibilities

• The Manager will act as the central controls lead for the Investment Platform Transformation, coordinating with business/product teams, Risk, Audit, Technology, Data, and other stakeholders.
• Design and implement controls, create and maintain evidence, ensure processes and workflows meet audit and risk requirements.
• Support development of the Target Operating Model by reviewing workflows, roles, touchpoints, access requirements, and embedded controls.
• Coordinate audit and assurance requests, support access and segregation-of-duties governance, track deficiencies and remediation, report on control health and risks.

Skills

Controls/audit experience

Capital markets experience

Translate risk into controls

Stakeholder management

Hands-on controls implementation

Technology controls background

Education

CPA or professional controls/risk certification (CISA, CIA, CRISC, CISSP)

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

ServiceNow

Power BI

GRC platforms

Job description

Title: Manager, Program Controls, Workflows & Governance

Type: 12-month contract

Location: Downtown Toronto, ON (Hybrid - minimum 4 day/week in office)

Collabera is seeking a Manager, Program Controls, Workflows & Governance to support multi-year Investment Platform Transformation within the Change Management team.

This is a net-new role that will serve as the primary point person for controls across the program. This person will be responsible for designing, implementing, documenting, and coordinating the program’s control framework, ensuring that business processes, workflows, and the broader transformation are appropriately governed from an audit and risk perspective.

we are looking for someone with a strong controls/audit or technology controls background combined with capital markets experience. The person needs to understand the investment platform and business/product environment and be able to translate audit and risk requirements into practical controls, documentation, workflows, and governance. This is not purely an audit oversight position — they need someone hands-on who can actually help build and implement the controls environment.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

The Manager, Program Controls, Workflows & Governance will act as the central controls lead for the Investment Platform Transformation, working closely with business/product teams, Change Management, Risk, Audit, Technology, Data, and other program stakeholders. They will design and implement controls, create and maintain supporting documentation and evidence, and ensure program processes and future-state workflows meet audit and risk requirements. They will support the development of the Target Operating Model by reviewing business workflows, roles, hand-offs, system/data touchpoints, access requirements, and embedded controls. The Manager will also coordinate audit and assurance requests, support access and segregation-of-duties governance, track control deficiencies and remediation, and provide leadership with reporting on control health, outstanding risks, and readiness.

Must-Haves:

• 7+ years of controls, audit, technology controls, operational risk, compliance, or program assurance experience, ideally supporting large-scale transformation programs
• CPA or professional controls/risk certification such as CISA, CIA, CRISC, CISSP, or equivalent
• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing controls, including control documentation, evidence requirements, testing, governance, deficiencies, and remediation
• Capital markets/investment management experience, with an understanding of investment platforms, business/product processes, and the broader investment lifecycle
• Experience translating audit and risk requirements into practical controls, workflows, documentation, and governance processes
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience working across business/product, technology, risk, audit, compliance, and transformation/change teams

Plusses:

• Strong technology controls background and/or experience supporting controls within a major technology/platform implementation
• Experience developing or supporting Target Operating Models and future-state workflows, including roles, hand-offs, system/data touchpoints, controls, and approvals
• Experience with Black-Rock Aladdin or another major investment management platform, and tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Power BI, or GRC platforms

We may use AI-enabled and/or automated tools to support parts of our recruitment process, including application screening, interview scheduling, and candidate communications. These tools are used to enhance consistency and efficiency. All hiring decisions involve human review and are not based solely on automated processing.

The Company offers a total rewards package in accordance with all applicable federal, provincial, and local laws and requirements. Benefit eligibility and offerings vary based on role, employment status, and work location. For contractor positions, benefits are limited to those entitlements and protections required by applicable law, which may include (as applicable) vacation pay, public holidays, leaves of absence, and other legally mandated benefits or payments.