Risk & Resilience Assistant Manager — Strategic Partner

Canada Life; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education reimbursement up to CAD 2, 0

Health benefits

Volunteer day

Pension plan

Employee discounts

Job summary

Canada Life in Winnipeg seeks an Assistant Manager, Risk & Resilience to strengthen risk governance and business continuity across Insurance Solutions. You will partner with senior leaders to identify, assess, and mitigate operational and regulatory risks.

This role offers broad exposure, cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to influence risk decisions while advancing resilience initiatives and providing leadership with clear risk insights.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in operational risk management, internal controls, compliance or related disciplines.
• Experience facilitating risk assessments, risk statements, control assessments, and mitigation plans.
• Knowledge of governance frameworks and internal control practices.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to identify, monitor, and manage operational, regulatory and strategic risks.
• Lead risk assessments including risk statements, inherent and residual risk, and control effectiveness.
• Facilitate risk assessment workshops and stakeholder discussions.
• Collaborate to identify control gaps and develop corrective actions.
• Document and support testing of internal controls and risk programs.
• Support RCA/RCSA, KRIs, BCM, risk events, scenario analysis and EUC management.

Skills

Operational risk management

Internal controls

Regulatory compliance

Risk governance

Business continuity

Education

Post-secondary education in Business/Finance/Risk Management/Accounting

CRM/CRMA/CIA/CPA (asset)

Job description

Canada Life in Winnipeg seeks an Assistant Manager, Risk & Resilience to strengthen risk governance and business continuity across Insurance Solutions. You will partner with senior leaders to identify, assess, and mitigate operational and regulatory risks.

This role offers broad exposure, cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to influence risk decisions while advancing resilience initiatives and providing leadership with clear risk insights.