Senior Analyst, Enterprise Risk Management, Risk Advisory Services

Loblaw; Brampton; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Loblaw Companies Limited is seeking a Senior Analyst for the Risk Advisory Services (RAS) team to lead and execute high-impact risk engagements across its portfolio. You will build relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and deliver business-oriented solutions in a fast-paced environment.

You are a curious, entrepreneurial, and business-minded professional with critical thinking, data visualization, and interpersonal skills to proactively leverage data sources and address key business

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise risk management and advisory work.
• Ability to translate complex risks into clear visual materials.
• Strong interpersonal skills to engage with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute risk management activities with cross-functional project teams, delivering risk assessments, monitoring, and quarterly reports.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to produce highly visual presentations and workshops that map current and emerging risks and mitigation actions.
• Establish risk monitoring protocols and track remediation with action owners for significant risks.
• Develop strong relationships with internal/external partners to understand challenges and offer data-driven insights.
• Create and present creative visual reporting material for the Senior Leadership Team and Board.

Skills

risk management

data visualization

interpersonal skills

critical thinking

Job description

Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections is valued - as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country's largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well.
At Loblaw Companies Limited, we succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new job, this is where you belong.

ABOUT THE TEAM

As a key business partner, the 'Risk Advisory Services (RAS)' team is a progressive and dynamic world-class consulting function that collaborates with the business functions to protect, improve, and grow its technology and infrastructure, governance, people, and programs, through driving strategic initiatives, risk management initiatives, assurance, and advisory engagements across Loblaws, PC Bank, Shoppers Drug Mart, Choice Properties and George Weston Limited.

The RAS team plays an important role by building a world-class program to support our businesses in meeting their strategic plans through fostering a practical and disciplined risk management culture within the business to ensure that business risks, including emerging risks and macro-economic trends are identified, evaluated, and managed within the desired tolerance levels. The team also provides advisory services and acts as a change-agent in strategic and high-risk areas.

You will work with a team that values diverse ideas, prioritizes a culture of inclusion, and develops our talent from within. We hire business-minded and entrepreneurial people, who strive to learn and solve problems. We will fuel your curiosity with challenging work, talented colleagues, and creative learning resources. At every level, we champion leaders who influence and achieve results.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Senior Analyst will be responsible to help lead and execute on a variety of high-impact and high-visibility risk engagements across our portfolio of entities, delivering top-quality business-oriented solutions, and for building relationships with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders in critical and exciting operational and strategic areas.

The company is looking for an individual with a curious, entrepreneurial, and business-oriented mindset, who is self-driven and possesses the right critical thinking, data visualization, and interpersonal skills to proactively tap into existing and potential data sources and seek answers to important business challenges.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The role will support the development and execution of the enterprise risk framework, identify and help the business respond to emerging trends, diving deep into key areas, and working with senior leaders to report on top-of-mind issues, and deliver on improvement roadmaps.

• Lead and Execute risk management activities working with integrated project teams focusing on analyzing, communicating, and evaluating any significant business issues. This will include preparing, and delivering materials related to Risk Assessments, Risk Monitoring, and executing Periodic/Quarterly Risk Reporting which identifies changes to the organizational risk profile.
• Work directly with key business stakeholders to produce and present highly visual presentations and workshops which connect the dots in a simple and business-oriented way, capturing current and emerging risks, potential issues, opportunities, and mitigating activities.
• Establish risk monitoring protocols to evaluate if risk mitigation is effective, and regularly follow up with action owners to ensure timely remediation where significant risks exist.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal/external partners and co-workers to understand current and emerging challenges impacting our business and propose fresh ways to use this information to our competitive advantage.
• Develop and present creative and visual reporting material for the Senior Leadership Team and the Board and Sub-committees.
• Collaborate with Assurance & Advisory function to align and jointly execute risk and compliance activities (e.g.: project specific risk assessments, design & effectiveness testing) to ensure appropriate 2nd Line business coverage, and to ensure Risk Advisory project findings are incorporated into risk information.

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