Senior Analyst In Business Risk

Peoples Group; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking financial institution that values trust, creativity, and collaboration. In this dynamic role, you will leverage your expertise in risk management to enhance compliance and foster a strong risk culture. You will work closely with stakeholders to develop effective strategies and training programs, ensuring that risk awareness is embedded throughout the organization. With a competitive salary and a flexible hybrid work environment, this opportunity is perfect for passionate individuals looking to make a significant impact in the financial sector.

Benefits

Group Benefits

RRSP Matching Program

Discretionary Profit Share Opportunity

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of risk or compliance experience in financial services.
• Strong skills in analyzing regulations and ensuring compliance.

Responsibilities

• Assist in executing risk management strategies in the First Line of Defense.
• Collaborate with business units to identify and assess operational risks.

Skills

Risk Management

Compliance Monitoring

Risk Analysis

Stakeholder Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance

Bachelor's degree in Business

Bachelor's degree in Risk Management

Tools

Risk Assessment Tools

Job description

Description

About us:

Peoples Group is a boutique financial institution with offices located in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal that has been in the Canadian marketplace for over 35 years. Our mission is to exceed our customers' expectations by providing exceptional customer service backed by extensive product knowledge and experience.

Our culture here at Peoples Group is formed by our values: Trustworthy, Creative, Willing. We believe people don't choose a company to work for, they choose a company to join. We prioritize risk-based practices and procedures in order to remain risk intelligent and compliant. We value people, building relationships, and focusing on strengths; we execute with passion.

About the work environment:

Peoples Group offers a flexible and hybrid work environment. In this role you will work a combination of in-office and remotely from home. Typically, you'll be working regular business hours, Monday to Friday between 8:00am and 4:30pm with flexibility around start/end times.

We are hiring for this position out of our Toronto office. Successful candidates who apply outside of these areas will be expected to relocate and reside in a location that is within a commutable distance.

About you:

You are passionate about Risk Management with experience in assisting business in implementing risk management policies, procedures, and training programs. You have experience in identifying and evaluating risks, implementing risk mitigation strategies, and improving stakeholder satisfaction. You also have risk analysis, compliance monitoring & remediation experience and enjoy having strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to achieve risk management objectives.

About the qualifications:

• 1-3 years of risk or compliance experience within the financial services industry within the first or 2nd line of defense.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as finance, business, or risk management.
• Proven experience and highly skilled at analyzing, interpreting regulations and implementing general policies and procedures to ensure compliance.
• Prior experience in reviewing processes, control testing, results analysis and report writing.
• Experience in developing and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in developing and delivering training.
• Experience working in risk and regulatory projects within Financial Institutions.

About the day-to-day:

• Assist the IN-Business group to drive and execute an end-to-end strategy fostering risk awareness and risk culture in the First Line of Defense (1LOD).
• Coordinates and facilitates risk management activities in collaboration with business unit leaders.
• Assist in the development of 1LOD standard operating procedures.
• Works with the business to proactively identify and assess operational risks across the Business units using a range of risk assessment techniques and tools. Collaborate with business units and departments to develop and implement risk treatment plans.
• Assist in designing Test Plans and perform controls testing of 1LOD adherence to enterprise-level requirements and business unit specific operating procedures.
• Work with the business owners when there are weaknesses identified through testing to ensure they develop appropriate action plans and implement them in a timely manner.
• Assist with development and maintenance of business unit specific training to ensure all business owners can effectively carry out all risk management and compliance activities.
• Assist the Business with compliance related activities and remediation.
• Collaborate with the Compliance oversight partners and respond to queries, attestations etc. on behalf of Management.

Compensation:

Peoples Group is pleased to offer employees a competitive annual salary plus a discretionary profit share opportunity. In addition, we are pleased to offer employees both group benefits and the option to participate in our RRSP matching program, beginning the first day of employment. Salary for this position will vary between $75,000 and $90,000 per year depending on the knowledge, skills, abilities and experience that the chosen candidate possesses. As part of our recruiting process, shortlisted candidates will be asked their salary expectations for this position.

NOTE: Peoples Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest; however, only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. This job posting is for an existing vacancy.