Toronto Senior Manager, Compliance Testing Lead

TD; Toronto; On-site; CAD 116,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

TD is seeking a Senior Manager, Compliance Testing Team Lead in Toronto to direct a team of 4-5 testers, design the annual test plan, and drive risk-based testing across compliance monitoring. You will partner with Compliance leadership and business stakeholders to ensure robust controls and timely remediation.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in compliance/risk roles, a university degree, and strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in compliance-related roles in financial services.
• University degree; professional certifications considered an asset.
• Proven leadership of teams and risk-based testing engagements.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development, design, and execution of the annual Compliance Test Plan.
• Manage team of 4-5 testers.
• Provide strategic oversight of multiple testing engagements and testing resources, ensuring consistent execution, documentation quality, and application of testing methodology across reviews.
• Lead, coach, develop, and evaluate a team of Compliance Testing professionals, including talent management, performance management, and professional development activities.
• Oversee the design and execution of testing engagements, including review scoping, testing strategy development, fieldwork execution, issue identification, and reporting.
• Review and challenge testing approaches, workpaper quality, issue rationale, supporting evidence, and conclusions to ensure consistency, quality, and QA defensible outcomes for your team.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business, Compliance, Risk, Legal, Audit, and other control function stakeholders, serving as a senior point of contact throughout the review lifecycle.
• Engage and drive discussion with stakeholders to exercise credible challenge.
• Communicate and agree to the acceptance of issues and assist in the development of the appropriate action plans.
• Oversee remediation and validation of issues identified in testing and monitoring activities.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to ensure timely closure of issues identified during testing.
• Identify areas for enhanced monitoring and testing.
• Partner with Data Analytics teams to enhance testing capabilities through analytics, automation, reporting, and AI-enabled solutions. And ensure we have the appropriate metrics and reporting for testing activities throughout our testing cycle.
• Participate in special projects as they arise to enhance Compliance functions.

Skills

Compliance testing leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Risk management

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Project management

Communication skills

Executive reporting

Education

University degree

JD or MBA asset

Professional certifications asset

Tools

Data analytics tools

Reporting tools

AI-enabled tools

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Job description

TD is seeking a Senior Manager, Compliance Testing Team Lead in Toronto to direct a team of 4-5 testers, design the annual test plan, and drive risk-based testing across compliance monitoring. You will partner with Compliance leadership and business stakeholders to ensure robust controls and timely remediation.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in compliance/risk roles, a university degree, and strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills.