What is the opportunity?

The Senior Manager IT Risk provides support to Capital Markets BCST team, by managing tech currency, risk, and infrastructure for BCST - Operations IT, BPS, and Middle Office Systems.

Their mandate will be to support critical Tech currency, IT Risk, and Infrastructure requirements to ensure system stability, resilience, and vulnerability requirements for applications across the portfolio are gathered, documented, monitored, and implemented. The successful candidate will not only track the existing work but find ways to improve the approach by improving visibility, methodology and changing the way teams operate.

What will you do?

• Responsible for the planning, execution, and delivery of multiple risk-based components across BCST
• Refine and understand what work teams need to complete for end of life, risk or currency remediation for technical teams
• Responsible for supporting ongoing progress reports and communications with Sr. Leadership.
• Provide strategic oversight into remediation approach and execution.
• Partner with leadership across BCST to understand key actions; cutting through reporting to provide simple “so what” items for action.
• Engage hands on teams who are managing remediation activities to ensure that output from remediation activities has traceability back to root causes.
• Partner with first, second and third line of defense colleagues, serving as a conduit to ensure program completion.

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• Proven leadership and project/program management skills to drive alignment across key functions.
• Experience managing or being a part of a compliance or risk management team for a large US bank.
• Deep understanding of risk framework, corporate/business policies, and programs to translate into plans for the business, function and/or risk type.
• Experience building executive level presentations and communications.
• Strong program and change management skills.
• Deep understanding and proven ability to build relationships with internal and external partners.
• Minimum 5 years of project delivery in technology, software, infrastructure, or risk
• Effective communication skills / executive presence. Previous consulting experience preferred.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience reporting in Jira and Confluence
• Creating reporting in Tableau or similar BI tools
• Knowledge of open-source risk and remediation
• Managing risk findings for a technical team

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.
• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients.
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

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Job Skills

Atlassian JIRA, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Cyber Security Management, Firewall Management, Information Security Management, IT Network Security, Management Reporting, Open Source Technologies, Operational Delivery, Problem Management, Process Management, Project Reporting, Security Risk, Security Risk Assessment, Senior Management Reporting, Threat Management

Additional Job Details

90 WESTERN PKY:BEDFORDBEDFORDCanada37.5Full timeCAPITAL MARKETSRegularSalaried2025-03-262025-04-30

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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