Senior Consultant, Business Enablement & Governance

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As the Senior Consultant, Business Enablement & Governance, reporting into the Director, Business Controls, you’ll lead the management of material, systemic and emerging risks across the Enterprise Channels line of business. You’ll develop and implement integrated control improvement solutions across all products and distribution channels. You’ll manage key controls to mitigate operational exposures and potential losses. You’ll provide support of CIBC’s Control Framework to ensure compliance to regulatory, legislative and operational requirements, including the efficient and effective management of deficiency remediation.

You’ll act as the key relationship manager for the business.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 1-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote.

• Risk Assessment & Remediation – You will work closely with the LOB partners to proactively identify risk exposures and control gaps, to analyze and synthesize risk exposures, operational losses, root causes and control gaps and determine materiality. You will propose recommendations to mitigate risk exposures/control gaps. You will lead the Incident Reporting investigation and Change Initiative Risk Assessment (CIRA) process, ensuring all material risks are identified and compliant to the CIBC CIRA policy and process.
  
  You will manage all deficiencies for the LOB, ensuring closure dates are met and no deficiencies go past due. You will lead the implementation of remediation plans for targeted control gaps/special projects.

• Risk Consulting – You will lead the completion of all CIBC Control Framework requirements. Acting as the risk and control Subject Matter Expert (SME) providing expert advice to LOB partners. Leading all internal audits, compliance exams for the business. Provide ongoing management of self-assessment processes. Participating in larger more complex business, governance and regulatory projects to identify risk and control issues, recommend solutions and develop control requirements.

• Control Framework Execution – You understand and communicate the Control Framework requirements to LOB partners to ensure they understand and are aware of accountabilities. You lead the completion of all requirements including:
  Risk and Controls Self-Assessment (RCSA), Scenarios, Deficiency Management, Key Risk Indicators, Incident reporting, Regulatory Compliance Incident (RCIs) reporting, etc. You act as the SOX Officer/Maintenance Officer (SOMO) for Operational Process Controls (OPC) and Regulatory Compliance Management (RCM) controls. You develop and recommend new/changes to Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities (KAR) and formal key Control and Non-Key Control testing programs. You develop reporting and summarize control testing results in preparation for LOB/Executive reviews and sign-off processes.

• Analytical – Proactively identify risk exposures and control gaps. Analyze and synthesize risk exposures, operational losses, root causes and control gaps. Proactively assess and recommend self-assessed deficiencies. Propose recommendations to mitigate risk exposures and control gaps.

• Relationship Building/Management – You will manage key relationships and collaborate with business partners, 2nd and 3rd lines of defense for all matters relating to operational risk. You will manage relationships at peer or director level, as well as project/initiative managers within the assigned Lines of Business (LOBs). You will represent Business Controls on key business initiatives.

• You can demonstrate experience. In business controls,…