Senior Manager, Governance & Control

Work Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

37.5

Governance & Control

$115,600 - $163,200 CAD

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The TDS Governance and Control team is a first line of defense team responsible for providing risk and compliance advice and oversight to ensure our TDS business partners have adequately considered, managed, and mitigated risks in day‑to‑day activities, operations, products and services, and are operating within risk appetite in compliance with regulatory requirements, bank policies and risk appetite.

Members of TDS Governance & Control require sufficient expertise to review and assess whether the Business is adhering to internal (risk management, oversight function and audit) and regulatory requirements, requests, and expectations.

Reporting to the AVP & Managing Director, Governance and Controls, the Senior Manager and Director supports Change Governance Programs across TD Securities (Globally), ensuring a strategic, risk‑based approach for alignment with Enterprise Change Governance Standards.

The position has a high level of direct interaction with Executive Sponsors, the business, Change Delivery Teams, and Risk and Control partners. This position will require an individual who can "think outside of the box" in terms of developing, communicating, sharing, implementing and improving project methodology and governance processes, controls and tools.

• Partner with the Business, Risk and Change Delivery to manage the New Business and Product Approval process.
• Partner with the Business, Risk and Change Delivery to approve Change Risk Assessments.
• Build and maintain relationships with 1st and 2nd line partners as well as other key stakeholders to ensure TDS changes and associated risks are understood.
• Provide coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business executives within the area of Change Governance.
• Contribute to team development by sharing knowledge and experiences, leveraging best practices.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of existing and emerging regulatory requirements, inherent risks, Compliance Policies and Standards, to ensure program alignment and provide tailored advice and strategic counsel to TDS partners.
• Foster an effective, transparent culture of risk awareness, accountability, ethics, integrity, and conduct.
• Evaluate business strategy and activities against risk appetite and provide management and stakeholders with sufficient and timely insight into the business and industry landscape.
• Partner with Business to ensure risks are adequately identified, assessed, and develop risk mitigation strategies to manage current and emerging risk exposures across all risk categories and all business areas.
• Accountability to establish, deliver and support governance processes across TD Securities.
• Support the Business in the design, implementation, and sustainment of controls within key processes and procedures.
• In partnership with the 2nd line and oversight functions, provide advice and facilitate discussions with management and stakeholders on relevant internal and external events and collaborate to expediently resolve incidents, identify, and track issues to remediation and develop processes to create timely, complete, and accurate reporting.
• Enable initiative‑taking, data‑driven, risk‑based decision making.
• Partner with Business to proactively prepare for internal / regulatory requests, testing engagements, exams, and…