Insight Global is seeking a Senior Analyst who will be responsible for conducting controls testing for a leading Financial Corporation in downtown Toronto!

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Senior Associate will be required to develop a deep understanding of regulatory requirements, business processes, and Enterprise Risk Standards to effectively conduct control testing. Successful candidates must demonstrate strong critical thinking, judgment, and analysis skills. Additionally, the role requires the ability to collaborate effectively with business partners and communicate findings in a clear and professional manner.

The right candidate will have:

• A solid understanding of risk management and governance principles and familiarity with the processes and controls that govern these activities (i.e., three lines of defense model and risk framework principles)
• The ability to distill complex information into a clear and concise narrative
• The ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects and deliverables
• Solid analytical and investigative skills
• A proven track record in driving high quality and timely results
• The ability to work autonomously in a dynamically changing environment
• Demonstrated business maturity with the ability to effectively communicate and influence stakeholders within all levels of the organization, establish and maintain positive relationships
• Solid interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
• Strong judgment and knowledge of when to escalate with appropriate stakeholders before issues arise

Responsibilities:

• Lead or support the execution of control tests to assess the design and operating effectiveness of control activities
• Collaborate with business partners and review documentation to gather information to perform control testing
• Proactively manage testing activities and schedules to ensure that all activities and reporting are completed within expected timelines
• Analyze data to identify issues and trends across the Canada controls environment
• Execute control testing across a variety of control types, including manual and automated controls where the ability to query data using SQL may be leveraged
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with business and second line partners
• Assist in the creation of reporting to communicate testing results to business partners
• Clearly document and communicate results from control tests for stakeholder review
• Support the development of reports and briefing materials to senior management
• Navigate organization to quickly understand business processes and requirements necessary to complete testing and to develop a deep understanding of how processes evolve to continually meet changing business requirements
• Support strategic risk projects as assigned
• Remain current on risk management trends, best practices, and guidelines issued by applicable regulatory bodies

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 3 years of financial consumer compliance monitoring experience or 3 years of consumer compliance auditing experience or 3 years of experience in assessing processes and their controls, or 3 years of experience in assessing third parties and vendors
• Experience in preparing and writing business documents (i.e., presentations for leadership meetings or forums, briefing memos, and reports)
• Familiarity with applicable Canadian regulators (OSFI, OPC, FCAC) and regulations that apply to a credit card business
• Basic data analysis and scripting experience (SQL, Python)

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Relevant certification or accreditation in Compliance, Risk Management, Legal, or other related fields
• Working knowledge of cloud data structure (snowflake)
• Experience creating and reviewing test scripts using SQL/Python to test full populations for key attributes
• Working knowledge of French language
• Strong leadership skills and capabilities
• Familiarity of a credit card business, practices, and operations