What is the opportunity?
We’re seeking a Senior Risk Analyst to serve as the operational backbone of our risk management function. This role ensures the team stays on top of critical risk issues, audit findings, compliance requirements, and certificate renewals by maintaining visibility, tracking timelines, and driving accountability.
The successful candidate will combine project management discipline with risk acumen to keep high-priority items moving forward, escalate issues appropriately, and ensure the team remains proactive in addressing risk exposure.
What will you do?
Risk & Compliance Tracking: Maintain comprehensive visibility of all pending risk items, audit findings, compliance issues, and certificate renewals; track status and deadlines
Weekly Monitoring & Communication: Conduct weekly touchpoints with team members to review pending items, identify blockers, and ensure awareness of high-priority, time-sensitive issues
Escalation Management: Escalate stalled or at-risk items through appropriate channels; identify course correction needs and facilitate approvals or remediation decisions
Project Coordination: Manages timelines for risk remediation and compliance activities; coordinate with relevant stakeholders to ensure timely completion
Issue Documentation: Document risk items, status updates, remediation progress, and resolutions; maintain organized tracking systems for audit trail and reporting
Accountability & Follow-Up: Follow up on outstanding action items; ensure team members understand deadlines and dependencies; track completion and communicate results
Reporting & Visibility: Prepare status reports and dashboards for management visibility; highlight critical issues requiring leadership attention or decision-making
Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline risk tracking and compliance processes; implement tools or workflows to improve team efficiency
What do you need to succeed?
Degree or diploma in Business Administration, Finance, or transferable field
3+ years of experience maintaining comprehensive visibility of pending risk items, audit findings, compliance issues, and certificate renewals; demonstrated track record tracking status and deadlines across complex, multi-threaded initiatives
3+ years of experience escalating stalled or at-risk items through appropriate channels; demonstrated ability to identify course correction needs and facilitate approvals or remediation decisions in risk and compliance environments
Advanced Excel proficiency: Strong skills in data organization, tracking, pivot tables, and reporting; ability to build and maintain tracking dashboards and status reports
Risk reporting experience: Familiarity with risk metrics, status reporting formats, and communicating risk information to leadership and stakeholders
Certificate and compliance tracking: Experience managing certificate renewals, expiration tracking, and compliance deadlines; understanding of time-sensitive compliance requirements
Financial services experience: Familiarity with financial services risk and compliance landscapes; general understanding of audit, control environments, and risk remediation
Project management mindset: Proven ability to organize, prioritize, and track multiple concurrent initiatives; comfort with detailed planning and accountability
Nice to have:
Knowledge of financial services regulations or compliance frameworks
Familiarity with escalation procedures and governance frameworks
Experience with PowerBI, ServiceNow, or other enterprise tracking platforms
Knowledge of ISO standards or industry compliance requirements
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
Opportunities to do challenging work
Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
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Job Skills
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Cyber Security Management, Firewall Management, Information Security Management, IT Network Security, Operational Delivery, Problem Management, Process Management, Threat Management
Additional Job Details
180 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO
Toronto
Canada
37.5
Full time
TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS
Regular
Salaried
2026-05-13
2026-06-03
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
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