Director, Enterprise Risk Management

Position Overview

The Director Enterprise Risk Management, as a member of Enterprise Risk Analytics team, is responsible for enterprise wide risk management processes and process management for operations integration.

Responsibilities

Risk Management, Enterprise-wide processes (70-75%)

• Manages business continuity framework, operational resilience strategy, third-party risk management, and other RGA Canada-wide processes.
• Monitor, assess, and propose implementation strategy for new and / or changing regulatory requirements.
• Assist in reviewing and updating policies under the responsibility of the CRO.
• Monitor, and / or measure, and / or analyse risk metrics.
• Assist in the production of various Risk Reports.
• Promote operational resiliency by mitigating vulnerabilities associated with critical processes and developing contingency plans.
• Reinforce all key concepts of business Continuity / Operational Resilience, including program management, risk awareness, identification & prioritization of critical functions / processes, recovery strategies, training and awareness and exercising / testing.
• Participate in Site Crisis Management Team
• Understand key contractual obligations that could be impacted by a disruption.
• Help ensure consistent and reliable application of risk management framework and policies across business areas, including business continuity management, cyber and IT recovery.
• Educate and train business on risk management frameworks and associated risk policies and guidance.
• Assist in Operational Risk Management oversight, including oversight over outsourced activities.

Process Management, Operations Integration (25-30%)

• Responsible for mapping of enterprise processes, IT architecture and systems integration requirements.
• Identify, understand, and document interdependencies of internal business processes, business applications and IT infrastructure, third parties, and facilities (including remote workers).
• Partners with business leaders to design operational strategies that meet the end-to-end data-flow requirements.
• Support inter-depart and / or multi-department process changes to improve efficiency, improve resiliency, and / or reduce operational risk.
• Promote (and / or be responsible for) documentation of processes and procedures.
• Streamline communication and collaboration between relevant stakeholders inside and outside the enterprise for area under management.

Requirements

Requirements :

• Bachelor’s degree in management, business administration, accounting, actuarial mathematics / actuarial science or any related field.
• 7+ years experience in finance industry in roles such as finance, valuation, operations, process management, enterprise risk management and / or related fields.
• 3+ years experience in regulatory compliance, internal / external audit, compliance, operational risk management or other relevant risk management / controls assessment experience.

Preferred :

• 3-5 years in insurance / reinsurance industry
• Risk Management Certification (for example CERA)
• Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) or Associate Business Continuity Planner (ABCP) designation
• Lean, Six Sigma, or some other applicable industry certification on process optimization
• Change Management certification (Prosci is préférable)

Skills & Abilities :

• Capacity to understand upstream and downstream impacts
• Capacity to make associations between initially unrelated information
• Capacity and eagerness to learn independently.
• Able to work autonomously as part of a larger team.
• Ability to foster a teamwork and customer service focused environment.
• Highly collaborative and comfortable working in a matrix structure with many different stakeholders
• Ability for persuasion and negotiation.
• Proficient in both English and French, spoken and written, as all the work is with international / English counterparts
• Advanced oral and written communication skills including presentation skills, demonstrating the ability to convey information in a way that is meaningful and well received by stakeholders and team members.
30+ days ago