Director, Enterprise Risk Management
Reinsurance Group of America
Canada, Montreal
$67K a year (estimated)
Full-time
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