Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:
37.5
Line of Business:
Governance & Control
Pay Details:
$96,900 - $136,800 CAD
Job Description:
Department Overview:
TD Finance Governance & Control (Finance G&C or 1B) supports Finance partners in identifying, understanding, managing, and mitigating risks while meeting internal and regulatory requirements and expectations. We promote adherence to key risk programs through training, monitoring, testing, risk management advice, insights, and reporting. We also oversee policies and standards for financial reporting activities to help mitigate financial reporting risk and foster a culture of diversity, inclusion, and community involvement.
Role Summary
As Manager, Finance G&C (L10), you will provide strategic guidance and oversight for Finance risk management programs and controls, including financial reporting controls, through training, monitoring, testing, and reporting.
Finance G&C team members bring deep risk and control expertise gained through financial or regulatory reporting, internal or external audit, risk management, or compliance roles. This expertise enables them to assess whether Finance processes and controls are appropriately designed and operating effectively to meet internal and regulatory requirements and expectations.
Job Accountabilities:
This role is an ideal opportunity for a highly motivated, collaborative, and innovative professional with Finance expertise, strong knowledge of internal control design, assessment, or testing, and a passion for improving the risk and control environment.
In this role, you will:
- Be responsible for 1B oversight, testing and reporting of Finance's key risk programs (such as Regulatory Compliance Management), including operational risk oversight, insights and reporting such as:
- Leading development of Finance tailored communication and training relating to risk programs;
- Testing, quality control / quality assurance or assessing the effectiveness of controls designed and implemented to support the Business risk, control and issuer owners in developing effective processes to sustain and govern control activities;
- Proactively identifying, connecting the dots and considering interdependencies across risk programs, remediation plans, and controls being designed and implemented;
- Leading the review of key risk indicators, insights and development of reporting relating to these key risks for Finance.
- Lead the management and updating of Finance G&C Mandate, Standards, Policies and Procedures as required.
- Provide expert advice to the Business and stakeholders on effective control considerations for a Finance function. Ensure stakeholders are adequately trained on the relevant policy and guideline requirements, including issues management standards, and provide oversight and monitoring over compliance to policies and guidelines.
- Partner with the other teams and lines of defense to oversee the design and effectiveness of controls, monitoring and assessment or testing of compliance to policies.
- Leverage your expertise in Finance's processes risks and controls to instill an attitude of critical thinking, risk management and understanding the needs of Finance colleagues.
- Foster an effective, transparent culture of risk awareness, accountability, ethics, integrity, and conduct.
- Enable proactive, data-driven, risk-based decision making.
- Responsible to explore and deliver innovation and process improvements and build a 'learning' organization through leadership, coaching and mentorship.
- Build and cultivate an environment of innovation that leads to working smarter and simpler.
Job Requirements:
- Professional accounting and/or relevant designation (CPA, CA), would be considered a strong asset
- University degree in business, accounting or other relevant fields
- 7+ years experience in an accounting/finance/audit role with internal controls / financial controls experience
- Financial industry experience would be considered a strong asset
- Public accounting firm experience would be considered a strong asset
- Demonstrated ability to influence change through subject matter expertise in risk and controls, build effective and collaborative working relationships with cross-functional teams and business partners
- Proven ability to successfully lead, change, and manage effectively in a matrixed environment
- Demonstrated ability to efficiently and effectively assess or test the adequate design and operating effectiveness of controls, including financial reporting controls
- Effective communication skills (both written and verbal), with the ability to articulate complex subject matters simply and clearly
- Knowledge of the regulatory environment and requirements in which Finance operates (such as SEC, IFRS, OSFI, Securities regulators).
- Highly motivated individual with exceptional leadership, planning and project management skills to handle teams with functional diversity, complexity, and multiple points of internal and external contact
- Highly motivated to improve processes and leverage data and technology to increase efficiency and effectiveness
- Ability to work with a pool of experts and ensure high levels of service even when the effort crosses organizational boundaries
- Thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, managing multiple deadlines and priorities
Language Requirement (Quebec only):
Sans Objet
