Manager, Risk and Audit

Sun Life Financial, Inc.

$80K — $128K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in fraud risk management or related field
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
  • Proficient in reporting frameworks and governance processes
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication abilities
  • Experience in stakeholder engagement and influence
  • Knowledge of fraud operations and risk management practices

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and improvement of fraud risk reporting
  • Maintain reporting inventory and governance framework
  • Produce executive dashboards and performance metrics
  • Manage reporting requests and stakeholder expectations
  • Facilitate resolution of reporting enhancement requests
  • Establish data dictionaries and metric definitions
  • Analyze fraud trends and operational performance
  • Translate complex data into concise executive reporting

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model for flexibility
  • Engagement in various incentive plans based on performance
  • Reliability Security Clearance required for position
  • Opportunity to work with advanced data analytics and visualization tools
  • Professional growth within a critical fraud management team
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Location: hybrid

Fraud Risk Management (FRM) plays a critical role in protecting Sun Life, its clients, and advisors, from financial crime and fraud-related threats. The FRM Reporting & Insights team serves as the central source of fraud management reporting, analytics, and data-driven insights, providing leadership with a clear understanding of fraud trends, emerging risks, operational performance, and program effectiveness.

As Manager, Fraud Reporting & Insights, you will act as a strategic partner to Fraud leadership and business stakeholders by transforming complex case-level data from multiple source systems into meaningful reporting and actionable insights.

Working across FRM, Technology, Analytics, and business partners, you will lead the evolution of reporting capabilities, data strategy and governance practices, and management information frameworks, using analytical storytelling to deliver a single, trusted view of fraud performance and risk across Sun Life Canada.

What will you do?

  • Lead the development, production, and continuous improvement of fraud risk management reporting and management information across the organization.


  • Maintain reporting inventory and reporting governance framework, ensuring reporting remains relevant, accurate, and aligned to business needs.


  • Produce and oversee recurring fraud reporting, executive dashboards, scorecards, and performance metrics for senior leadership and key stakeholders.


  • Act as the primary triage and coordination point for reporting requests, managing priorities, stakeholder expectations, and delivery timelines.


  • Track, prioritize, and facilitate resolution of open reporting enhancement requests, ensuring alignment with FRM strategic objectives.


  • Establish and maintain data dictionaries, metric definitions, and reporting standards to support a single source of truth across fraud risk management.


  • Analyze fraud trends, operational performance indicators, emerging risks, and business impacts to identify meaningful insights and opportunities for action.


  • Translate detailed fraud case activity and operational data into concise, executive-level reporting and recommendations that support decision making.


  • Support fraud governance forums, leadership discussions, reporting reviews, and executive package development through analysis, commentary, and presentation materials.


  • Partner with Technology, Data, and Business teams to improve data quality, reporting automation, and overall reporting maturity.


What do you need to succeed?

  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to identify patterns, trends, and emerging risks within complex datasets.


  • Ability to translate technical information and detailed operational data into clear, meaningful business insights for diverse audiences.


  • Strong reporting and data storytelling capabilities, including development of executive-level dashboards, presentations, and management reporting.


  • Experience developing reporting frameworks, performance metrics, governance processes, and operational reporting standards.


  • Strong partnership, networking, and influencing skills with the ability to work effectively across multiple stakeholder groups.


  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including experience presenting findings and recommendations to senior leaders.


  • Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize and balance concurrent reporting, analytical, and business support activities in a fast-paced environment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality outcomes.


Assets:

  • Experience in the Canadian financial services industry within Fraud Risk Management, Financial Crime, Risk Management, Compliance, Operations, or a related discipline.


  • Experience developing operational reporting, executive dashboards, scorecards, or management information programs.


  • Knowledge of fraud operations, fraud typologies, fraud controls, and fraud risk management practices.


  • Experience working with reporting and analytics tools, data visualization platforms, and business intelligence solutions.


  • Strong data analysis and interpretation skills, including the ability to synthesize information from multiple source systems.


  • Experience driving reporting automation, process optimization, and reporting improvements.


  • Background in stakeholder engagement, business enablement, or advisory functions.


Requirement: This role requires Reliability Security Clearance. In addition to a law enforcement inquiry and a credit check, as part of your application, the Government of Canada will ask if you lived or travelled outside of Canada for 6-consecutive months during the last 5 years, and you must account for all activities during this time.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

Salary Range:
80,000/80 000 - 128,000/128 000

Job Category:
Risk Management

Posting End Date:
26/08/2026

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