TD Bank

Senior Manager, Governance & Control

TD Bank$115K — $163K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in strategy, transformation, governance, and delivery.
  • Ability to build strategic plans and manage complex programs.
  • Exceptional communication skills for building executive-ready materials.
  • Strong analytical skills to turn insights into actions.
  • Experience with automation and AI/ML applications.
  • Proven leadership and relationship-building capabilities.
  • Understanding of risk frameworks is an asset.

Responsibilities

  • Lead development of G&C's strategic plan based on enterprise priorities.
  • Manage fiscal planning, performance monitoring, and strategy refresh cycles.
  • Translate strategic pillars into actionable roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
  • Own the G&C OKR framework for performance alignment and accountability.
  • Define and report performance metrics for informed decision-making.
  • Lead automation and AI initiatives to modernize control environments.
  • Transform reporting into an insight-driven model for proactive decision-making.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and well-being benefits.
  • Savings and retirement programs.
  • Paid time off and banking benefits.
  • Career development opportunities.
  • Reward and recognition programs.
Full Job Description
Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:
37.5

Line of Business:
Governance & Control

Pay Details:
$115,600 - $163,200 CAD

The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description:

The Governance & Control (G&C) team serves as TD Wealth's 1B function, protecting the business, empowering our partners, and transforming how risk and controls are managed across TD Wealth. We are seeking a strategic, execution-focused, and analytically strong Senior Manager to lead Strategy & Transformation (S&T) for G&C.

The Strategy & Transformation team is central to shaping our strategic direction, driving disciplined execution, and enabling modern, technology-accelerated oversight through data, automation, and AI. You will partner across the three lines of defense and enterprise functions to build a world-class governance and control ecosystem that strengthens risk culture and delivers legendary colleague and customer experiences.

Job Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning & Priority Management
  • Lead the development of G&C's annual and multi-year strategic plan, grounded in enterprise priorities and the organization's transformation agenda.
  • Build and manage a clear operating rhythm, including fiscal planning, quarterly business reviews, performance monitoring, and strategy refresh cycles.
  • Translate strategic pillars (Deeper Relationships, Simple & Faster, Disciplined Execution) into actionable roadmaps, boulders, and measurable outcomes.
  • Partner with Finance and Workforce Strategy to support FTE planning, cost discipline, and investment prioritization.


Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) / Performance Management
  • Own the G&C OKR framework, ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities, regulatory expectations, and risk appetite.
  • Define, measure, and report performance metrics, including both shared-accountability risk indicators and G&C-owned outcomes.
  • Deliver executive-ready dashboards, insights, and narratives that support informed decision-making by VP, SVP, and executive committees.
  • Strengthen performance discipline through coaching, clarity of targets, and transparent tracking.


Automation, AI & Technology Enablement
  • Lead the identification, prioritization, and delivery of automation and AI use cases that scale oversight, modernize control environments, and reduce manual effort.
  • Build and maintain a pipeline of high-value AI opportunities across the G&C portfolio, partnering with business, data, and technology leaders to assess feasibility, readiness, and impact.
  • Support the development of G&C's responsible AI strategy, ensuring solutions align with enterprise frameworks, governance expectations, and regulatory principles.
  • Oversee development of control automation, call-monitoring AI, continuous monitoring dashboards, and eGRC platform integrations.
  • Partner with internal technology teams to drive innovation and ensure safe, responsible AI adoption.
  • Build business cases that articulate ROI, risk reduction, and colleague experience uplift.


Reporting, Insights & Executive Communications
  • Lead G&C's reporting ecosystem, transforming it into an insight-driven model that elevates risk signals and drives proactive decision-making.
  • Modernize reporting through automation, data visualization, and Power BI, reducing manual effort and increasing consistency, speed, and accuracy.
  • Deliver executive-ready materials including operational insights, risk narratives, performance scorecards, audit/regulatory updates, and quarterly results packages.
  • Improve reporting quality by prioritizing simplicity, clarity, and actionable insights.
  • Support the VP and senior leadership team with strategic presentations, town halls, LT materials, and enterprise steering committee submissions.


Risk Culture, Brand, & Stakeholder Management
  • Play a leadership role in strengthening TD Wealth's risk culture through insights, education, storytelling, and proactive partnership with 1A.
  • Lead the delivery of key colleague experience programs and events including Pulse, Reward and Recognition (R&R) and Town Halls.
  • Support talent learning & development across G&C, including capability-upskilling programs.


Job Requirements:
  • 10+ years of experience in strategy, transformation, governance and delivery.
  • Proven ability to build strategic plans, manage complex programs, and execute in fast-paced environments.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of building executive-ready materials and influencing senior leaders.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to turn insights into decisions and actions.
  • Experience with automation, AI/ML applications, or digitization programs (business or technical side).
  • Strong people leadership, coaching, and relationship-building capabilities.
  • Understanding of risk frameworks (e.g., 3LoD, regulatory expectations, audit, controls) is an asset.
  • Ability to manage shared accountability metrics and drive alignment across multiple stakeholders.


Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Additional Information:
We're delighted that you're considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we're committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development

If you're interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You'll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.

If you're passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you've got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
We'll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you'd like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):
Sans Objet

About TD Bank

TD Securities offers a range of advisory and capital market services to its clients. The company's range of services includes research, investment banking, capital markets, and global transaction banking. Research consists of commodity and equity research. Investment banking consists of mergers, acquisitions, industry expertise, and credit origination. Global transaction banking consists of trade finance, cash management, and correspondent banking. TD Securities was founded in 1855 and is based in Ontario.

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