Senior Manager, Risk Transformation

EQ Bank | Equitable Bank

$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in consulting, risk management, or regulatory compliance
  • Knowledge of Canadian regulatory frameworks, especially OSFI standards
  • Experience engaging with senior leadership and regulatory stakeholders
  • Ability to create clear, concise executive-level documentation
  • Understanding of risk management and governance structures
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Analytical mindset with critical-thinking skills

Responsibilities

  • Execute enterprise risk initiatives through structured problem diagnosis and solutions
  • Develop executive outputs including analysis and presentations for decision-making
  • Coordinate ambiguous problem sets and manage delivery dependencies
  • Translate priorities into structured execution plans for risk transformation
  • Support stakeholder engagement and change management efforts in Risk and Compliance
  • Interface with business partners to advance transformation objectives
  • Prepare analysis and materials to support senior leadership decision-making

Benefits

  • Competitive discretionary bonus
  • Market-leading RRSP match program
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
  • Employee Share Purchase Plan
  • Maternity/Parental top-up
  • Generous vacation policy and personal days
  • Professional development and comprehensive career development program
  • Hybrid work model with office space in Toronto
Full Job Description
The Work

The Senior Manager, Risk Transformation is a senior contributor responsible for supporting the execution of enterprise-wide risk priorities across transformation, governance, regulatory engagement, and strategy. The role delivers outcomes aligned with Risk & Compliance senior leadership, including execution of priority regulatory and risk change initiatives, enterprise transformation work, and leadership-directed special initiatives. The role also provides coordination and execution support across Risk and Compliance leadership.

Delivery

  • Execute against targeted delivery workstreams across enterprise risk initiatives, focusing on problem diagnosis, solution structuring, and execution.
  • Produce decision-ready executive outputs by developing analysis, presentations, briefing materials, and delivery artefacts that synthesize inputs across Risk, Finance, Technology, and the Business.
  • Operate as an execution resource within delivery programs, structuring ambiguous problem sets, managing dependencies, and resolving delivery issues through coordination and influence.
  • Advance senior-directed priorities with minimal supervision, coordinating inputs and progressing defined delivery activities in support of executive and regulatory engagement.


Transformation Enablement

  • Support enterprise risk transformation initiatives by translating defined priorities into structured execution plans and delivery activities, in partnership with the Senior Director.
  • Enable change management activities across Risk and Compliance by supporting stakeholder engagement, adoption planning, communications, and execution tracking.
  • Advance leadership-directed transformation objectives within the Risk organization by interfacing with business and functional partners, connecting Risk, Business, and delivery teams.


Governance & Regulatory Coordination

  • Support coordination of regulatory engagement activities, including OSFI meetings, regulatory correspondence, and cross-functional preparation.
  • Act as an integration point across regulatory, audit, and governance activities, ensuring consistency of messaging, documentation, and positioning.
  • Maintain and evolve governance materials, dashboards, and reporting frameworks to support transparency, accountability, and audit readiness.


Leadership Initiatives

  • Support time-bound, leadership-directed initiatives by structuring workplans, coordinating inputs, and progressing defined activities to completion.
  • Provide targeted execution support on priority topics, preparing analysis and materials to support senior Risk leadership decision-making.


Portfolio Enablement

  • Support portfolio-level risk initiatives by developing analysis and materials that provide visibility into priorities, dependencies, and delivery status across the Risk transformation portfolio.
  • Maintain and enhance portfolio reporting and dashboards to support senior leadership oversight, prioritization, and informed decision-making.
  • Provide analytical support on risk and financial dimensions of initiatives, including tracking impacts, trade-offs, and resource considerations to support effective execution.


Let's Talk About You!

  • 6+ years of progressive experience in consulting, risk management, enterprise enablement, regulatory compliance, or transformation roles within financial services, preferably in a regulated banking environment.
  • Strong understanding of Canadian regulatory frameworks and expectations (e.g., OSFI E-23, E-21, CAR Chapters 4 & 5, B-13, B-10), with experience supporting regulatory engagement, reviews, or audits.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively across senior leadership levels, including engagement with executives and regulatory stakeholders.
  • Proven capability to synthesize complex information and translate it into clear, concise, executive-level materials suitable for governance and decision-making.
  • Sound understanding of risk management disciplines, governance structures, and enterprise change environments, including how these operate in practice.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience authoring executive documentation, governance materials, and briefing content.
  • High degree of organizational and stakeholder acumen, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and drive alignment through influence rather than formal authority.
  • Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to identify themes, gaps, and risks across concurrent initiatives.


What we offer [For full-time permanent roles]

Competitive discretionary bonus

Market leading RRSP match program

🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits

📝 Employee Share Purchase Plan

Maternity/Parental top-up while you care for your little one

Generous vacation policy and personal days

Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues

Professional development and comprehensive Career Development program

A fulfilling opportunity to join one of the top FinTechs and help create a new kind of banking experience

The incumbent will be working hybrid and in office time will be spent working from EQ Bank's additional office space located at 2200-25 Ontario Street, Toronto, ON.

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