Bank of Montreal

Senior Manager, Trade Compliance

Bank of Montreal$105K — $215K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 9+ years in Compliance, Trade Surveillance, Market Risk, or related fields.
  • Understanding trading products, markets, and operations.
  • Familiarity with front-to-back trade flows in multiple areas like Fixed Income and FX.
  • Experience in managing regulatory audits and compliance reviews.
  • Knowledgeable in frameworks like the Volcker Rule and SOX requirements.
  • Advanced communication and analytical skills.
  • Ability to handle ambiguity and make data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead trade surveillance and compliance governance for Treasury's trading activities.
  • Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and internal policies.
  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive compliance framework.
  • Monitor regulatory developments and identify compliance gaps.
  • Act as liaison during audits and regulatory examinations.
  • Execute enterprise-wide compliance strategies and governance frameworks.
  • Recommend strategic enhancements to compliance and control effectiveness.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage
  • Tuition reimbursement programs
  • Life and accident insurance options
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Performance and discretionary bonuses
Full Job Description

Application Deadline:

10/01/2026

Address:

100 King Street West

Job Family Group:

Finance & Accounting

Leads the oversight, execution, and continuous enhancement of the Bank's trade surveillance, compliance governance, and regulatory control framework across Treasury's trading-related activities.

Responsible for ensuring adherence to applicable regulatory requirements, internal policies, supervisory expectations, and enterprise compliance programs. Acts as a central point of coordination for audits, regulatory examinations, compliance reviews, control testing, issue remediation, document management, and governance reporting.

Develops and maintains a sustainable compliance framework that identifies, assesses, monitors, escalates, and remediates compliance and conduct risks associated with trading activities and supporting operations.

Maintains knowledge of regulatory requirements and developments, monitors risk, and identifies and corrects possible gaps and weaknesses. Identifies and recommends actions based on market trends and regulatory developments.

Leads regulatory and compliance change initiatives of varying scope and complexity.

Develops implementation plans for new regulatory requirements and policy changes.

  • Serves as the primary liaison with Compliance, Internal Audit, Operational Risk, Legal, Regulators, and senior management stakeholders.
  • Represents the business during regulatory examinations, audit reviews, and compliance assessments.
  • Leads execution of enterprise-wide compliance and surveillance strategies.
  • Develops and implements sustainable governance and control frameworks supporting trading activities.
  • Recommends strategic priorities to strengthen regulatory compliance and control effectiveness.
  • Leads remediation programs arising from audits, regulatory reviews, compliance assessments, or identified control deficiencies.
  • Identifies emerging regulatory developments, enforcement trends, and industry practices; recommends enhancements to governance frameworks and surveillance programs.
  • Acts as a subject matter expert on relevant regulations and policies.
  • May network with industry contacts to gain competitive insights and best practices.
  • Supports development of corporate standards, operating principles, and guidelines in conjunction with market risk, business, and finance stakeholders.
  • Monitors market and regulatory developments to assess impacts to strategies, programs, and plans.
  • Qualifications:

  • Typically 9+ years of experience in Compliance, Trade Surveillance, Market Risk, Trade Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Internal Audit, or Capital Markets Controls.
  • Deep understanding of trading products, markets, lifecycle processing, and trading operations.
  • Strong working knowledge of front-to-back trade flows across Treasury, Capital Markets, Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives, Securities Financing, and Liquidity Management activities.
  • Experience managing regulatory examinations, internal audits, compliance reviews, and remediation programs.
  • Experience with surveillance systems, exception management processes, and conduct-risk monitoring frameworks.
  • Strong knowledge of Volcker Rule, SOX, Regulatory governance framework, risk & control framework, market conduct requirements, trading supervision obligations.
  • Post secondary Accounting, Finance, Mathematics or related degree.
  • Finance / business experience with risk management and working knowledge of derivatives preferred.
  • Exposure to one or more of the following: risk management, financial market instruments, trading and derivative operations, risk systems, hedge accounting, risk management related to asset liability / treasury.
  • Seasoned professional with a combination of education, experience and industry knowledge.
  • Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth / Expert.
  • Analytical and problem solving skills - In-depth / Expert.
  • Influence skills - In-depth / Expert.
  • Collaboration & team skills; with a focus on cross-group collaboration - In-depth / Expert.
  • Able to manage ambiguity.
  • Data driven decision making - In-depth / Expert.

Salary:

$105,000.00 - $215,000.00

Pay Type:

Salaried

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: 

About Bank of Montreal

The Bank of Montreal is a Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services company. It provides a wide range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management, and investment banking products and services. The bank had revenues of CAD 23.6 billion in 2020.
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