Sia Partners

Sia Partners

Senior Consultant - Risk and Compliance

Toronto, ON, Canada · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 63 days ago
Data ScienceComplianceProject ManagementExcelLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoringPublic Speaking

About the role

  • We're optimists for change and we help clients initiate, navigate and benefit from transformation.

Responsibilities

  • Regulatory Obligations Management: Analyze, interpret, and document legal and regulatory requirements to identify, map, and update obligations within the client's Regulatory Compliance Management (RCM) library
  • Control Design & Implementation: Advise on, design, and implement robust operational controls and compliance frameworks to ensure adherence to regulations
  • Risk Assessment & Testing: Lead RCSA (Risk and Control Self-Assessments) initiatives, conduct thematic reviews, and perform testing of controls to identify compliance deficiencies and operational gaps
  • Project Leadership: Manage project workstreams, including timelines, budgets, and deliverable quality, while coaching junior staff.
  • Regulatory Analysis & Strategy: Assess and interpret emerging regulatory trends, supervisory expectations, and enforcement actions to develop compliance strategies
  • Compliance Best Practices: Understand, develop and maintain best practices for regulatory compliance
  • Innovative Problem Solving: Independently identify and analyze complex business problems and proactively develop innovative and sustainable solutions using consulting frameworks and other problem-solving tools
  • Data-Driven Insight & Communication: Distill complex information into clear problem statements, independently develop and implement data driven solutions, and synthesize insights into compelling presentations and recommendations for senior leadership
  • Risk & Compliance Transformation Support: Ability to support transformational client engagements across both first line functions (Controls design, control testing) and second line functions (operational risk, compliance)
  • Manage project workstreams, including timelines, budgets, and deliverable quality, while coaching junior staff.

Requirements

  • Ability to read laws, regulations and rules to understand applicability of obligations for client context and assist with mapping obligations to controls

Nice to have

  • 3-5 years of experience in regulatory compliance and operational risk management, preferably within a consulting firm or financial institution.
  • Deep understanding of North American regulatory landscape (e.g. OSFI, FINRA, OCC, CIRO).
  • Experience in key areas such as Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk, and Regulatory Compliance and / or a desire to further expand knowledge and skills across diverse domains
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Law, Business, or Risk Management
  • CPA, CIA, CISA, or CAMS certification preferred.
  • Strong, concise communication skills for interacting with senior management and presenting complex regulatory issues
  • Experience with AI governance, assess AI use cases and agentic solutions

Skills

  • Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group.
  • Today our strategy and management capabilities are augmented by data science, enhanced by creativity and driven by responsibility.
  • Our expertise delivers results.
  • Our optimism transforms outcomes.
  • Strategy & Management Consulting
  • These are the six core values that guide all our actions.

Benefits

  • Entrepreneurial journey
  • Continuous learning & development opportunities
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs with an ever-growing list of global affinity initiatives

Equal opportunity

  • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
  • Sia is an equal opportunity employer.

This listing is sourced directly from Sia Partners's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.