Compliance Lead / Consultant Jobs

Job Summary
As a member of the Product Implementation team, we are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Regulatory and Compliance consultant to join our team. As a Compliance Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of compliance policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance with all applicable Canadian laws, regulations, and internal policies and procedures. This role requires bilingual proficiency in English and French.
Many of these projects will be directly related to compliance, software development and infrastructure initiatives for required regulatory changes. As such, this individual will serve as subject matter expert as it pertains to business specific processes, security and compliance. Experience in managing technology centric compliance deliverables with respect to scope, timelines and expectations will be critical. The ideal candidate will leverage both skills and experience to ensure project standards, information security, methodology and best practices are followed and consistently applied.
Roles And Responsibilities
The candidate should have 10 – 15 years of Retail (Personal Loans, Line of Credit, Credit Card) Channel Compliance Management experience. The candidate should have worked either as a Compliance consultation or should have had prior Personal Loans or Credit Card origination compliance experience.
Key Responsibilities

• Implement a structured approach to capturing compliance requirements and translating them into IT requirements.
• Ensure that compliance-related documentation and records are accurate and up to date.
• Work with other departments to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies and procedures.
• Conduct compliance risk assessments and identify areas of potential compliance risk.
• Drive demystification, point of view on topical subjects through contribution and authoring of thought/white papers.
• Work with the Domain Consultants/Practice Heads to develop solutions/frameworks for industry pain-points and developing trends.
• Work closely with the sales staff to understand industry compliance gaps in the product.
• Validate that the IT solution/Product meets identified compliance needs.
• Manage a team of analysts who research and enable dissemination of knowledge with the WGS compliance team.
• Analyze compliance solution options and recommend the preferred option.
• Investigate and respond to compliance-related inquiries and complaints. Interact with the SME group as well as industry leaders, partners and vendors and articulate requirements.

Requirements
Role Demands:

• Outstanding leadership and communication skills Polished verbal and written communication style. Ability to confidently build a strong rapport with project teams and the customer teams. Good networking skills to work across different multi-cultural teams towards focused goal. Comfortable in interacting with and presenting to executives and senior business leaders
• Self-Guided Attitude The ability to succeed in a professional environment where client and project direction is not always well defined. Qualified candidates will understand how to produce results when working in challenging client environments and/or new business areas.
• Excellence in strategic and analytical problem solving Excellence in Business analysis to address customer problems, quick analytical thinking, and able to have focused energy in transforming the requirements into solutions.
• Personal Drive Entrepreneurial drive with a can-do attitude, a strong desire to learn and shape your own career path. Commitment to making a positive lasting client impact.

Experience And Skill Set Required

• Excellent skills in MS Office Tools (Power Point, Word, Excel)
• Appreciate technology and business trends.
• MBA with specialization in Risk Management desired