It Digital Governance Specialist

FSRA is guided by our vision of financial safety, fairness and choice for Ontarians. We achieve this by public service through dynamic, principles-based and outcomes-focused regulation. FSRA is committed to attracting and retaining exceptional people who bring energy, expertise, and experience. This includes providing a comprehensive total rewards package that looks beyond compensation and takes into consideration those things that are important to employees:

• Competitive benefits plan, including a Defined Benefit pension plan
• Culture of giving back to our communities through charitable activities
• Promoting wellness and fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel valued and respected
• Flexibility with a hybrid work model in an office designed for collaboration
• High employee engagement scores with opportunity for growth, learning and development

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PURPOSE OF POSITION

Responsible for the implementation, support and communication of Information Technology (IT) digital governance practice and related workflow automation solutions that digitize the elements of information and technology governance practice to effectively support overall FSRA’s business objectives and meet obligations with respect to IT operational risk, compliance risk, strategic risk, and data privacy risk.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operationalizes key risks and control metrics to measure and enable continuous monitoring of IT governance and compliance requirements, drives test automation and continuous learning, adopts DevOps methodology and Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• Discovers, researches and utilizes technologies and tools like machine learning, and AI to improve efficiency, reduce governance burden, and increase compliance and adoption.
• Integrates IT policies, standards, and metrics into modern technologies to measure and enable continuous improvement, sets and evolves the governance standards and compliance pipeline and creates an agile and data-driven culture and processes.
• Solicit feedbacks from IT staff / management and draft responses to internal / external audit findings.
• Supports the Business Management Office to operationalize and evolve IT digital governance practice, leverage innovative technologies that support compliance with regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and make governance a seamless part of the business.
• Proactively monitors trends and developments in new emerging technologies, FinTech, RegTech, SupTech, AI & other analytics (tools and techniques), their applications in financial services sector and relevant risk management practices to continuously improve FSRA technologies and provide customers with more powerful, efficient and integrated technology solutions.
• Supports IT department in continuous process improvements and management of special projects.
• Maintains and evolves Information Technology policies and standards catalog as well as IT Risk register.
• Identifies, adopts, implements, and evolves information and technology governance and compliance requirements that are crucial in the realization of digital governance practice across FSRA to support overall business objectives, create value and minimize risks for business.
• Fosters new approach to achieving digital governance and quality control standards by enabling business with modern technology, insights, and automation to fuel outcome-based governance, anticipate issues, eliminate duplication, free up resources, and identify areas of potential performance improvement.
• Serves as the IT liaison with business functions and provides support on FSRA internal and external audit engagements including risk management activities at quarterly and annual attestations.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• 3 – 5 years demonstrated experience in new modern Governance, Risk and Controls platforms, emerging technologies, risk management and/or regulatory compliance practices and/or methodologies to develop Information Technology standards, processes, and related workflow automation solutions within a digital environment.
• Degree/diploma in Information Technology, Business Management, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience with IT Process Automation tools to generate automatic compliance controls as part of larger workflows and perform data collection and reporting regularly.
• Experience with reporting or analytical software (Tableau/ Power BI / BOBJ / Azure etc.)
• Demonstrated experience in scoping technology needs, developing and supporting digital solutions.
• Experience in IT Governance, Cloud Governance, and Data Governance practice, DevOps environment and digital product delivery.
• Experience with one or more RPA technologies.

Knowledge And Skills

• Previous web programming and / or software development skills (an asset)
• Capability of working independently
• Strong knowledge of risks and controls related to IT platforms, operating systems, network services and business applications
• Ability to manage and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong understanding of databases and experience in reading/writing SQL statements with complexity is highly desired.
• Strong problem-solving skills with demonstrated creative, innovative, and strategic thinking.
• Excellent interpersonal and management skills
• Quantitative techniques including Artificial Intelligence, Robotics Process Automation, and other analytical development space (data visualization, data pipelining, etc.)
• Proven skills in developing and managing complex relationships with stakeholders.
• Strong familiarity with governance and controls frameworks, certifications and related standards and frameworks: Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), ISO 27001, Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2, COBIT and COSO

Job Posting End Date:

08/07/2023

Job postings close at 11:59pm on the date noted.

Compensation Grade:

Grade 223-OPSEU ADM

Compensation Range:

$1,377.69

$1,760.77

Bargaining Unit:

OPSEU

Job Code:

Job Code: 17158

Employment Type:

Regular

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

36.25

FSRA is committed to ensuring equity in employment. Our goal is to create a diverse, inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to ensure our services and communications are accessible to all individuals. Accommodation is available under the Ontario Human Rights Code.

NOTE: ONLY QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONSIDERED