Manager, TDS Governance and Control

Manager II, Governance & Control

Preferred Qualifications :

The TDS Governance and Control team is a first line of defense team responsible for providing risk and compliance advice and oversight to ensure our TDS business partners have adequately considered, managed, and mitigated risks in day-to-day activities, operations, products and services, and are operating within risk appetite in compliance with regulatory requirements, Bank policies and risk appetite.

Members of TDS Governance & Control require sufficient expertise to review and assess whether the Business is adhering to internal (risk management, oversight function and audit) and regulatory requirements, requests, and expectations.

Job Description

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Governance and Control, the Manager supports Change Governance Programs across TD Securities (Globally), ensuring a strategic, risk-based approach for alignment with Enterprise Change Governance Standards.

The position has a high level of direct interaction with Executive Sponsors, Change Delivery Teams, and Risk and Control partners. This position will require an individual who can 'think outside of the box' in terms of developing, communicating, sharing, implementing and improving project methodology and governance processes, controls and tools.

Job Accountabilities

• Partner with the Business, Risk and Change Delivery to approve Change Risk Assessments.
• Partner with the Business, Risk and Change Delivery to manage the New Business and Product Approval process.
• Build and maintain relationships with 1st and 2nd line partners as well as other key stakeholders to ensure TDS changes and associated risks are understood
• Provide coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business executives within the area of Change Governance.
• Contribute to team development by sharing knowledge and experiences, leveraging best practices.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of existing and emerging regulatory requirements, inherent risks, Compliance Policies and Standards, to ensure program alignment and provide tailored advice and strategic counsel to TDS partners.
• Foster an effective, transparent culture of risk awareness, accountability, ethics, integrity, and conduct.
• Evaluate business strategy and activities against risk appetite and provide management and stakeholders with sufficient and timely insight into the business and industry landscape.
• Partner with Business to ensure risks are adequately identified, assessed, and develop risk mitigation strategies to manage current and emerging risk exposures across all risk categories and all business areas.
• Accountability to establish, deliver and support governance processes across TD Securities.
• Support the Business in the design, implementation, and sustainment of controls within key processes and procedures.
• In partnership with the 2nd line and oversight functions, provide advice and facilitate discussions with management and stakeholders on relevant internal and external events and collaborate to expediently resolve incidents, identify, and track issues to remediation and develop processes to create timely, complete, and accurate reporting.
• Enable initiative-taking, data-driven, risk-based decision making.
• Partner with Business to proactively prepare for internal / regulatory requests, testing engagements, exams, and reviews.
• Ability to influence change and develop strong interpersonal relationships with the business, team members and key partners.
• Ensuring a coordinated approach with other business areas, the broader organization and enterprise control functions
• Strategic partner to leadership team on the management of the function, with deep industry, external / internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and identifying operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management / enterprise areas.
• You are responsible to explore and deliver leading edge innovation, process improvements, and build a 'learning' organization through leadership, coaching and mentorship.
• Build and cultivate an environment of innovation that leads to working smarter and simpler.
• Instill an attitude of critical thinking, risk management and understanding the needs of TD Securities colleagues.
• Responsible for the provision of a challenging and stimulating environment, primarily through delivering quality leadership and empowering the team with the skills, tools, and resources to follow through with their ideas.

Job Requirements

Additional Information

The Manager II, Governance & Control leads and manages a governance and control team, overseeing diverse functions in an area of moderate risk, complexity or scope usually involving short to medium-term planning. This role ensures an integrated approach with other business governance and control areas, the broader organization, and enterprise control functions.

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