AVP Global Compliance Testing

at  Manulife

Manulife is seeking an experienced professional to manage the Global Testing program and team. Supporting the legal entity and segment CCO’s the individual will be responsible for running the program to build on our existing model and work closely with other teams within Regulatory Assurance and Governance.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in Legal, Finance or a related field
• 10 years + of legal/compliance/audit or similar experience, with a good understanding of financial markets, products, services, and processes
• CPA, CIA or a related designation preferred
• Confidence, maturity, and credibility to deliver and present to Senior Executive leadership and business unit management teams
• Ability to foster and build relationships, engage, and influence others, work with diverse subject matter experts. Flexible and adaptable when dealing with change with a strong awareness and understanding of cultural diversity.
• High level of self-motivation and keen sense of ’owning’ and delivering on project deliverables
• Leadership experience working for a global financial institution

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge of the Financial Services Industry, with a specific focus on Testing
• Demonstrable understanding of investment instruments and a general knowledge of compliance concepts
• Accuracy and high attention to detail – clear and precise report writing skills
• Stakeholder Management – communicates complex and ambiguous topics with clarity and ease; able to interface with different stakeholders at all levels; skilled in both oral and written communication.
• Problem solver and decision maker – effectively leverage internal resource and external industry / market insights to assimilate, synthesize, and recommend solutions for complex challenges; takes ownership to make informed and timely decisions and own implementation of solutions.
• Significant experience in Regulatory/Compliance Testing
• Strong understanding of control frameworks, testing methodologies, and risk concepts (inherent, residual, appetite, etc.)
• Experience leading and developing team members
• Proven success building and implementing testing programs to evaluate the design and adequacy and effectiveness of key controls
• Self-motivated with strong collaboration and influencing skills
• Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple tasks and competing priorities, meet deadlines, and adapt

• Independently develop and maintain a risk-based control testing program to review and challenge the design adequacy and effectiveness of key regulations / controls across the company
• Develop and implement sound sampling methodologies and requirements to be deployed by testers across the company
• Establish an automated control validation strategy to efficiently expand coverage of monitoring.
• Establish the strategic plan for the design and development of the testing group and the timely execution of testing and assurance to further strengthen the control environment.
• Prepare and deliver clear, concise, and actionable reporting to senior leadership and governance committees.
• Oversee a global team responsible for executing the risk-based testing program.
• Proactively identify and implement testing automation and analytics where appropriate.
• Excellent critical and creative thinking, decision-making and innovative problem-solving skills