Senior Consultant - Governance, Risk & Compliance Services (Financial Services)

at  KPMG

Overview:
At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.
Our Governance, Risk and Compliance Services (GRCS) professionals under Advisory Risk Services provide a range of assurance and advisory services to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of internal audit functions, enterprise risk management programs, third-party relationships, regulatory compliance, governance and sustainability initiatives. We analyze and assess an organization’s business strategies and related business processes and systems to help management understand and address business objectives, requirements, risks, controls, and improvement opportunities. Our professionals bring both deep technical and industry experience, allowing clients to strengthen their key governance, risk management and compliance efforts while optimizing business performance.
The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the planning, execution and reporting of various governance, risk management and control engagements with our Financial Services clients.

What you will do:

• Interview clients and understand their current compliance, risk management and control programs, and document the current state and evaluate against past experiences and insights into leading practices
• Identify key risk management, compliance and control mechanisms, and develop programs to test and evaluate these
• Independently conduct testing activities, and clearly document testing efforts and results
• Draft reports to summarize the results of testing and evaluation efforts
• Mentor, drive and review quality of work prepared by other team members
• Support Managers in managing the project timelines, quality, budget as well as the client relationship
• Deliver multiple simultaneous client engagements of varying size, scope and complexity
• Engage with cross functional engagement teams comprised of diverse backgrounds and skill sets
• Assist with business development efforts such as proposals, marketing materials, internal and external presentations

What you bring to this role:

• 3 to 5 years of internal controls, compliance, internal audit or risk management experience across operational, compliance or reporting domains
• Expertise in Financial Services (i.e. banking, wealth/asset management, insurance, fintech, etc.)
• Strong understanding of the Canadian Financial Sector regulatory landscape (e.g. OSFI, FINTRAC, CIRO, FSRA)
• Risk management, controls, internal audit related designation
• Experience in effectively contributing to a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to adapt methodologies and techniques to unique circumstances
• Self-motivated and is willing to ask probing questions to uncover client opportunities

What you will do:

• Interview clients and understand their current compliance, risk management and control programs, and document the current state and evaluate against past experiences and insights into leading practices
• Identify key risk management, compliance and control mechanisms, and develop programs to test and evaluate these
• Independently conduct testing activities, and clearly document testing efforts and results
• Draft reports to summarize the results of testing and evaluation efforts
• Mentor, drive and review quality of work prepared by other team members
• Support Managers in managing the project timelines, quality, budget as well as the client relationship
• Deliver multiple simultaneous client engagements of varying size, scope and complexity
• Engage with cross functional engagement teams comprised of diverse backgrounds and skill sets
• Assist with business development efforts such as proposals, marketing materials, internal and external presentation

What you bring to this role:

• 3 to 5 years of internal controls, compliance, internal audit or risk management experience across operational, compliance or reporting domains
• Expertise in Financial Services (i.e. banking, wealth/asset management, insurance, fintech, etc.)
• Strong understanding of the Canadian Financial Sector regulatory landscape (e.g. OSFI, FINTRAC, CIRO, FSRA)
• Risk management, controls, internal audit related designation
• Experience in effectively contributing to a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to adapt methodologies and techniques to unique circumstances
• Self-motivated and is willing to ask probing questions to uncover client opportunitie