Sun Life compliance director overseeing CIRO trade supervision and risk - based monitoring across mutual fund and securities businesses. Leading regulatory oversight, transformation, reporting, and a high - performing compliance team.
About the role
- Sun Life AVP leading strategic programs, innovation, insights and regulatory operations. Integrating governance, modernization, analytics and change across Canadian wealth and insurance businesses.
Responsibilities
- Provide executive leadership across Strategic Initiatives & Innovation, Data & Insights, Registration & Licensing, and Governance Programs & Initiatives
- Integrate regulatory execution, governance and control frameworks, modernization, portfolio delivery and business priorities through a common strategy, roadmap and operating model
- Set priorities, allocate resources and lead the Director team
- Ensure initiatives progress from concept through adoption and sustainable ownership
- Set and execute an integrated multi-year strategy and roadmap aligned to organizational priorities, regulatory obligations, business outcomes and investment capacity
- Establish portfolio governance for intake, prioritization, sequencing, benefits realization, executive reporting and transition to business ownership
- Advise senior leaders on outcomes, trade-offs, dependencies, risks, capability gaps and decisions or escalations
- Build enterprise partnerships and lead portfolio-level change through direction, stakeholder engagement, communication, training, adoption and accountability
- Strengthen regulatory defensibility and first-line ownership through governance, control and supervision capabilities
- Lead regulatory change execution from horizon scanning and impact assessment through requirements, implementation, adoption and sustainable compliance evidence
- Oversee attestations, audit and regulatory findings, remediation commitments and management action plans
- Ensure field leaders, advisors and business partners receive guidance, communications and training
- Develop and execute modernization across process and operating-model redesign, technology, analytics, automation, AI and GenAI-enabled capabilities
- Provide executive oversight of registration and licensing operations
- Set direction for analytics, dashboards and performance measures
- Sponsor discovery through scaling, using evidence-based criteria to stop, iterate or expand solutions
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of Canadian wealth and insurance distribution, securities and insurance regulatory requirements, dealer obligations and first-line supervisory expectations
- Experience operating in a federally regulated financial institution, ideally within an OSFI-regulated environment and across a three-lines-of-defence model
- Demonstrated success leading leaders and multidisciplinary teams through complex operational, regulatory and organizational change
- Proven ability to translate regulatory change, audit findings, control gaps and business risks into practical operating-model, process, technology and governance solutions
- Advanced portfolio-management capability, including prioritization, governance, benefits realization, resource planning and executive reporting
- Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking, stakeholder influence, executive communication and ability to challenge constructively in a complex matrixed organization
- Significant progressive leadership experience (10 years+) in financial services, ideally spanning wealth, insurance, governance, regulatory operations, compliance, risk, transformation or technology-enabled change
Benefits
- Incentive plans with discretionary payments subject to individual and company performance
- Hybrid work with flexibility to work from the office and virtually based on business, Client and employee needs
- Accommodation support for persons with disabilities
- Alternative-format job postings available upon request
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