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Head, Operational Risk and Regulatory Compliance Management

Sun Life Financial

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Job Description:

Job purpose 

The Operational Risk Officer (ORO) and Regulatory Compliance Management Coordinator (RCMC) will support the business head in identifying, measuring, managing, monitoring, and reporting operational risks of the business unit, including compliance related risks. The ORO will partner with Management as well as Second Line of Defense Risk and Compliance stakeholders to assess operational risks, enhance control frameworks, provide oversight on risk and compliance policy requirements, and ultimately enable the business to evolve while maintaining risk within appetite. The ORO will perform such other functions as required under the Operational Risk Management Framework and Compliance Risk Management Framework and their relevant operating guidelines

The ORO’s scope will cover SLF Philippines’ businesses and functions, with the exception of Operations, IT and the Transformation Office, SLGFI and SLAMCI. Additionally, the RCMC covers all SLF Philippines’ businesses and functions.

Major accountabilities

  • Execute required risk & compliance assessments with a risk-based approach to gap identification and risk mitigation.
  • Work with functional teams within the business unit to manage evolving risk processes to ensure that appropriate identification, evaluation, reporting and escalation of risk exposures is in place.
  • Ensure BU awareness, understanding & compliance of applicable enterprise risk and compliance policies.
  • Developing and conducting risk and compliance related training and consultation as required to build a risk and compliance culture at Sun Life. This includes supporting business group wide awareness training as well as detailed guideline training within the business areas, if required.
  • Assess risk and control effectiveness within the business unit and identify and prioritize opportunities to improve risk management by conducting periodic independent testing/monitoring of the effectiveness of key process controls.
  • Oversee the roll-out of new/changed risk and compliance requirements and also support internal clients in designing solutions that meet risk and business objectives
  • Ensure that regulatory and internal requirements are implemented, and controls are in place to ensure compliance with requirements, including assisting in educating the business unit on new policies, guidelines, and regulatory requirements and to provide inputs on potential impact to their operations.
  • Escalate operational risk events of the business unit to BU Risk Management following Operational Risk Event Guidelines. Monitor progress and drive completion of action plans to mitigate identified gaps on incidents.
  • Provide support to their Business Policy Owners on policy compliance attestations requested by Risk and Compliance.
  • Prepare periodic risk and compliance reports for Management, Risk and Compliance via the Monthly Business Review of the business unit and ensure timely and accurate responses to internal and external queries.
  • Support reviews conducted by Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance as well as external auditors and regulators.
  • Execute the Regulatory Compliance Management (RCM) program for the assigned BU/Business Functional Group (BFG)/Corporate Functional Areas (CFAs), e.g., issue management and regulatory change management
  • Execute and ensure alignment of RCM practices with Sun Life’s Enterprise RCM framework, manuals and methodologies
  • Usage of Archer within their BU/BFG/CFAs as the “Book of Record” for all elements of Sun Life’s RCM program (e.g., inventory of regulations, risk assessments, key controls, monitoring and testing programs, etc.)
  • Learn and enable an appropriate level of compliance and risk knowledge within their BU/BFG/CFAs in order to apply consistency and standardization to the identification, documentation, management and reporting of regulatory compliance risks
  • Ensure the accuracy and completeness of content in Archer to facilitate RCM reporting to business unit leadership on key RCM elements, coordinating with other employees within the BU, and others in the CFAs, as required (e.g., regulatory risk status, issues, regulatory developments, etc.)
  • Partner with Compliance and the business with respect to supporting RCM Transformation and implementing any relevant activities as directed by SLF Philippines leadership

Specialized knowledge

  • Knowledge and experience on operational risk management and laws and regulations governing financial institutions, particularly on asset management, insurance, and banking operations.
  • Ability to understand laws, regulations, and businesses processes, and ability to assess the corresponding risks and impact to the business
  • Expertise in business and governance processes in specialized areas i.e. Operations, IT, Project Management [for updating]
  • Strong leadership and influencing capabilities, ability to effectively foster and manage relationships across the organization to deliver against objectives.
  • Demonstrated ability to make sound recommendations to senior leaders and influence business decisions based on thorough analysis, business knowledge and risk consulting expertise.

Problem solving

  • Ability to think strategically and execute tactically.
  • Strong and flexible problem-solving capabilities, willing to challenge the ‘status quo’ and build innovative control solutions.

Education and experience

The candidate should have the following:

a 4-year university degree; at least 3 to 5 years management/ technical experience plus 3 years of operational risk management (preferred).

Experience in internal audit, risk and compliance is an advantage. Experience in risk management at life insurance, mutual funds, banks or financial services industry is also a plus.

Communication scope

  • Confident verbal and written communication skills, experience presenting sensitive matters to senior management and should be able to deal with staff from various levels in the organization.
  • Ability to distill complex requirements without oversimplifying or missing critical components.

Job Category:

Risk Management

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