Senior Manager US Finance Business Management

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The Business Management group serves as the primary liaison between all US Finance teams that include the Controllership, Financial Planning and Analysis, Strategy, Tax and Treasury. The group supports those teams with new initiatives and projects in an effort to drive and sustain efficiencies while maintaining a strong control environment. This role is responsible for supporting the team’s leadership in all aspects of business management through proactive responsiveness to information requests and helping to resolve day-to-day service or business related issues with a primary focus on coordination of risk identification, governance and controls.
 

The Senior Manager will work closely with the US Finance teams and 2nd lines of defense (Operational Risk, Enterprise Risk Management and Compliance) to develop and implement well managed business control related processes to ensure their risks are appropriately mitigated and that all relevant CIBC policies are implemented effectively across US Finance.  

• Serve as the Leader for business controls management across the US Finance organization
• Support the design, execution, and reporting on business controls for all functional areas within US Finance and identify control enhancements as needed.
• Liaise between US Finance Managers and other lines of defense and control groups across CIBC US
• Collaborate with Finance groups in identifying, developing and monitoring new business controls that result from change initiative risk assessments.
• Provide risk and compliance guidance in developing, reviewing and maintaining business processes as it relates to US Finance teams and the related reporting of RAS and/or Non-RAS metrics
• Coordinate the US Finance Management team through the annual Risk & Control Self-Assessment and communicate results back to the team’s leadership.
• Oversee the risk and control inventory and oversee the assessment & design remediation of deficiencies and the reporting of operational and data incidents.
• Lead team members who are responsible to manage and monitor existing Governed Applications and own addition of new Governed Applications to the business process as defined in the BMT Policy
• Facilitate the compliance of business continuity, procedure/policy management, operational resilience and records retention requirements across US Finance.

A successful candidate should possess the follow capabilities:

• Highly motivated, self-starter; strategic thinker able to work in a fast paced, results driven environment;
• Strong interpersonal, written, verbal and presentation skills;
• The ability to develop or oversee a comprehensive project