CIBC | Associate, Oversight - Global Asset Management

Responsibilities

• As an Associate, Oversight, you’ll work closely with the Senior Associate, Oversight and business partners across Global Asset Management to support key oversight activities and help strengthen governance practices.
• You’ll assist with Change Initiative Risk Assessments (CIRA), Business Managed Technology requirements, Bloomberg access and index data permissions, and trade error reviews to help identify themes, monitor remediation actions, and reduce the risk of recurrence.
• You’ll also help assess risk exposures and control gaps, support updates to operational procedures in response to policy changes and identified deficiencies, and contribute to training and remediation activities that strengthen control awareness across the business.
• In addition, you’ll support teams in preparing for internal audits, regulatory examinations, and control testing, while applying your knowledge of financial markets, asset classes, and applicable regulatory requirements to day-to-day oversight activities.
• In this role, you’ll build strong relationships across Global Asset Management and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance processes, streamline ways of working, and reduce operational risk.
• Assist Global Asset Management teams in preparing for internal audits, regulatory examinations, and control testing by organizing information, supporting responses, and helping address follow-up items.
• Analyze and synthesize risk exposures, operational losses, root causes and control gaps.
• Assist with Business Managed Technology requirements, including maintaining accurate inventories, reviewing documentation, and supporting the business in meeting governance expectations.
• Review trade error reporting for completeness, monitor remediation plans, and maintain themes and trends to help identify root causes and opportunities to strengthen controls.
• Support the maintenance of Bloomberg access and index data permissions to help ensure appropriate user access and effective operational controls.
• Provide guidance and support GAM teams in the update of operational procedures following updates due to policy changes, identified deficiencies, and help track remediation activity to support timely and effective resolution.
• Contribute to ad hoc projects that help Global Asset Management enhance processes and improve ways of working, with a focus on streamlining activities and reducing the risk of errors.
• Propose recommendations to mitigate risk exposures and control gaps.
• Training and remediation support - Support the delivery of training sessions for Global Asset Management employees as new policy requirements are introduced and when training is needed as part of remediation efforts to address identified deficiencies and strengthen control awareness.

Who you are

• You can demonstrate experience in operational risk oversight, asset management compliance reviews, control testing, or related governance activities.
• It’s an asset if you have experience supporting audits, deficiency remediation, or Business Managed Technology requirements.
• You have a degree/diploma in Finance, Business, Accounting, or a related field.
• You bring demonstrated experience of 5+ years in asset management compliance reviews, operational risk, or related experience.
• You can demonstrate experience in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Monday.com.
• It’s an asset if you have experience using these tools to manage inventories, reporting, workflow tracking, and documentation.
• You know that details matter. You notice things that others don't. Your critical thinking skills help to inform your decision making.

CIBC

CIBC is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance). In its own words: "Bank on your terms with CIBC – whether it’s in person, over the phone or online, CIBC has you covered."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Toronto, Montréal, Sudbury and Vancouver.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance