Consultant - Risk and Compliance
Sia Partners
Compliance / Regulatory
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on May 14, 2026
Job description
Key Responsibilities:
- Regulatory Obligations Management: Analyze, interpret, and document legal and regulatory requirements to identify, map, and update obligations within the client’s Regulatory Compliance Management (RCM) library
- Control Design & Implementation: Advise on, design, and implement robust operational controls and compliance frameworks to ensure adherence to regulations
- Risk Assessment & Testing: Lead RCSA (Risk and Control Self-Assessments) initiatives, conduct thematic reviews, and perform testing of controls to identify compliance deficiencies and operational gaps
- Advisory & Transformation: Provide strategic, risk-based advice to stakeholders regarding regulatory changes, emerging trends (e.g., AI governance), and operational efficiency.
- Project Leadership: Manage project workstreams, including timelines, budgets, and deliverable quality, while coaching junior staff.
- Regulatory Analysis & Strategy: Assess and interpret emerging regulatory trends, supervisory expectations, and enforcement actions to develop compliance strategies
- Compliance Best Practices: Understand, develop and maintain best practices for regulatory compliance
- Innovative Problem Solving: Independently identify and analyze complex business problems and proactively develop innovative and sustainable solutions using consulting frameworks and other problem-solving tools
- Data-Driven Insight & Communication: Distill complex information into clear problem statements, independently develop and implement data driven solutions, and synthesize insights into compelling presentations and recommendations for senior leadership
- Regulatory Interpretation & Controls Mapping: Ability to read laws, regulations and rules to understand applicability of obligations for client context and assist with mapping obligations to controls
- Risk & Compliance Transformation Support: Ability to support transformational client engagements across both first line functions (Controls design, control testing) and second line functions (operational risk, compliance)