Consultant - Risk and Compliance

Sia Partners

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)