The risk professional sought for this position supports the Risk Appetite and Assessment team’s initiatives, reporting to the Head of Risk Appetite and Assessment who is located in Montreal. The Risk Appetite and Assessment team is part of the SG Americas Enterprise Risk Management Team. This role involves contributing to the identification, assessment, and management of risks, collaborating with various teams to ensure effective risk governance and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Day-to-day responsibilities include but are not limited to:

· Risk Appetite and Assessment: assist in maintaining and enhancing the Risk Appetite Statement for SGUS, including supporting the annual review, reporting and escalation processes.

· Risk Identification and Assessment:

o Contribute to the enterprise-wide risk identification program, partnering with the second and first lines of defense to report on material risks.

o Support the development and maintenance of an enterprise-level analytics / Key Risk Indicators program to facilitate independent assessment and challenge.

· Enterprise-wide stress testing program: participate in the maintenance of the enterprise-wide stress testing program in alignment with regulatory guidelines (FRB SR 12-7).

· Enterprise-wide risk reporting: support the coordination of enterprise-level risk committees across the Americas, reporting to SG AMER Senior Management.

· Strategic Risk: participate in the bank’s management of strategic risk.

· Risk Management maintenance and improvement:

o Maintain up-to-date enterprise-wide risk management frameworks (Risk Taxonomy, Risk Rating methodology, etc.).

o Support the continuous improvement of risk management processes, tools and practices.

o Promote a strong risk culture and maintain an effective risk management framework by collaborating with various areas of the firm.

o Assist in efforts to raise self-identified issues and to remediate existing issues.

o Support overarching initiatives such as the remediation of independent findings (Regulatory, Testing, Audit).

o Support transversal topics such as regulatory exams, change-the-bank activities, presentations to Senior Management both in SG Americas and at Head Office level.