Associate Director, Counterparty Credit Risk

September 5, 2025

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What is your opportunity?

As Associate Director, you will support the Director of CCREM ISP where you will provide second-line overnight of inventory, settlement, and pre-settlement exposures across the Canadian and global trading businesses through a broad range of trading products and counterparties, with emphasis on robust exposure identification, limit oversight, and risk governance.

Your role is critical to the ongoing development and execution of our risk management framework. It will help shape and uphold the firm’s CCR risk standards, and to maintain best-in-class risk standards and limit discipline.

You will bring deep technical knowledge, strong analytical judgement, and a proven track record of delivering high standards in a global banking environment. Offering the opportunity to shape risk policy, support front-office business, and contribute to strategic regulatory and infrastructure initiatives.

What will you do?

  • Lead and oversee the assessment, monitoring, and control of inventory risk, settlement risk, and pre-settlement risk across trading desks and legal entities.

  • Pro-actively investigate risks to provide comprehensive analysis to senior management on risk trends and concerns. Lead in review and recommendation for approval of transactions to help facilitate business while ensuring proper risk controls. Investigate, document and appropriately report/escalate credit limit excesses as per internal policies inclusive of Conduct Risk.

  • Partner with Front Office, Legal, Operations, Technology and other Risk functions to ensure effective risk controls and escalation mechanisms are in place.

  • Drive continuous improvement through data-driven insights, process automation, and development of risk tools and dashboards, enhancing our capability to investigate and appropriately report and escalate credit limit excesses and exposure concerns.

  • Represent CCR in governance forums and regulatory engagements and contribute to global policy updates.

  • Contribute to internal audit and regulatory/supervisory reviews through high-quality documentation and process transparency.

  • Participate in new product assessments and strategic risk architecture enhancements.

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