MANAGER, OPERATIONAL RISK

Would you like to earn above average pay helping members meet their financial goals, maintain a strong work life balance, a flexible schedule and have the security of a career – path supported by your organization? We offer that and so much more.

THE COMPANY – Our Purpose is to redefine banking by helping Canadians simplify their lives and reach their financial goals by reinvesting profits into our members, communities and our people. Now that Responsible Banking!

Click the link below to see what Innovation Credit Union is about! Trust us, you are going to want to learn more about who we are!

Innovation Credit Union – About Us (innovationcu.ca)

THE POSITION:  The Manager, Operational Risk reports to the Chief Risk Officer and leads the development and implementation of the operational risk management framework. The manager of operational risk will collaboratively work with internal business units and teams to perform operational risk assessments and ensure appropriate plans are established to align to Risk Appetite. The Manager, Operational Risk will monitor operational risk issues and will provide regular reporting to both Senior Management and the Board of Director’s Risk Committee. The position will play a key role in championing and instilling an effective enterprise wide risk management culture.  How does one do this? Glad you asked!

A Manager, Operational Risk does the following:

  • Develop operational risk policies and practices to ensure Operational Risk Management framework evolves with the changing needs and risk profile of the credit union.
  • Keeps abreast if latest operational risk management techniques and industry best practices.
  • Works with internal teams and business units to identify key operational risks, facilitates risk control self assessments and ensure business units build appropriate action plans to address operational risk issues.
  • Monitor operational risk issues and action plans for the credit union and provide consolidated reporting to board and senior management.
  • Assist in investigation of root causes of operational risk and will provide support to mitigate risk.
  • Support the management of development and validation approaches to credit union risk modeling and measurement, risk assessment and mitigation within the ORM and ERM frameworks
  • Provide management and development in context to the ORM Framework
  • Identify deficiencies and advise of potential risk situations
  • Monitor and evaluate policy and procedures for enterprise risk and make recommendations for improvement to ensure policies and procedures are enacted accurately and effectively communicate key control provisions
  • Create and maintain a constructive culture that is conducive to team achievement, productivity improvement and professionalism

Why Should You Apply?

  • You want to be an ambassador of a forward-thinking, member focused organization
  • You have a university degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Public Administration, Law, or a related discipline; plus 4-6 years of job-related experience (or an equivalent combination of education, experience and learning, preferably within the credit union system)
  • You will have or will be willing to work towards a Risk Management certification.
  • You have a track record of success in quality control and assurance as it relates to operational risk
  • You have strong attention to detail, organizational awareness, and you are strategic in nature
  • Have a strong understanding of the Microsoft Environment, workflows, and file management
  • Previous operational risk management experience in a federally regulated financial institution is preferred but not necessary.

Visit the CAREERS page or our website to learn more about this position and to apply.  www.innovationcu.ca  Only those applications received through our job board will be considered.

Solutions Architect

As one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for 18 consecutive years, Concentra prides itself on fostering employee engagement and a workplace of openness and respect.

Concentra is Canada’s leading provider of wholesale banking and trust solutions to credit unions from coast to coast. With deep co-operative roots, Concentra is focused on creating value for the credit union system. We partner with credit unions to ensure over five million Canadian members can choose competitive financial services from their local credit union.

Concentra Trust – a wholly-owned subsidiary – has been delivering estate and trust services nationwide for over 65 years.

Concentra employees enjoy a competitive total rewards package and flexible work environment. We are looking for a results-oriented individual to join our team in one of our Saskatoon, Regina, Surrey or Toronto office locations, or from your home office environment.

Solutions Architect

(Full-time, Permanent Position)

Key Outcomes:

The Solutions Architect ensures that the Bank’s Enterprise Infrastructure Systems are appropriately designed, managed, documented and organized throughout the entire development and maintenance lifecycle. This position is responsible for short to medium term objectives, and conducts in-depth analysis and employs conceptual thinking, working to find unique solutions to problems considering interconnection among applications and/or lines of business.

The Solutions Architect assists other business units in understanding problems and ensuring a holistic perspective and collaborates to resolve issues and architect solutions to either new applications, or for application improvements. This position also provides subject matter expertise and is responsible for the creation, maintenance and management of IT architecture models and their lower-level components.

Qualifications:

  • Post-secondary degree in Computer Science; a comparable combination of education and relevant work experience may be considered
  • 7-10 years of experience with Azure cloud support or development
  • 7-10 years of experience with Data Centre support or development
  • Experience working in Agile work environments and projects is preferred
  • 3 years of experience in the financial services industry with an in-depth understanding of infrastructure architecture

Applications for this opportunity accepted until end of day June 29, 2021.

To apply, please visit our Career page at www.concentra.ca

At Concentra, our goal is to achieve a workforce as diverse as the people we partner with. We encourage all members of the designated groups; aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, women, visible minorities and others to join our team. Concentra strives to provide a safe and respectful work environment free of discrimination and harassment and is committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

 

Growth Marketer

Would you like to earn above average pay, maintain a strong work life balance, a flexible schedule and have the security of a career-path supported by your organization? We offer that and so much more.

THE COMPANY – Our purpose is to redefine banking by helping Canadians simplify their lives and reach their financial goals by reinvesting profits into our members, communities and our people. Now That’s Responsible Banking!

Innovation Credit Union has a bold ambition – to be the most digital, member-centric organization in our industry. We are on a journey to modernize our marketing with investments in new platforms like Adobe Experience Manager and a shift to agile ways of working.

How does one do this? Glad you asked!

THE POSITION:  The role of Growth Marketer is an exciting opportunity to help define acquisition, cross sell and engagement strategies that will accelerate growth and support in deepening our relationships with our members. In this role you will be responsible for developing new member acquisition and cross sell plans, identifying optimization opportunities and leading cross sell and engagement programs. All member strategies will be designed to support the broader Innovation Credit Union business strategies, and ensure roadmaps, plans and initiatives are developed and executed in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures. This position reports to the Vice-President of Integrated Marketing and Data Analytics.

Visit the CAREERS page or our website to learn more about this position and to apply.  www.innovationcu.ca  Only those applications received through our job board will be considered.

VeriBranch Lead

VeriBranch Lead

Permanent Full-time

Open to any location in Canada

Closes February 24

At Innovation Credit Union, we redefine banking by helping Canadians simplify their lives and reach their financial goals by reinvesting profits into our members, our communities and our people. Now that’s responsible banking!

THE POSITION: Under the direction of the Manager, Digital & Core Banking, the VeriBranch Lead is responsible for evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, and uncovering areas for improvement during the implementation of VeriBranch, an omni-channel banking platform. Areas of responsibility include:

  • Work with the vendor to match business processes to vendor workflows
  • Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies
  • Collaborate with vendors to establish and document shared testing strategies and processes
  • Lead team members in test planning, test case creation and test execution activities
  • Attend meetings and delivering presentations to share ideas and findings
  • Work closely with vendor, technicians, and business units
  • Ensure vendor solutions meet business needs and requirements
  • Perform functional and user acceptance testing
  • Support the Project Manager on project management activities

Some of the skills and abilities we would prefer to see in your application:

  • Bachelor’s Degree / Master’s Degree preferably in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • A minimum of 4 years’ experience in business analysis or a related field
  • Advanced project management skills including Agile
  • Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
  • The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
  • Advanced technical skills
  • Excellent documentation skills
  • Competency in Microsoft applications
  • History of strong professional development

Compensation will commensurate with qualifications and experience. Innovation Credit Union offers a comprehensive employee benefits package including a 7% company matched pension plan. An attractive variable incentive program is also available.

Salary Range: $75,200 to $94,000

DATA MODELER

Open to any location in Canada – ability to work REMOTELY

At Innovation Credit Union, we are on the journey to leverage our data as a strategic asset and to deliver better member experiences. We are in the process of modernizing our data warehouse so it can adapt to new data technologies and remain relevant for new data-driven business requirements, such as advanced analytics, multichannel marketing, and other digital enterprise programs.

To help carry us forward, we are searching for an experienced data modeler, a doer, a motivated self-learner, to join our team. The ideal candidate should be able to identify new technologies to solve problems and highly skilled in the development of the data model by providing thought leadership, business analysis and organization skills.  Reporting to the Data Governance & Architecture Lead, the Data Modeler will organize working sessions to gather requirements from various subject matter experts and analyze overall business needs. Serve as a reference and authority on the process of data modeling and ensure consistency with existing data models and data architectures and establish standards and guidelines. This role requires strong technical skills like connecting disparate data sources, as well as business knowledge, interviewing and analytical skills and excellent oral and written communications skills.

If this sounds like what you want out of a career, visit the CAREERS page of our website to learn more about this position and to apply.

www.innovationcu.ca

Only those applications submitted through our on-line job board will be considered.

Apply by February 23, 2021 via the careers page of our website.  Only those applications submitted through our on-line job board will be considered.

DATA SCIENTIST

Open to any location in Canada – ability to work REMOTELY

At Innovation Credit Union, we are on the journey to leverage our data as a strategic asset and to deliver better member experiences and product and services growth milestones. We are in the process of modernizing our data warehouse so it can adapt to new data technologies and remain relevant for new data-driven business requirements, such as advanced analytics and multichannel marketing.

The person in this position has data science experience in statistical programming: Python, R.  Database analytics tools and machine learning frameworks, technologies, and platform: SQL, Databricks, Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, Azure, AWS. Experience in data integration with upstream and downstream systems, data development, database structures and data transfer methods: ETL, API.  Strong experience in data-driven marketing with focus on segmentation and measurement.  Exposure to marketing tech is strongly preferred – digital analytics platforms: Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics. Experience with Reporting and Visualization tools is strongly preferred: POWER BI.

If this sounds like what you want out of a career, visit the CAREERS page of our website to learn more about this position and to apply.

www.innovationcu.ca

Only those applications submitted through our on-line job board will be considered.

Apply by February 23, 2021 via the careers page of our website.  Only those applications submitted through our on-line job board will be considered.

DATA GOVERNANCE & ARCHITECTURE LEAD

Open to any location in Canada – ability to work REMOTELY

At Innovation Credit Union, we are on the journey to leverage our data as a strategic asset and to deliver better member experiences. We are in the process of modernizing our data warehouse so it can adapt to new data technologies and remain relevant for new data-driven business requirements, such as advanced analytics, multichannel marketing, and other digital enterprise programs.

We recognize that there is a need for ownership and standards, and we acknowledge there is room for launching a tailored data governance framework addressing obvious pain points within our organization. We are searching for a Data Governance & Architecture Lead to help us realize the vision of a managed and effective data governance framework which will be an integrated part of how we conduct our business.  Reporting to the VP Digital & Fintechs, this is an exciting opportunity for a trail blazer that can bring about data driven transformation and execution of enterprise-wide, governance and management of data assets. As a member of the Business Intelligence Team, the Data Governance & Architecture Lead will drive the agile approach for the operational effort and execution of data governance, enabling business via the development and implementation of data quality standards, and effective use of data while minimizing privacy, security, operational and reputational risks associated with data.


If this sounds like what you want out of a career, v
isit the CAREERS page of our website to learn more about this position and to apply.

www.innovationcu.ca

Only those applications submitted through our on-line job board will be considered.

Apply by February 23, 2021 via the careers page of our website.  Only those applications submitted through our on-line job board will be considered.

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