Director TPS Risk Advisory

Application Deadline:

10/19/2026

Address:

320 S Canal Street

Job Family Group:

Business Management

Business Overview

Treasury & Payment Solutions (TPS) is a strategic business within BMO's North American Integrated Solutions (NAIS) platform, delivering payment, treasury management, commercial card, merchant acquiring, liquidity, and cash management capabilities to commercial, corporate, institutional, and government clients across North America. As a critical enabler of client growth and the movement of money, TPS supports organizations through innovative payment solutions, operational excellence, and prudent risk management.

The TPS Governance & Controls team serves as the first line of defense risk and governance function for TPS and is responsible for ensuring that risk management practices keep pace with business growth, product innovation, regulatory expectations, and evolving operational risks. The team partners closely with business leaders, product teams, operations, compliance, legal, technology, and second line risk functions to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risk while enabling strategic business objectives.

The Opportunity

The Director, TPS Risk Advisory plays a key leadership role within TPS Governance & Controls, providing strategic risk oversight and trusted advisory support across a diverse portfolio of payment, treasury, and commercial banking products and services. The role is responsible for partnering with business executives and key stakeholders to assess new initiatives, product changes, emerging risks, regulatory developments, and operational challenges to ensure risks are appropriately identified, understood, and managed.

The successful candidate will lead a team of risk professionals responsible for providing governance and risk advisory coverage across TPS initiatives, programs, products, and client-facing activities. This includes oversight of risk assessments, issue management, audit and regulatory engagement support, control design and effectiveness reviews, change initiatives, third-party risk considerations, and the implementation of risk mitigation strategies.

As a member of the TPS Governance & Controls leadership team, this role contributes to the broader mandate of protecting the organization, strengthening the control environment, supporting sustainable business growth, and ensuring the ongoing safety, soundness, and resilience of BMO's Treasury & Payment Solutions business

Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do.

Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.

Regularly connects work to BMO’s purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.

Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.

Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent.

Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance.Acts as a strategic partner to ensure the program elements becomes an integrated component of the overall business/group strategies.

Develops an expert understanding of business/group challenges.

Develops longer term program strategies assessing both internal needs & industry trends to deliver best-in-class programs for BMO.

Supports multiple, varied business units with significant complexity & business transaction risk.

Acts as a subject matter expert on relevant regulations and policies.

Acts as a subject matter expert in the evaluation, development and implementation of an internal control system.

Prepares and briefs senior leaders on regulatory matters across multiple businesses/groups.

Monitors and advises on management of risk requirements within the defined risk appetite.

Manages/supports large/complex risk programs/frameworks /projects/initiatives to ensure risks are appropriately mitigated and regulations adhered to.

Monitors industry and legislative developments and continuously updates programs to ensure they are competitive and effective.

Supports the position on regulatory compliance issues by interpreting requirements (existing, new and emerging) and identifying, analysing and addressing resultant gaps and issues, including those raised through the review of change initiatives.

Understands the identified risk exposures and supports the development of action plans required to mitigate identified risks.

Represents the business/group on Governance/Risk Working Groups/Forums and provides regular updates.

May establish/manage a 1st LOD control group to oversee business/group adherence to the applicable risk managements requirements. May include evaluating the effectiveness of the controls, reporting on risk assessments and reviews, ensuring the business/group management addresses any identified risks and control deficiencies and the provision of advice and guidance to management concerning the design, and operation of the business/group controls.

May consult to or serve on various committees and task forces.

Directs strategic programs that impact BMO and provides integrated management of subsidiary projects and internal or external stakeholders.

Provides overall program level change leadership to ensure program vision and objectives are achieved and effectively integrated across BMO.

Builds effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders.

Ensures alignment between stakeholders.

Acts as the prime contact for internal/external stakeholder relationships, which may include regulators.

Monitors and tracks performance, and addresses any issues.

Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.

Leads change management programs of varying scope and type, including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives.

Leads the execution of operational programs; assesses and adapts as needed to ensure quality of execution.

Monitoring to ensure that 1st line jobs are following defined processes and procedures.

Develops, documents and maintains business/group procedures updating and obtaining approvals as regulations or the operating environment changes and communicates changes to the business/group & relevant stakeholder groups.

Designs measurable sustainment strategies including assessing and recommending mitigations for industry/ segment-specific risks and prioritizing opportunities presented by internal and external stakeholders.

Tracks exception/exemption requests and corresponding approvals.

Facilitates training to ensure business unit employees fully understand requirements.

Provides quality control for investigations, self-reports, examinations and independent reviews conducted by internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, providing verbal and written responses to requests for positions, action plans, information and/or documentation.

May act as the designated Primary Business Unit Compliance Officer (BUCO) and/or Anti-Money Laundering Reporting Officer for the operating group and is accountable to meet all program requirements (e.g., Operating Group Compliance Program, AML Program Framework).

Builds awareness, knowledge, and skills and, as necessary, provides communication, practical tools and ongoing support including making presentations, to promote a culture of risk identification and management.

Supports the design, development, coordination of implementation, automation and continuous improvement of 1LOD LOB risk management programs, including supporting the establishment and maintenance of LOB specific policies standards, business processes and controls across all app