Manager, Risk - Technology Services Group

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**About the Role** Join a dynamic and engaging **Technology Services Group** that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and growth. Our team is growing, and we’re looking for a **Manager, Risk** to help us continue building an exceptional team of professionals at Optimus SBR.This role is an exciting opportunity to lead meaningful technology advisory, delivery, risk, cybersecurity, and controls engagements across diverse industries. If you’re passionate about solving complex problems, building trusted client relationships, developing high-performing teams, and delivering impactful technology solutions, this role is for you. **About Us** Optimus SBR is a leading management consulting firm and award-winning workplace where we help organizations get done what isn’t. Our team of committed consultants takes swift action to deliver innovative, impactful results. As the largest independently owned Canadian management consulting firm, we are a place where people and culture come first. Our success is driven by attracting individuals who are insatiably Curious, Entrepreneurial Thinkers, Authentic, and Bold. **Our Awards and Recognitions:** - Best Workplaces™ in Canada National List 2026 - Best Workplaces™ with the Most Trusted Executive Team 2026 - Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent 2026 - Best Workplaces™ for Women 2026 - Best Workplaces™ in Professional Services 2025 - Globe and Mail – Canada's Top Growing Companies 2025 - Waterstone Human Capital - Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures™ 2025 **Culture is Everything. Period.** That’s why we’ve been consistently rated one of the best places to work in North America – and are one of the fastest growing. As a firm that was built on culture, we value our people and their growth. Each of us embody the entrepreneurial spirit and have something unique to contribute to the fabric of our organization. From employee-championed committees to celebratory events and learning paths, these are just a few of the ways we cultivate a positive and engaging work environment. **What’s in It for You?** - **Growth Opportunities**: Build your career through challenging, impactful projects and continuous learning. - **Diverse Workplace**: Collaborate with a team of professionals from unique backgrounds, fostering innovation. - **Flexibility and Autonomy**: Enjoy the freedom to take ownership of your work and drive meaningful results. - **Leadership Development**: Develop your skills through mentorship and career progression opportunities. **Responsibilities:** **Technology Advisory & Delivery** - Lead project scoping, approach design, work planning, team structure, resource requirements, and effort and timeline estimation. - Lead technology risk and advisory engagements, taking accountability for delivery within agreed scope, timelines, budgets, and quality expectations. - Serve as a key day-to-day client contact, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and providing clear, practical advice. - Lead client meetings, workshops, and working sessions, and oversee the development of reports, presentations, recommendations, and executive-level deliverables. - Manage multiple workstreams and project teams, ensuring effective coordination across client and Optimus SBR resources. - Proactively identify, manage, and escalate project risks, issues, dependencies, resource constraints, and changes in scope. - Provide quality oversight and review of project deliverables to ensure recommendations are well supported, practical, and aligned with client objectives. - Identify opportunities to expand client relationships and support the development of follow-on engagements. **Cyber & Technology****Risk** - Lead technology risk, cybersecurity, regulatory, governance, and controls advisory engagements. - Assess technology risks and evaluate the effectiveness of associated governance, processes, and controls. - Apply recognized risk and control frameworks to assess complex client environments and develop practical, risk-based recommendations. - Lead reviews of policies, standards, procedures, risk assessments, and control documentation for completeness, consistency, and alignment with regulatory and industry expectations. - Lead and support regulatory and industry-standard assessments, including evaluating whether relevant risks, requirements, and obligations are appropriately addressed. - Identify opportunities to strengthen, standardize, rationalize, or automate risk and control activities. - Demonstrate strong knowledge of control design and operating effectiveness, including control objectives, testing approaches, evidence requirements, deficiency assessment, and documentation of conclusions. - Oversee control assessment and testing activities across IT general controls, application controls, business controls, and technology-dependent controls. - Review team analysis and testing to ensure findings are appropriately supported, risk-rated, and clearly communicated. - Translate complex technology and risk matters into clear recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. **Leadership & Practice Development** - Provide day-to-day direction, coaching and mentoring project teams. You will also be responsible for career management, professional development, and supporting employees through Optimus SBR’s Career Development Program (CDP). - Lead cross-functional teams and drive technology, risk, and security initiatives through to completion. - Manage project team performance, workload, priorities, and quality while creating an environment that supports collaboration and professional growth. - Contribute to business development through proposal development, opportunity identification, client relationship building, and participation in sales activities. - Contribute to the growth and development of Optimus SBR’s Technology Services practice through thought leadership, methodology development, knowledge sharing, and internal initiatives. - Contribute to the life and culture of Optimus SBR. **Qualifications:** **Required:** - 7+ years of relevant experience in technology risk, IT audit, cybersecurity, control testing, regulatory compliance, technology delivery, or advisory consulting. - Demonstrated experience leading technology risk, controls, cybersecurity, or technology advisory engagements and managing project teams. - Strong understanding of IT and business controls, including experience assessing control design and operating effectiveness. - Experience reviewing policies, procedures, risks, and controls and identifying gaps, remediation opportunities, and opportunities for standardization or automation. - Experience leading or supporting cybersecurity/technology governance, maturity, regulatory readiness, or operating-model assessments. - Knowledge of recognized frameworks such as COSO, COBIT, NIST CSF, or ISO 27001. - Strong project-management capabilities, including experience managing scope, timelines, budgets, risks, resources, and deliverable quality. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, presentation, and client-engagement skills. - Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders and translate complex technology or risk topics into clear business implications and recommendations. - Experience directing workstreams, coaching team members, reviewing work products, and providing constructive feedback. - Ability to balance multiple client and internal priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment. - **Required Education:** University degree in business, accounting, technology, cybersecurity, or a related discipline. - **Preferred Education:** Post-Graduate degree (e.g., MBA, MPA or MPP), PMP, or additional professional (e.g., P.Eng.) or other designation (e.g., CPA, Lean, or PROSCI). **Nice to Have:** - Certifications such as CPA, CRISC, CISSP, CISA, or CISM. - Understanding of Canadian and US regulators, including OSFI, OCC, FFIEC, and FRB. - Experience with SOX/ICFR, SOC reporting, or IT audit/control assurance activities. - Previous experience in a 1LoD or 2LoD role. - Experience with control rationalization, regulatory mapping, procedure development, or identifying automation opportunities. - Familiarity with GRC, analytics, and automation tools. - Big 4 or management consulting firm experience. - Experience supporting business development, proposals, or account growth. **Interview recording & AI notetakers** During the interview process, we may use transcription or AI notetaking tools. To protect privacy, legal compliance, and interviewer/candidate experience, the use of these tools is not permitted without your prior consent. We will ask for your consent and if you wish to decline, handwritten notes are welcome. **Compensation**: Salary range is $110,000-135,000 CAD Salary ranges are designed to be competitive. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, and experience and is subject to negotiation and subject to the candidate meeting the specific requirements or the role. Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role. **A Taste of Some of the Great Benefits at Optimus** **Financial** - Annual Bonus - Retirement savings through our Group RRSP program - Company equity for Managers and above - Maternity and Parental Leave with top up compensation **Flexibility** - Work in a Hybrid model (when client projects permit) - 12 Optimus Days paid **Health** - Top-tier health benefits - Life & disability insurance - Health Spending Dollars