Vice President, Business Control Assurance

<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><span>Application Deadline:</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>12/30/2026<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><span>Address:</span></p>100 King Street West<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left">Job Family Group:</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Business Management<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p>BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service financial services provider.

We offer corporate and investment banking, treasury management, as well as research and advisory services to clients around the world. #bmocapitalmarkets</p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p><span style="color:#494949">The <b>VP, Business Control Assurance</b> is part of Governance and Controls within the Capital Markets Office of the Chief Operating Officer (OCOO).

Reporting to the <b>MD, Control Assurance</b>, the role supports a consistent, risk-based first-line assurance program across BMO Capital Markets businesses, functions, legal entities and non-financial risk categories.</span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949">The VP leads assigned assurance portfolios and the day-to-day planning, execution and quality review of control testing, with primary responsibility for Design Effectiveness and Operating Effectiveness assessments.

Operating within the strategy, methodology, risk appetite and annual plan established by the MD, the role develops test approaches, supervises testers and assigned resources, challenges evidence and conclusions, and escalates material findings, capacity constraints and methodology questions. The VP works closely with Business Control teams, control owners, Operations, Technology, first-line Enterprise Control Functions, Regulatory Business Control, second-line risk and Internal Audit while preserving the independence and objectivity of first-line testing.

</span></p><p><b> </b></p><p><span style="color:#494949"><b>Key Roles & Responsibilities</b></span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#494949"><b><u>Assigned Portfolio Planning and Execution</u></b> – Translate the MD-approved Capital Markets assurance strategy and annual plan into executable testing portfolios, using risk, control inventory, prior testing, issues, events, audit results, business change and regulatory priorities to focus coverage on material exposures.

</span><ul><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Risk-based coverage:</b> Define scope, sequencing, frequency and testing approach across businesses, processes, legal entities and risk categories; identify overlaps and gaps across first-, second- and third-line assurance activity.</span></li><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Test design:</b> Develop proportionate test strategies, scripts, sampling approaches and evidence requirements that address the control objective and underlying risk.

</span></li><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Stakeholder alignment:</b> Engage Business Control teams and subject matter experts during planning and test design without compromising independent execution or conclusions.</span></li><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Ownership and accountability:</b> Document and operationalize clear roles across Business Control teams, Governance and Controls, control owners, first-line Enterprise Control Functions and other assurance providers for assigned portfolios; identify overlaps, gaps or conflicting expectations and escalate matters requiring enterprise or senior management resolution to the MD.

</span></li><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Resource delivery:</b> Deploy assigned employees and contractors based on risk, product knowledge, technical capability and capacity; manage day-to-day delivery and escalate structural capacity or capability gaps to the MD.</span></li></ul></li></ul><p><b><u> </u></b></p><ul><li><span style="color:#494949"><b><u>Testing Execution, Quality and Findings</u></b> – Lead the end-to-end testing lifecycle from initiation through Effective Challenge, reporting and remediation follow-up.

</span><ul><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Execution:</b> Perform or oversee Design Effectiveness and Operating Effectiveness testing; document scope, populations, samples, evidence, exceptions, ratings and rationale in accordance with enterprise and Capital Markets requirements.</span></li><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Quality review:</b> Review work for completeness, consistency and supportability; challenge weak evidence, unsupported conclusions and methodology deviations before submission.

</span></li><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Findings and remediation:</b> Communicate deficiencies promptly, support root-cause and issue assessment, agree practical actions with accountable owners, and track remediation and re-testing to closure without assuming business ownership.</span></li><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Book of record:</b> Ensure testing plans, results, approvals, evidence and required records are complete, accurate, timely and audit-ready in GRCE.

</span></li><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Effective Challenge:</b> Coordinate with second-line risk stakeholders, respond to challenge, resolve factual or methodological questions and escalate unresolved matters through the appropriate governance path.</span></li></ul></li><li><span style="color:#494949"><b><u>Governance, Reporting and Continuous Improvement</u></b> – Translate assurance results into decision-ready insight and strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of the program.

</span><ul><li><span style="color:#494949"><b>Management reporting:</b> Report plan delivery, test outcomes, overdue activity, recurring deficiencies, risk concentrations