Director, Regulatory Data Management

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Candidates must provide a cover letter when submitting their application. In the cover letter, candidates must clearly demonstrate how they meet the education and experience criteria listed in the essential and asset qualifications. Please use those criteria as headers and write one or two paragraphs for each demonstrating how the qualification is met by providing concrete examples of how, when and where the experience was obtained. Please note that it is not sufficient to only state that a criterion is met or to provide a listing of current or past responsibilities. Résumés may be used as a secondary source to validate the information provided. Failure to provide the information in the requested format may result in the rejection of your application.

Duties

To provide strategic leadership, oversight, guidance and technical expertise to ensure effective management of the Federally Regulated Financial Institution (FRFI) data and pension data collected by OSFI in support of Supervision, Regulation and external partner needs as appropriate. In partnership with data users, develops and maintains a data management vision and supporting collection, governance, publication and supporting processes that:
- Delivers quality data necessary to meet approved needs;
- Minimizes OSFI’s cost of ownership and the burden to filers;
- Is reflective of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) principles;
- Keeps pace with data management best practices as part of OSFI’s long term IM/IT strategy.

Intent of the process

The immediate need is to staff one position with a language requirement of bilingual imperative CBC/CBC on an indeterminate basis.

A pool of qualified or partially qualified candidates may be created to staff similar positions with various tenures (indeterminate, term, acting, etc.) and/or security requirements (reliability, secret, etc.) within the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

A covering letter in 2,000 words (maximum)

You must meet all essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position. Other qualifications may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed. Some essential and other qualifications will be assessed through your application. It is your responsibility to provide appropriate examples that illustrate how you meet each qualification. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

EDUCATION
- University degree in business, public policy, commerce, mathematics, computer science, or other related field.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE
- Significant** experience in managing large volumes of data supported by the establishment of supporting policies, processes and governance.
- Significant** experience in conducting analysis using financial data.
- Recent* and significant** experience in successfully brokering ideas and managing conflicting stakeholder needs.
- Recent* and significant** experience leading or chairing multi-agency or multi-departmental committees.
- Recent* and significant** experience leading teams or managing people.

* Recent is defined as having been acquired in the last 5 years.
** Significant is defined as the breadth and depth of experience which is normally acquired with having directly performed the duties for a minimum of 3 years.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

ASSET EDUCATION
- Master’s level degree in areas of business, public policy, commerce, mathematics, computer science, or other related field.
- Certified Project Management (PMP)
- Accounting designation

Degree equivalency

ASSET EXPERIENCE
- Experience working in the Financial industry.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Bilingual - Imperative (CBC/CBC)

Information on language requirements

KNOWLEDGE
- Knowledge of project management skills both at the theoretical and practical level.
- Knowledge of data management best practices.
- Knowledge of current GoC Enterprise Information Management (EIM) principles and metadata concepts.

COMPETENCIES
- Innovation
- Change Leadership
- Professional Judgment
- Working as a Team
- Impact and Influence

ABILITIES
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
- Ability to communicate effectively orally.

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

ASSET KNOWLEDGE
- Knowledge of financial supervisory framework.
- Knowledge of the regulatory financial data that OSFI collects from the financial services industry and pension plans.
- A general understanding of IM/IT applications for receipt and storage of data (i.e. data marts, data warehouses). In addition a general appreciation for the potential and limitations of database applications and sufficient grasp of the technical aspects of those applications in order to effectively dialogue with IM/IT (recap).

ASSET COMPETENCIES
- Developing Myself
- Developing Others
- Critical Thinking

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
In order to meet the organization’s employment equity objectives in support of a diversified workforce, selection for this position may be made from among qualified candidates who self-declare as being Persons with a disability or Aboriginal peoples.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
- Willingness and ability to travel within Canada occasionally.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Agreement to be deployed into another REX position within OSFI at the same level.

Other information

A written exam will be administered.

An interview will be administered.

Reference checks may be sought.

The ability to communicate effectively in writing will be assessed using the candidate's application, as well as through the evaluation process.

Candidates invited to an interview will be required to bring proof of their education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcript (original documents only). Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/.

Candidates must meet all of the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position. A candidate may be appointed to a position even though he/she does not meet any or all of the asset qualifications. However, meeting these criteria is desirable and may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed.

Depending on the requirements of the position(s) being staffed from this process, for current or future vacancies, any or all of the asset qualifications may be applied at any time during the staffing process, including screening. Candidates may be contacted and assessed against these criteria at any time during this process.

Achieving a representative workforce has been identified as an organizational need and may be applied in this appointment process. If this criterion is used, only those who have indicated that they are members of the specified designated group(s) will be considered.

A top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

For this selection process, our intention is to communicate with applicants by e-mail (including sending invitations for written tests and interviews). Applicants who apply to this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and make sure this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.

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If you do not have Internet access in your home or through friends, relatives or neighbours, here are some suggested locations: campus career centers, libraries, community centers, Internet cafés and Services Canada. You may also call 1-800-O-Canada (1-800-622-6232), or TTY 1-800-926-9105, for information on the nearest public Internet access locations.

Persons with a disability preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact 1-800-645-5605.

Applicants with disabilities: If you require special accommodation at any stage in the selection process, including technical aid to ensure an equitable assessment of your qualifications, please inform us by sending an e-mail to the following address: .

OSFI's Ottawa location is downtown with easy access to shopping, restaurants, gyms, financial institutions and more. The building is less than a five minute walk from the Transitway and from the nearest STO stop.

As a Separate Agency, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) appoints employees in accordance with the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA). OSFI is named in Schedule V of the Financial Administration Act (FAA) and it offers the same pension and benefits plans as the core Federal Public Service. In addition to this, OSFI employees obtain a minimum of 4 weeks of vacation leave per year, earn a competitive salary, and are eligible for an annual performance bonus.

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, it promotes employment equity and encourages candidates to indicate voluntarily on their application if they are a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group.

The Public Service of Canada is also committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, you should advise the Public Service Commission or the departmental official in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.