About the Role
This role supports the governance and oversight of third-party and intercompany arrangements across the UK, Europe, and APAC. It is responsible for ensuring third-party risk management activities, risk assessments, service reviews, and performance monitoring are carried out in line with internal requirements and regional regulatory expectations. The role also contributes to regulatory change implementation, contract uplift activity, senior management reporting, and the ongoing enhancement of third-party risk and intercompany services frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Support the Regional Third Party Governance Office (TPGO) team based in London, with responsibility for third-party risk governance and oversight activity across the APAC region.
- Facilitate completion, review, and challenge of third-party and intercompany lifecycle documentation, including risk assessments, due diligence, criticality/materiality assessments, service reviews, and ongoing monitoring requirements.
- Help ensure third-party risk management activities are completed in line with CIBC requirements, the Third Party Risk Management program, and applicable regional regulatory expectations across APAC.
- Support regulatory change implementation, contract uplift activity, senior management reporting, and continuous improvement of regional third-party risk and intercompany services frameworks.
- Act as a regional TPGO point of contact for assigned APAC third-party and intercompany arrangements, supporting business owners, relationship managers, vendors, and internal stakeholders through the third-party lifecycle.
- Administer and maintain appropriate third-party risk management tooling and records, ensuring system-held information, dashboards, and reporting are accurate, complete, and current.
- Coordinate completion and review of third-party risk assessments, due diligence, regional criticality/materiality determinations, concentration risk reviews, exit planning, and ongoing monitoring activities.
- Support service review governance, including review of KPIs, service performance information, issues, actions, escalation themes, and remediation progress.
- Assist with identification of third-party and intercompany arrangements requiring regulatory or contractual uplift, working with Enterprise TPGO, Procurement, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Technology, and business owners.
- Consolidate and analyse third-party risk data for regional governance forums, senior management updates, regulatory responses, and other management reporting requirements.
- Support the ongoing development and continuous improvement of regional third-party risk management procedures, standards, playbooks, and control documentation.
- Provide practical guidance to business owners and stakeholders on their responsibilities under the TPRM program and applicable APAC regulatory expectations.
- Facilitate meetings with third parties, business owners, and internal stakeholders to coordinate actions, track deliverables, and support effective governance.
- Maintain awareness of regional regulatory developments impacting third-party risk, outsourcing, operational resilience, and intercompany services, and support implementation of required changes.
Requirements
- Experience in third-party risk management, vendor management, outsourcing governance, operational risk, procurement, compliance, or a related control function, preferably within financial services.
- Understanding of third-party lifecycle activities, including intake, risk assessment, due diligence, contracting, ongoing monitoring, service reviews, issue management, renewal, and termination.
- Knowledge of regional regulatory expectations for third-party risk, outsourcing, operational resilience, and intercompany arrangements, with experience supporting APAC jurisdictions desirable.
- Strong analytical, conceptual thinking, and problem-solving capability, with the ability to identify risks, assess impacts, and recommend practical solutions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear governance updates, management reporting, and stakeholder communications.
- Ability to influence and collaborate across functions, geographies, and levels of seniority, including with stakeholders in different time zones.
- Highly organised, able to work independently, manage priorities, and support multiple concurrent activities under time-sensitive conditions.
- Technologically adept, including proficiency in Microsoft Office and third-party risk management, procurement, or workflow tools such as Archer or equivalent platforms.
- Must be legally eligible to work at the specified location(s) and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.
Skills
- Third-party risk management
- Vendor management
- Outsourcing governance
- Operational risk
- Procurement
- Compliance
- Risk assessments
- Due diligence
- Contracting
- Ongoing monitoring
- Service reviews
- Issue management
- Renewal
- Termination
- APAC regulatory expectations
- Analytical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Stakeholder management
- Collaboration
- Time management
- Microsoft Office
- Archer
- Budgeting
- Compliance Requirements
- Decision Making
- Identifying Risks
- Management Reporting
- Operational Risks
- Organizational Processes
- Prioritization
- Risk Governance
- Workflow Process
Location
- London
Work Type
- Regular
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
About the Company
- We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world.
- At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work.
- Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.
- At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them.
- Our ability to create value for all CIBC stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Trust, Teamwork and Accountability.
- Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities - a place where you can excel.
- Every day, our 48,000 employees help our clients achieve their financial goals, because what matters to our clients, matters to us.
Equal Opportunity
- CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong.
- We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience.
- If you need accommodation, please contact Mailbox.careers-carrieres@cibc.com
