About the Role
The Senior Analyst, Regulatory Relations supports the Bank’s regulatory engagements, particularly with the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI). This role involves preparing regulatory materials, coordinating responses, tracking commitments, and supporting internal governance for accurate and controlled regulatory interactions. It is key to maintaining discipline, supervisory readiness, and auditability in regulator-related activities, ensuring high-quality interactions.
Responsibilities
- Support the coordination of regulatory communications, including data requests, supervisory letters, information packages, and follow-up responses.
- Draft regulatory correspondence and coordinate reviews by key stakeholders and senior management.
- Maintain accurate records of regulator interactions, submissions, and supervisory communications.
- Support and facilitate regulatory reviews, meetings, and collection of evidence and feedback.
- Track supervisory findings, recommendations, and commitments in centralized logs or issue-tracking tools.
- Monitor remediation milestones, evidence submission timelines, and dependencies across business and control functions.
- Escalate risks of slippage or gaps in evidence to Risk and senior management.
- Support the preparation of OSFI-related materials, including supervisory meeting decks, briefing notes, background materials, response packages, and management summaries.
- Review internal documentation for consistency with OSFI expectations and prior submissions.
- Liaise with Risk, Compliance, Finance, Technology, Operations, Legal, and Internal Audit to gather inputs for OSFI requests.
- Ensure internal contributions are aligned, complete, internally consistent, and delivered within required timelines.
- Support internal readiness activities for OSFI exams, thematic reviews, and supervisory assessments.
- Monitor regulatory guidance, advisories, and supervisory communications for relevance to the Bank.
- Assist in summarizing emerging regulatory themes for internal distribution.
- Assist in preparing management and Committee reporting related to regulatory engagements, supervisory issues, and remediation status.
- Support documentation of supervisory outcomes for Senior Management, Board and Committee awareness.
- Maintain records of regulatory activity.
- Support engagements with other regulatory bodies as required.
- Provide adhoc Enterprise Risk Management workflow and reporting support as required.
Requirements
- 4–7 years of experience in enterprise risk management, regulatory affairs, compliance, or regulator support roles.
- Experience working within an OSFI-regulated financial institution or working directly with federal financial regulators.
- Ability to manage multiple regulatory deliverables under tight timelines.
- Proficiency with MS Office (Powerpoint, Excel, Sharepoint, Teams…etc).
- Experience with GRC Platforms (ie. Resolver, ServiceNow), designing workflows.
- Experience leveraging AI tools to support and enhance workflows.
- Exposure to regulatory exams, internal audits, or issue remediation tracking.
- Strong facilitation, coordination and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong communications skills and organizational awareness.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and deliver high quality outputs.
- Must successfully pass a criminal background check, credit check, and validation of work experience.
Skills
- MS Office (Powerpoint, Excel, Sharepoint, Teams)
- GRC Platforms (Resolver, ServiceNow)
- AI tools
- Facilitation
- Coordination
- Stakeholder management
- Communications
- Organizational awareness
- Influencing stakeholders
- High quality output delivery
Location
- London
- Montreal
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Undergraduate degree is an asset
Salary/Compensations
- $77,000 - $90,000 per year
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Annual incentive bonus tied to performance
- Robust health and dental coverage through Manulife
- Virtual healthcare through Dialogue
- Group Retirement Savings Plan with up to 7% employer match
- Discounts from top retailers via WorkPerks
- Location-based perks (gym memberships, Toronto Bike Share)
- Gym access at London and Montreal offices
- Education Assistance Program
- Fairstone Academy for training and skill development
- Parental leave top-up program
- One paid volunteer day
About the Company
- Fairstone Bank and its family of brands (Home Trust Company, Home Bank, Oaken Financial, Fairstone, EdenPark, Fig) are united in delivering innovative, accessible, and reliable financial solutions.
- Together, they are the leading alternative lending bank in Canada, offering a diverse suite of products including mortgages, consumer deposits, credit cards, retail and automobile financing, personal loans, and digital lending.
- Backed by nearly a century of lending experience through its legacy companies, Fairstone Bank is proud to be Canada’s leading alternative lending bank.
Equal Opportunity
- Fairstone is an equal opportunity employer.
- Will make reasonable accommodations to respond to the needs of people with disabilities.
- Individuals who view themselves as Aboriginals, members of visible minorities, and disabled are encouraged to apply in confidence.
