Kimberley Spencer, Cpa Cma Cia

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Strategy, Risk, and Governance Financial Services Professional @ Sun Life Global Investments
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Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Canada
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About Kimberley Spencer, Cpa Cma Cia

Experienced Risk, Controls and Governance professional with 20 years working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Enterprise Risk Management, Controls and Internal Audit, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Operational Risk, and Strategic Risk Management. Strong finance professional with CPA and CIA from Institute of Internal Auditors. Strengths include risk assessment across rapidly changing regulatory control environments and collaborating with senior management to facilitate change across a wide range of complex issues and business divisions. Relevant experience includes: • Focus on complex regulations and alignment to the three lines of defense model including OSFI: E-21, E-13, B-10; FINTRAC and AUSTRAC Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF); and more recently OSC National Instruments regulations for mutual funds • Assess risk and control effectiveness within the business area, identify and prioritize opportunities to improve risk management, compliance and governance.• Global experience in the financial services industry including direct work engagements in Canada, Australia, USA, United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan)

Kimberley Spencer, Cpa Cma Cia's Current Company Details
Sun Life Global Investments

Sun Life Global Investments

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Kimberley Spencer, Cpa Cma Cia Work Experience Details
  • Sun Life Global Investments
    Director, Slgi Business Initiatives
    Sun Life Global Investments Jan 2024 - Present
    Toronto, Ontario, Ca
    -Develop, evolve and manage key elements of the management objectives and key results-Assess business impacts from larger organizational changes and initiatives-Assist SLGI leadership team are aligned to strategy, key messages and philosophies -Chair the SLGI Leadership meetings and prepare agendas that align to business strategies -Collaborate with Finance to proactively perform business management activities for the President, SLGI and VP Strategy including support of annual and longer term business planning cycle and provide quarterly reporting
  • Sun Life
    Director, Operational Risk - Investment Solutions
    Sun Life Jan 2021 - Jan 2024
    Oo
    •Operational Risk and Compliance: focusing on Enterprise Risk Management frameworks and compliance across complex business - mutual funds and insured wealth products (segregated funds, annuities & GICs) to comply with regulatory obligations balanced with meeting their business strategic priorities. •Risk Identification and Regulatory Compliance Management: facilitate, assess, identify gaps and mitigations through various enterprise risk and compliance programs and assessments including Risk and Control Self-Assessments , Fraud Risk Assessments , Regulatory Compliance Risk Assessments and AML/ATF Risk Assessments. This includes navigating enterprise risk and compliance requirements, identifying overlaps with enterprise requirements and regulations to gain efficiencies in risk and compliance programs to ensure they are risk based and fit for purpose. •Risk Committee Leadership: as the Chair and portfolio lead of Investment Solutions Risk & Compliance Committee, provide detailed reporting to provide senior leader oversight on key risk issues, compliance gaps, policy non-compliances, and regulatory change actions to BU leadership & governance teams.•Risk Trends: conduct root cause analysis on operational risk events, identify control breakdowns and control enhancements to prevent re-occurrence and analyze trends in risk issues• Collaboration with Second and Third lines of Defense: lead and support discussions between first line business, second (risk/compliance) and third (audit) lines of defense when identifying mitigations or remediation to meet enterprise and/or regulatory requirements for identified gaps and/or issues.•Risk Based Recommendations: synthesize risk review assessment outcomes to inform decision making and risk appetite discussions with 1st line business and 2nd line risk and compliance professionals.•Team Management: support and mentor a team of four high performing operational risk professionals
  • Sun Life
    Director - Individual Risk Management
    Sun Life Jun 2018 - Dec 2020
    Oo
    • Risk and Compliance Program Support and Training: lead enterprise risk and compliance programs and training for Risk and Control Risk Assessment (RCSA), Key Risk Identification and Reporting, Third Party Risk (including sub-advisor and vendor oversight), Business Continuity (as BCP co-ordinator for Individual business unit), and Records Management (Records Officer), AML Compliance Self-Assessments for all three retail business units (Insurance, Investments, Distribution) and Sun Life Financial Trust.• Business Resiliency Planning and Support: guided the senior leadership Crisis Management Team with robust contingency plans for emergency response planning, lead business continuity tabletop exercises and mock event call tree tests. All gaps identified resulted in appropriate actions taken in the event of a real crisis.
  • Ubs
    Director - Group Internal Audit Australia & New Zealand
    Ubs Oct 2008 - Mar 2018
    Zurich, Ch
    Senior member in the Group Internal Audit (GIA) function planning and executing audits within the Investment Bank (IB), Wealth Management, Global Asset Management, and Corporate Centre divisions. Key responsibilities and achievements include: • Leading, planning and executing the annual audit plan to assess the effectiveness of front-to-back internal controls across various divisions with a special focus on AML/CTF in trade and funding transactions. • Communicating results of audits and investigations to senior management through clear and concise audit issues and reports by presenting control breakdowns, root cause analysis and risk statements for management to effectively remediate issues and concerns.• Leading challenge sessions to discuss control break downs and gaps in compliance with regulatory obligations with senior management with the objective to maintain positive working relationships with key stakeholders. • Applying risk management methodologies to be an effective “Agent of Change” within UBS to provide guidance and support to senior management to bring the division back into risk tolerance for the firm. • Assessing key regulatory requirements to verify obligations are embedded into managements’ controls.• Managing large audit teams (up to 15) across locations for complex products, global processes and regulator jurisdictions requiring comprehension of regulator standards in each location, project management, and relationship management.• Challenging auditors to verify audit report statements are supported by adequate audit assessment results and that workpapers meet internal and regulatory (FED, FINMA etc) global minimum requirements. • Attending thought leadership forums including the 6th Annual Australian Fraud Summit (June 2017)• Utilizing various computer aided audit tools (CAATs) applications and platforms to analyze risk trends in the business including: Excel (advanced knowledge), Tableau Server, ACL.
  • Babcock & Brown
    Internal Audit Manager
    Babcock & Brown Mar 2007 - Aug 2008
    Us
    - Established a risk based internal audit methodology for a complex business model globally- Liaised with Group Risk and business/support units to identify and agree process and operational risks- Consulted on complex asset management and fund of funds structures in a leading asset management firm
  • Deloitte Australia
    Client Manager - Financial Services Industry Group
    Deloitte Australia Jan 2006 - Mar 2007
    Worldwide, Oo
    - Managed a team of staff on various projects including the end to end audit process involving development of audit plans, resource allocation and client billings- Presented audit findings to the client senior management team through risk based audit reports- Collaborated with several financial services clients such as Babcock & Brown (Operational Risk and Compliance), Perpetual (Unit Pricing), RBC Dexia (Unit Pricing), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) (SOX) and PMI (Operational Risk and Internal Audit)
  • Deloitte Australia
    Manager - Enterprise Risk
    Deloitte Australia Jun 2002 - Dec 2005
    Worldwide, Oo
    - Managed several teams for end to end internal audits for clients- Worked with several clients in the financial services industry including Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Manulife Financial, and The Economical Insurance Group- Lead audit manager for The Economical Insurance Group managing a team across different regions- Managed a team of four to six audit professionals in the United States for a SOX project for 12 months which included organising various site visits
  • Arthur Andersen Llp
    Risk Consultant
    Arthur Andersen Llp Sep 2001 - May 2002
    - Utilised Global Best Practices diagnostics to determine the root cause of problems as well as help the client improve business performance- Performed gap analysis through benchmarking processes to link functional goals through the dimensions of cost, quality and time

Kimberley Spencer, Cpa Cma Cia Skills

Investment Bank Audit Wealth Management Asset Management Investment Banking Internal Controls Enterprise Risk Management Risk Assessment Operational Risk Management Internal Audit Auditing Sarbanes Oxley Act Operational Risk Financial Services Risk Management Financial Risk

Kimberley Spencer, Cpa Cma Cia Education Details

  • Chartered Professional Accountants Of Canada (Cpa Canada)
    Chartered Professional Accountants Of Canada (Cpa Canada)
    Accounting And Business/Management
  • Institute Of Internal Auditors
    Institute Of Internal Auditors
    Certified Internal Auditor (Cia)
  • Society Of Management Accounts Of Ontario
    Society Of Management Accounts Of Ontario
    Management Accountant
  • University Of Waterloo
    University Of Waterloo
    Economics

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Kimberley Spencer, Cpa Cma Cia's current role is Strategy, Risk, and Governance Financial Services Professional.

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Kimberley Spencer, Cpa Cma Cia attended Chartered Professional Accountants Of Canada (Cpa Canada), Institute Of Internal Auditors, Society Of Management Accounts Of Ontario, University Of Waterloo.

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