Senior Manager, Risk Advisory

Metrolinx is connecting communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Metrolinx operates GO Transit and UP Express, as well as the PRESTO fare payment system. We are also building new and improved rapid transit, including GO Expansion, Light Rail Transit routes, and major expansions to Toronto’s subway system, to get people where they need to go, better, faster and easier. Metrolinx is an agency of the Government of Ontario.

At Metrolinx, equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values of serving with passion, thinking forward and playing as a team.

The Enterprise Risk Management team is seeking a Senior Manager, Risk Advisory for a 12-month contract to strengthen risk-informed decisions across Metrolinx. Combining strategic problem solving and analysis, the role helps leaders assess threats and opportunities, challenge assumptions and evaluate trade-offs. The Senior Manager advances risk analytics, intelligence and enterprise reporting, translating quantified exposure into actionable insights for senior management while supporting risk appetite, escalation and effective responses.

Business leaders retain ownership of risks and decisions.

• Strategic advisory: Leads cross-functional, hypothesis-driven engagements to frame strategic questions, test assumptions and evaluate options. Recommends actions that balance strategic outcomes, public value and residual risk, including the consequences of delay or inaction.

• Risk quantification: Advises leaders early in planning, investment and operational change, before commitments become difficult to reverse. Uses risk assessments, quantitative models, and scenario and sensitivity analysis to estimate likelihood and financial, schedule, service and other impacts, comparing exposure under alternative decisions and responses.

• Builds divisional risk capability through coaching, practical tools and targeted learning, integrating risk thinking into existing planning, performance and governance processes while maintaining clear business ownership of risks, responses and decisions.

• Risk intelligence
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  Partners with senior stakeholders to strengthen risk analytics, combining business knowledge, external developments, financial and operational data, and performance trends. Develops metrics, leading indicators, thresholds and dashboards that identify emerging risks, explain exposure changes and inform priorities.

• Enterprise exposure: Works with business units, specialist risk groups and control functions to assess shared drivers, dependencies and cumulative exposure across projects, programs and operations. Quantifies enterprise exposure where supportable, accounting for overlapping impacts and correlations, and recommends coordinated responses and escalation without assuming business ownership.

• Provides objective challenge on risk assessments, supporting evidence, key assumptions, response strategies and proposed risk acceptance. Helps leaders apply approved risk appetite, tolerances and delegated authorities, identifying evidence gaps and exposures requiring leadership direction.

• Supports and challenges business-owned response plans, assessing whether controls, contingencies and actions are feasible, adequately resourced and reducing exposure. Works with owners to establish meaningful indicators and decision triggers, monitor effectiveness and elevate material gaps, while retaining business accountability for implementation.

• Reporting and insight
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  Strengthens senior-management reporting and prepares decision-ready executive and Board advice through established governance. Uses quantified estimates, metrics and visualizations to explain exposure magnitude, concentration, trends…