Senior Credit Risk Manager-0005PO
Posting Date:
Apr 9, 2026, 1:27:59 PM
Primary Location:
Ontario-Ottawa
Job Type:
Permanent
Schedule:
Full-time
Description
Application deadline: April 23nd, 2026
Join the EDC Team!
At EDC, we support Canadian businesses to succeed globally. We provide the financial tools and expertise they need to explore new markets, reduce risks, all towards the goal of making Canada and the world better through trade.
Position: Senior Credit Risk Manager (4 vacancies)#LI-Hybrid
Employment Type: Permanent
Compensation Details:
- Credit Adjudication 19: Salaries typically range from $112,006 to $149,341 annually, based on qualifications and experiences, plus a performance-based incentive.
- Credit Adjudication 20: Salaries typically range from $129,928 to $173,235 annually, based on qualifications and experience, plus a performance-based incentive.
Location:
- Export Development Canada operates in a hybrid work environment, with a current requirement of twoin-office days per week, increasing to three days per week in September 2026 (subject to change).
- This role can be performed from EDC’s headquarters in Ottawa
- Relocation assistance is available for candidates who meet the eligibility criteria.
About EDC:
At Export Development Canada (EDC), we empower Canadian businesses to succeed globally. As a financial Crown corporation, we offer innovative financial solutions and expert insights to help businesses explore new markets, mitigate risks, and achieve growth.
Why Join EDC?
- Comprehensive Benefits: EDC offers a competitive compensation & benefits package, work-life balance, & the opportunity to help make Canada and the world better through trade.
- Work-Life Balance: EDC offers a competitive compensation package & work-life balance. We have hybrid work options, 3 to 4 weeks paid vacation, a corporate closure period, summer early Friday’s & no meeting Fridays.
- Professional Development: Take advantage of our continuous learning opportunities, including training programs, workshops and language training.
- Inclusive Culture: Be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace that champions employment equity & values diversity of ideas, strengths, & backgrounds to succeed.
- Wellness Programs: Access to wellness initiatives, mental health support, and fitness programs to keep you healthy and happy.
- Community Engagement: Participate in volunteer opportunities and give back to the community through our various social responsibility programs.
Team Overview:
EDC is seeking a credit risk professional to join our Risk Management Office. The Risk Management Office (“RMO”) plays a central role in adjudicating, authorizing, and overseeing credit and financial risks within the Financing, Insurance, and Investments programs at EDC. Reporting to the Director, Risk Management Office, this position focuses primarily on EDC’s Financing program and offers an opportunity to a qualified individual with an aptitude for strong financial, credit and non-credit assessment, and portfolio analysis skills.
The RMO team has authority and oversight for over $55 billion in financing and investment exposures and over $65 billion in insurance and guarantee exposures. Through regular interaction with business teams and other stakeholders, the successful candidate will play an important role in upholding EDC’s risk management standards as well as its alignment to EDC's risk appetite.
What you will be doing:
- Provides independent review, assessment, and authorization of complex transaction proposals and asset management activities, with due regard to credit and other transaction risks, portfolio implications, EDC’s strategic priorities, policy issues, and commercial requirements across various product lines.
- Contributes to portfolio oversight, while ensuring the identification, monitoring and reporting of risks, as well as compliance of EDC’s risk management policies.
- Authorize decisions or recommendations for new transactions and asset management activities made with thorough consideration to credit risk, non-credit risks, policy compliance, EDC risk appetite and strategy.
- Independent challenge function performed objectively and tailored to the risk.
- Assess the risk analysis prepared by relevant parties with respect to transactions as well as ongoing credit surveillance and risk quantification activities.
- Opine on the quality of risk mitigants including an understanding of the unique characteristics of specific EDC product lines or industrial sectors.
- Work collaboratively with the line of business, RMO and other stakeholders/subject matter experts to deliver a high-quality service and outcomes.
- Delivery of timely responses within the earlier of customer deadlines or established SLAs.
- Actively seek out and drive the continuous improvement of RMO processes and of EDC’s risk management governance.
- Follow relevant Policies, Standards, Guidelines, Procedures, and Job Aids, established b