Managing Director - Insider Threat Program (Chicago)

Leads the Bank’s enterprise insider threat program, defining strategy, governance, and operating model to proactively identify, assess, mitigate, and prevent insider-driven risk. Establishes a risk-based approach to insider threat, strengthening the Bank’s ability to anticipate emerging threats, close control gaps, and enhance operational resilience. Maintains a forward-looking view of emerging insider risks, including employee-enabled fraud, credential misuse, data exfiltration, collusion, third-party insider risk, and cyber-enabled activity. The insider threat program is a centralized program requiring strict governance and confidentiality, with only involving stakeholders on a need-to-know basis in a controlled escalation environment.

Strategy & Operating Model

• Defines and leads the enterprise insider threat strategy and long-term roadmap.

• Builds a consistent global framework aligned to regulatory, legal, privacy and labor requirements; regulatory first design.

• Establishes governance structures, escalation protocols, and decision-making forums.

• Matures capabilities from reactive investigations to proactive, intelligence-led prevention.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Integration

• Partners across Cybersecurity, Fraud, Financial Crimes, Corporate Security, Operations, Legal, Global Investigations, Risk, Privacy, and Human Resources.

• Integrates insider threat capabilities across systems, platforms, and control environments.

• Establishes clear routines for collaboration, escalation, and coordinated response.

• Promotes a culture of proactive risk identification and responsible escalation.

Data, Analytics & Intelligence

• Develops and optimizes insider threat analytics (i.e., user and entity behavior analytics), tools, and capabilities to support scalable, intelligence-driven risk detection.

• Builds a consolidated insider threat intelligence capability integrating cyber, fraud, financial crime, HR, and investigative signals (data fusion).

• Delivers executive-level reporting and insights on insider threat posture, emerging risks, significant cases, control effectiveness, and remediation progress.

• Leverages data, analytics, and risk indicators to inform strategy, prioritization, and investment decisions.

Detection, Investigation & Response

• Owns the end-to-end insider threat control framework, including prevention rules, risk-based detection models, behavioral analytics, investigative protocols, case management standards, and escalation processes.

• Embeds privacy-by-design and ethical monitoring practices, ensuring transparency, proportionality, and protection of employee dignity.

• Develops and enhances intelligence-led detection capabilities and response frameworks to enable proactive risk identification and mitigation.

• Partners with Global Investigations to ensure that consistent triage, investigation, escalation, and resolution related to Insider threat occurs across the enterprise.

• Defines standards for response actions ensuring timeliness, proportionality, governance, and defensibility.

• Participates in complex, high-risk investigations involving employees, contractors, third parties, cyber events, fraud activity, and control breaches, as required partnering with the Global Investigations team.

Governance, Risk & Regulatory Oversight

• Identifies systemic control gaps and drives remediation across identity and access management, privileged access, data protection, fraud controls, vendor access, and critical operations.

• Oversees adherence to the Bank’s Risk Appetite Framework, ensuring insider threat risks are managed within defined tolerances.

• Defines and manages key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and insider threat risk appetite.

• Supports regulatory exams, audits, and governance reviews, ensuring readiness and effective response across cyber risk, fraud, conduct risk, and operational resilience.

Leadership & Culture

• Within the mandate of this role, promotes and supports the Bank’s risk culture including ensuring employees understand their accountabilities for risk-taking activities, promoting an environment of open communication and effective challenge, and establishing the “tone from the top” through leading by example.

• Complies with the Bank’s Risk Appetite framework and ensures risk-taking activities remain within agreed limits and comply with all regulatory requirements.

• Role models driving simplicity and productivity enhancements for optimization across groups, driving continuous improvement on key measures.

• Activates our winning culture, aligned with Purpose. Ignites engagement by aligning our culture to our strategy and fueling exceptional execution.

• Fosters an inclusive environment for all employees by eliminating barriers to inclusion.

• Develops leaders, plans for succession, and fosters a high-performance culture.

• Drives top talent acquisition and retention, developing organizational capabilities to drive competitive advantage.

• Leads and mentors a team with diverse risk and business experience, skills, and orientation.

• Leads, promotes, and reinforces the Bank’s Ambition; personally, role models One Bank leadership; drives sustainable improvements in customer loyalty and business growth; adheres and supports enterprise customer experience and brand standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in a global systemically important bank (GSIB), large financial institution, intelligence agency, law enforcement, military, or critical infrastructure environment.

• Experience in leading enterprise-side or global risk or security programs.

• Proven track record building or transforming insider threat, cyber, fraud, or security capabilities.

• Deep experience managing complex investigations involving employees, contractors, third parties, cyber incidents, fraud activity, or data misuse.

• Strong knowledge in one or more areas: insider threat, cybersecurity, fraud, financial crime, investigations, operational risk, or enterprise security.

• Understanding of banking operations, conduct risk, and financial crime typologies.

• Knowledge of regulatory expectations related to cyber, fraud, and operational resilience.

• Working knowledge of analytics, detection models, and insider threat tools.

• Ability to lead global distributed teams and build multidisciplinary capabilities.

• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

• High judgment and discretion in handling sensitive matters.

• Ability to translate complete risk signals into clear, actionable insights.

• Preferred professional certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), or relevant investigations/intelligence credentials.

• Background in law enforcement, intelligence, or national security organizations (e.g., federal agencies or equivalent). Established external network across industry, law enforcement, and intelligence communities.

Please note: The position is targeted at a base range between $225K USD and $300K USD

Salary:

Pay Type:

Salaried

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit:

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