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Current Leadership Position
Manager, Loan Review
BMO Financial Group · June 2026 – Present · 5 mos
Key Accountabilities & Strategic Impact
- Lead the Loan Review program for the BrokerEdge portfolio, providing independent oversight of lending quality, policy adherence, and control effectiveness across broker-originated files.
- Manage and coach a team of analysts, strengthening capability, consistency, and depth of risk assessment across broker channel reviews.
- Own end-to-end review execution, delivering clear, data-driven insights on emerging risks, control gaps, and portfolio trends to senior leadership.
- Act as a subject matter expert on broker channel governance, providing credible challenge on complex deals, exception handling, and high-risk scenarios.
- Support enterprise Loan Review activities across BMO proprietary portfolios, contributing to audit execution, regulatory readiness (OSFI, Corporate Audit), and consistent application of review standards.
- Transitioned the BrokerEdge review program from initial pilot into permanent business-as-usual (BAU) production, expanding monthly coverage by 233% (from 30 to 100 full-file reviews) and authoring executive insights for the BrokerEdge Risk Forum deck.
- Served as Agentic Loan Review Lead, designing the testing workflow and partnering with Technology to refine AI instructions and reduce question-level false positives ahead of pilot deployment.
- Escalated systemic appraisal gaps on Power of Sale properties that directly drove a formal policy update, supported Corporate Audit fieldwork, and modernized the Loan Review SOP with a new Agentic Loan Review governance section.
Core Strengths & Disciplines
Enterprise risk, governance & lending proficiencies
11+ Yrs
Banking Tenure
2nd Line
Risk Oversight
B-20 / OSFI
Audit Readiness
QA Rigor
BrokerEdge Lead
Governance & Oversight
5 Domains
Loan Review Leadership & BrokerEdge Portfolio Ownership
1st & 2nd Line of Defence Oversight & Governance
Broker Channel Governance & Regulatory Expertise (B-20)
Lending Quality, Governance & Audit Readiness
Audit & Regulatory Engagement (OSFI, Corporate Audit)
Leadership & Analytics
5 Domains
People Leadership & Team Capability Uplift
Risk Insights, Thematic Analysis & Executive Reporting
Stakeholder Influence across Business, Risk & Audit
Issues Management, Remediation & Sustainment Strategy
Change Management & Continuous Improvement
Credentials & Education
Degrees, securities licensing, professional certifications & continuous education
BA Economics
Academic Degree
CSI · IFIC · AMA
Licensing & Certs
BMO Agile Lead
Executive Track
11 Core Tools
Banking Systems
Formal University Degree
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics
University of Guyana · Department of Economics
Undergraduate Degree
Securities & Professional Certifications
IFIC Member (Mutual Funds)
Canadian Securities Institute (CSI)
Automation Business Analysis
Coursera / UiPath / IIBA Certified
Business Management – Sales & Marketing
American Management Association (AMA)
Apprenticeship Program
Government of Canada
Leadership, Agile & Continuous Ops
Agile For All
BMO Financial Group
Leadership Development Journey
BMO Leadership Excellence Program
Introduction to Psychology
Behavioral & Organizational Dynamics
IT for Customer Service
Client Systems & Technology Ops
Enterprise Banking Systems & Adjudication Platforms
11 Tier-1 PlatformsCore Banking, Account Servicing & Mortgage Origination
Tier-1 core transactional banking, customer records & lending underwriting
Merlin (Core Banking Platform)
CCAPS (Credit Adjudication & Processing)
MDIF (Mortgage Document & Imaging Flow)
CFS (Customer Financial Services System)
Appraisal Review, Workflow Triage & Issue Tracking
Collateral valuation audit, defect escalation pipelines & broker management
Optimizer (Review Workflow Engine)
TORIC (Appraisal & Collateral Review)
BMA (Broker Management Application)
Jira (Defect Tracking & Remediation Workflow)
Audit Sampling, Analytics & Executive Reporting
Complex workbook modeling, exception rate dashboards & governance deck prep
Advanced Excel (Modeling / XLOOKUP / Pivot)
MS Office 365 Enterprise Suite
Audit Sample Workpapers & Defect Logs
Corporate Recognitions
Honors for risk governance & leadership excellence at BMO
Pinnacle Annual Recognition
BMO Ambition 2025 Annual Award
Enterprise-wide recognition for exemplary strategic leadership, risk governance culture & measurable impact across BMO Financial Group.
Quarterly Recognition Series
8× Honoree (2016 – 2025)
Latest Honor
BMO Q1 2025 Grand Ovation
Quarterly Excellence
Spotlight Award Honors:
March 2021
June 2020
May 2019
June 2017
November 2016
September 2016
March 2016