Explore career opportunities at OSFI
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) invites talented professionals to contribute their expertise, insights, and perspectives in support of the stability and resilience of Canada’s financial system.
Submitting your application
Candidates must submit their job application for all OSFI positions through our official Workday career portal. Prior to applying, you will be required to create a Workday account.
Creating an account will enable you to:
- Set up customized job alerts based on your interests
- Submit a job application
- Monitor the status of your submitted job applications
We strongly encourage applicants to self-identify if they belong to an employment equity group, as OSFI is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. Learn more in our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy.
Students: Discover your future at OSFI
Looking to kick-start your career? OSFI participates in the Federal Student Work Experience Program and Co-Operative Education opportunities. These programs provide a strong foundation for a career built on purpose, passion and potential. Visit our career portal and subscribe to job alerts to stay informed about upcoming opportunities.
OSFI success factors
Our mission is to strengthen public confidence in Canada’s financial system. To deliver on this, we rely on three critical success factors — grit, urgency, and integrity — which shape our culture and guide how we work.
- Grit
- Having the courage to persevere, the determination to keep going when the going gets tough, and a can-do attitude no matter what.
- Adapting when things don’t go as planned and use setbacks as stepping stones to success.
- Viewing failure as an opportunity to learn and grow while recognizing and celebrating small victories along the way.
- Urgency
- Being alert to what’s going on and being proactive in shedding early light on what may become a problem later.
- Acting with clarity and purpose
- Relentlessly eliminating low-priority items, or distractions and identifying and removing obstacles quickly.
- Identifying sources of complacency and have the will to take whatever action is necessary to create urgency.
- Integrity
- Upholding our shared values and ethics in our actions and decisions.
- Follow the spirit and letter of OSFI’s Conflict of Interest Policy.
- Keeping our promises and commitments to each other.
- Doing the right thing, even when it’s difficult.
- Being open and forthcoming in our communications, share relevant information and important details promptly, even when it’s bad news.
OSFI’s core competencies
Achieving success begins with strategically aligning individuals to roles that best suit their strengths. Accordingly, we seek candidates who exemplify the following core competencies.
- Collaboration
- Sharing a community mindset
- Promoting cohesion, curiosity and acceptance rather than competition
- Breaking down barriers to achieve common objectives
- Innovation
- Being willing to take a creative approach to problems and adapt to changing circumstances with comfort
- Going beyond the conventional
- Creating psychological safety
- Promoting experimentation, learning, taking risks, and challenging the status quo
- Transparency
- Being clear and honest in communications about actions and decisions
- Being open when interacting with others, acting with personal, behavioural, and professional integrity, humility, and building trust
- Growth and Development
- Being committed to continuously learning and developing yourself and others
- Taking initiative to recognize strengths and developmental needs and improving them accordingly
- Critical Thinking
- Gathering and evaluating data to guide decision-making
- Interpreting, challenging, and analyzing information and trends to arrive at sound conclusions
- Results Orientation
- Taking personal responsibility to reach or exceed goals or outcomes
- Demonstrating a sense of urgency, ownership for results and consistently achieving results
- Interpersonal Communication
- Communicating ideas clearly and with understanding and impact
- Attempting to understand others’ perspectives
- Respecting diversity of thought and cultural diversity
- Actively listening
- Seeking to understand
- Inclusion
- Fostering a psychologically and physically safe environment
- Promoting diversity, equity, and all-inclusive participation
- Adapting to individual, societal, or cultural cues
- Leading People (for managers and executives)
- Inspiring and motivating the people you lead towards a shared vision, common purpose and direction
- Leading by example
- Monitoring performance and providing constructive feedback that encourages and enables performance excellence