Description
A career as an Associate Director, Business Process Integrator in the New Products and Activities team at National Bank Financial Markets means being at the heart of value delivery. This role involves being close to business sectors, understanding their strategic and operational realities, and contributing to the prioritization and implementation of initiatives, while fostering evolution and transformation.
In this role, you will support various business units and partners daily to define the health of their business capabilities, identify their priorities, and define and achieve their target architectures. You will have a direct impact on achieving objectives by ensuring an end-to-end review of implementation requirements, optimal prioritization of initiatives, and the detection of improvement opportunities, thereby contributing to the continuous evolution and transformation of the organization.
Your Job
- Assist the business line in preliminary analysis to determine the size of the initiative, impacts on various business capabilities, required developments, and dependencies.
- Lead implementation with financial markets partners by defining end-to-end operational and/or regulatory requirements, identifying risks, and strategies to mitigate them within a rigorous governance process.
- Ensure that the description of new products and activities, requirements and mitigation strategies, debts, and delivery status are clearly documented and rigorously updated.
- Contribute to the overall prioritization process, support the development of target architectures, determine and recommend deployment strategies considering benefits, risks, time to market, and priorities established by business lines.
- Provide advice on sequencing business opportunities and projects' start and align delivery programs.
- Support delivery teams in designing solutions and resolving issues promptly.
- Lead the review exercise of the health/maturity of business capabilities, analyze and provide recommendations in line with the business vision and strategy.
- Coordinate and support business unit cells to increase communication and common knowledge of end-to-end processes.
- Identify recurring and cross-cutting issues and propose implementation synergies to accelerate value delivery.
- Maintain the log of upcoming improvement initiatives, lead, or coordinate problem resolution, identify synergies with other business units, and ensure resolution aligns with the target state.
- Contribute to the overall performance of the team by supporting colleagues in solving complex problems, sharing knowledge and experiences, and especially helping team members when implementation deadlines require it.
Your Team
National Bank Financial Markets is a leading financial services firm offering investment banking services to a diverse clientele, including corporations, institutional clients, and governments. We have offices in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, London, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Paris. The New Products and Activities group is looking for an associate director to expand its team of passionate professionals in Montreal or Toronto.
This position reports to the Managing Director, New Products and Activities, in charge of the evolution/transformation. New Products and Activities is composed of about thirty talented and dedicated individuals. It stands out for its dynamism, agility, and knowledge of the activities of the Financial Markets sector and the sub-processes that support their activities.
Proximity to traders and risk management solution specialists, as well as the need to work with various highly specialized sectors of Financial Markets, allows for a comprehensive understanding of key processes and the ecosystem in which financial markets operate.
Our team of professionals is dedicated to delivering new products, activities, and initiatives to support Financial Markets’ business growth.
This position is based in Montreal or Toronto.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in a related field, as well as 7 to 10 years of relevant experience in financial markets or securities or custody.
- Good knowledge of financial markets activities, securities trading, or custody, including products, systems, data, processes, and regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of the securities financing value chain and business capabilities of settlements, market events management, and taxes is an asset.
- Ability to demonstrate leadership, autonomy, judgment, make connections, challenge the status quo, and be extremely comfortable with teamwork.
- Excellent analytical, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Comfort working in a high-pressure, ambiguous, and constantly changing environment to support a demanding professional clientele.
- Proactive, positive attitude, motivation, and commitment.
- Recognized competence in clear and concise communication, both orally and in writing, in French and English.
