Business Consultant â GAM Digital Technology

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• Job Description

  As part of our ambition to becoming a Digital First organization BMO Global Asset Management (GAM) has been undergoing a transformation to modernize our digital capabilities and engagement. The Business Consultant role would become an integral part of the recently established GAM Digital Technology Team. This persistent team is focused on driving key GAM innovation and digital initiatives in an agile iterative environment delivering new and updated products faster to market reducing delays by empowering teams simplifying decision making facilitating quick adoption reducing manual processes and increasing automation. Working closely with Business Product Owner the BC role would liaise with stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities and to recommend solutions to enable the achievement of organizational goals. The BC would build exceptional relationships with other business partners and internal stakeholders ensuring the requirements map to a real business need are approved by all relevant stakeholders and meet essential quality standards. BC would actively participate in reviews or inspections in collaboration with the agile team to ensure the quality of work products. This individual will be a key member of the agile persistent development team and will work closely with GAM product stakeholders to understand their business needs and goals.

  Specific Industry Knowledge

• Strong understanding of investment products (Mutual Funds ETFs CDRs alternative funds etc.) and related processes.
• Digital and/or banking experience (especially Global Asset Management) is considered a strong asset.
• Understanding of agile framework and of experience working in agile IT teams.

• Project/Program engagement

• Acts as the subject matter expert for internal/external stakeholders.
• Facilitates discussions and follows a disciplined approach to plan elicit analyze document communicate and manage business requirements with stakeholders; applies a variety of elicitation techniques to probe challenge and understand requirements.
• Breaks down strategic problems and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Collaborates with various stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities to facilitate the organizations goals by understanding business vision objectives and key performance indicators.
• Acts as a consultant to business partners in collaboration with the project team in strategy and planning sessions (e.g. annual and multi-year plans) reviews or inspections to ensure the quality of work products.
• Aligns technology requirements and solutions to a real business need meets essential quality standards and ensures approval by all relevant stakeholders.
• Assesses the quality of supporting documentation including solution architecture documents technical design documents test strategy document documents to ensure proper analysis supports recommendations or demonstrate continued alignment to strategic objectives.
• Collaborates closely with product owner to refine and prioritize the product backlog ensuring user stories and acceptance criteria accurately reflect business objectives. Also works closely with members of the agile squad business and technology teams throughout the software development life cycle to ensure solutions align with business needs and participates in system testing UAT and validation of new features or enhancements.
• Promotes new processes and methodologies emerging technologies and agile way of working.

• Strategic & Analytical Leadership

• Leading problem resolution and conducting root-cause analysis for complex issues.
• Thought leadership in tech trends regulatory changes and emerging technologies.
• You act like an owner: You thrive when you are empowered to take the lead go above and beyond and deliver results. Customers come first.
• You embrace and champion change: You will continuously evolve your thinking approach and the way you work in order to deliver your best and exceed our clients expectations.

• Collaboration and Communication

• Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Communicates and engages across stakeholder groups during construction and delivery of solutions.
• Communicates technical strategies and changes clearly to both technical teams and business groups.

• Hybrid work arrangement: The candidate is expected to work on-site at our downtown Toronto ON location at least 2 days a week with occasional additional day(s) as required.

  Qualifications

• 7 years of relevant experience preferably within wealth management asset management or investment operations and a post-secondary degree in business finance and/or computer science.
• Expert: Ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Expert: Agile methodologies and tools (Scrum JIRA Confluence SharePoint).
• Expert: Ability to write clear and concise user stories acceptance criteria and process flows.
• Expert: Ability to analyze complex data and provide actionable insight to help drive business decisions
• Expert: Business strategy and assessments (i.e. feasibility studies business cases and/or cost/benefit project sizing and costing and current state analysis/needs assessments).
• Expert: Highly effective communicator. Excellent listening and communication skills with proficiency in English (French is a bonus).
• Expert: Collaboration & teamwork skills with a focus on cross-group collaboration.

• Soft Skills/Leadership Skills

• Ownership mindset strong analytical capabilities and a passion for problem-solving and adapting to change.
• Bold and accountable leader and mentor; passionate about technology innovative and comfortable to stand out.
• Demonstrates transparency and willingness to share knowledge and best practices.
• Displays acumen with technical concepts and business/industry knowledge with a strong desire for continuous learning.
• Can-do attitude. Persists in driving towards the end goal by self and leading the team.
• Awareness of critical path amidst changing priorities.
• Ability to work under pressure manage ambiguity and tight deadlines.
• Willingness to ask questions challenge the process and seek out answers.
• Ability to assimilate lots of detailed information effectively.
• Works independently with great resourcefulness and little guidance and can work with ambiguity.

The above represents BMO Financial Groups 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 Groups expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Groups 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: Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting positive change for our customers our communities and our people. By working together innovating and pushing boundaries we transform lives and businesses and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued respected and heard and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one for yourself and our customers. Well support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching to manager support and network-building opportunities well help you gain valuable experience and broaden your skillset.

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