Head of Business Readiness North America

About the Role

As Head of Business Readiness North America you will lead the strategic function responsible for preparing financial operations teams to effectively absorb and sustain change across Canadian and U.S. markets. Immediate expertise in Canadian financial operations and regulatory environments is highly valued as this role plays a critical part in ensuring readiness across both Canadian and U.S. jurisdictions.

This role sits at the intersection of client delivery operations and product/platform transformation. Youll oversee readiness efforts across a broad range of initiatives from evolving client propositions to full platform implementation and enhanced service outsourcing while also driving readiness tied to platform modernization operational transformation and regulatory preparedness to ensure seamless adoption and sustained resilience.

Leading a growing team of specialists youll be accountable for designing the readiness strategy embedding scalable processes aligning cross-functional stakeholders and championing a culture of proactive people-centered change across North American financial operations.

Your leadership will be instrumental in delivering a best-in-class experience for our clients and their customers while enabling operational teams to thrive in a dynamic and evolving environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Business Readiness Function: Define and own the strategy for business readiness across all North American transformation programs ensuring integration with delivery roadmaps and operational needs.

• Client Centric: Actively engage with clients throughout the change lifecycle to understand their needs communicate impacts and co-create solutions that support seamless adoption and long-term success.

• Team Leadership: Manage coach and develop a high-performing global team.

• Stakeholder Alignment: Serve as the primary liaison between Operations Program Management Client Delivery Product Compliance and Technology teams to ensure readiness activities are aligned with business objectives and client expectations.

• Operational Impact & Change Planning: Oversee impact assessments business process reviews and readiness risk mitigation plans for all initiatives.

• Process Design & Documentation: Ensure that updated workflows training and procedures are created validated and adopted in a timely and compliant manner.

• Testing & Go-Live Readiness: Partner with delivery teams to ensure operational requirements are factored into UAT plans go-live strategies and post-launch stabilization activities.

• Change Governance: Establish reporting and governance frameworks for readiness execution including escalation protocols readiness gates and executive reporting.

• Cross-Border Compliance Awareness: Ensure change initiatives account for relevant regulatory requirements across jurisdictions (e.g. SEC CSA IIROC FINRA).

• Culture Building: Promote a culture of operational excellence continuous improvement and change ownership across the organization.

Qualifications

• 1015 years of experience in financial operations change management or program delivery within fintech banking capital markets or a similar environment.

• Proven success in leading large-scale readiness and transformation programs ideally across multiple jurisdictions (Canada and U.S.).

• Proven experience navigating Canadian financial services environments including regulatory frameworks and client servicing models is highly valued.

• Deep understanding of North American financial operations including post-trade processes regulatory frameworks (e.g. T1 IIROC CSA SEC) and client servicing models.

• Strong experience translating client regulatory and business requirements into operational processes and tooling.

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams navigate complex stakeholder environments and drive outcomes in matrixed organizations.

• Excellent strategic analytical and communication skills with comfort presenting to executive stakeholders.

• Experience working in or with agile/hybrid delivery environments and enterprise change frameworks.

• Prior leadership in fintech or technology-enabled financial services is a strong asset.

What FNZ offers:

• A competitive base salary bonus and paid time off.

• FNZ will match pension plan contributions at 150%up to 4% total Employee Contribution.

• Employer-paid medical dental and vision insurance and more.

• We are mission-led - work at the heart of a purpose-led organization where you can be proud of the impact you make every day. Where youll transform the way over 20 million people invest making wealth management more accessible sustainable and transparent to more people.

• Learning & development Placing emphasis on a willingness to learn to think differently to be creative and to help drive innovation.

• Be part of a highly successful rapidly growing Pre-IPO global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the worlds largest companies;

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About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealths growth platform to help. We provide a global end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with the worlds leading financial institutions with over US$2.2 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).

Together with our clients we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.