Director, Data Scientist (Payments, Global Transactional Banking)

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What Youll Be Doing

CIBCs Payments business is an innovative vertical within the bank focused on delivering leading-edge solutions for corporate government and institutional clients. Our mission is to enable growth capital raising and investment across North America and key global financial centers positioning CIBC as the preferred Capital Markets banking partner.

To support this mandate you will help advance GTBs data and analytics capabilities in support of Payments and Capital Markets objectives enabling data-driven decision making across products services and client segments in Canada and globally.

Within Payments Global Transaction Banking (GTB) is a strategic and rapidly growing Capital Markets business encompassing Corporate Cash Management Correspondent Banking and Trade Finance teams.

Join GTB as a Director Data Scientist and make a meaningful impact for our clients.

As the first Data Scientist in our Payments GTB team you will play a foundational role in building advanced analytics capabilities developing scalable data pipelines and using advanced modelling to drive decision-making across product sales risk treasury and operations.

Operating in a fast-paced environment you will be part of a dynamic execution-focused Sales team. Your primary responsibilities will include optimizing efficiency (e.g. around product performance client segmentation portfolio penetration and profitability risk metrics etc.) and accuracy while driving revenue growth and delivering valuable insights for our clients and businesses. You will leverage your expertise in statistics machine learning and optimization to transform business challenges into effective data science solutions. You will also help enable self-serve analytics reports and tools for product and sales managers.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role.To successfully perform the work youll be on-site full-time.

How Youll Succeed

• Data Strategy & Innovation - You will lead the development and execution of GTBs data strategy to accelerate the translation of data into business value. This includes establishing frameworks to organize and integrate GTB data modernizing data infrastructure and processes mitigating data-related risks fostering a data-driven culture and defining capability roadmaps for deploying scalable data science doing so you will apply data science across GTB domains such as treasury and liquidity management cash flow forecasting payment ecosystems (including domestic and cross-border payment rails such as SWIFT ACF/EFT and real-time payments) transaction and deposit patterning and operate with an awareness of relevant regulatory considerations such as AML KYC and FINTRAC requirements.

• Strategic Business Planning & Management - You will support the execution of GTBs strategy by aligning data science initiatives to business objectives and performance targets. You will provide actionable insights through ongoing analysis of portfolio performance pricing and net interest margin trends liquidity metrics and market dynamics to inform strategic decision-making. This may include supporting analytics related to rates and net interest margin performance portfolio profitability and client-level activity across regions industries and segments.

• Product & Process Optimization - You will identify practical opportunities to improve product performance pricing effectiveness and overall client value propositions. This includes streamlining and automating reporting and enhancing analytics that support pricing rates net interest margin liquidity analysis and other GTB uses cases while driving continuous improvement across data and reporting processes. You will also help enable more proactive insights through automation such as improved ad-hoc reporting and monitoring of client activity and market events (e.g. bond issuances M&A activity).

• Relationship Management & Collaboration - You will build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders across sales treasury product risk and technology teams as well as with external clients and partners. You will clearly communicate complex analytical concepts collaborate to understand business challenges and ensure alignment across teams to successfully deliver data-driven initiatives.

• Leadership & Development - You will foster a culture of collaboration knowledge sharing and effective problem-solving. By providing context guidance and mentorship you will help ensure team initiatives align with GTBs overall objectives and contribute meaningfully to organizational success.

Who You Are

• You have an advanced degree in Data Science Computer Science Mathematics Engineering Economics or a related field or equivalent work experience; a masters degree (e.g. MMA MBAN) is an asset.

• You have at least 5 years of experience working in data science AI/ML or advanced analytics roles within complex data-driven environments.

• You have experience applying analytics within financial services particularly in solving business problems across capital markets banking or related domains

• You demonstrate strong technical expertise across data and analytics disciplines including data engineering practices business intelligence cloud-based data services statistics programming languages (e.g. Python SQL) as well as common AI/ML tool (e.g. scikit-learn XGBoost PyCaret Hugging Face/Transformers)

• You are a strong communicator with the ability to translate complex analytical and technical concepts into clear actionable insights for diverse stakeholders.

• You are a problem solver with strong critical thinking and decision-making skills capable of independently analyzing complex problems and recommending effective solutions.

• You are goal-oriented and execution focused motivated by building and scaling new capabilities in a fast-paced results-driven environment.

• You value collaboration and collective success building trusted relationships across diverse teams and partners.

• Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work while living our values of trust teamwork and accountability.

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What CIBC Offers

At CIBC your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career rather than just a paycheck.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful personalized ways including a competitive salary incentive pay banking benefits a benefits program* defined benefit pension plan* an employee share purchase plan a vacation offering wellbeing support and MomentMakers our social points-based recognition program.

• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

• We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

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What you need to know

• CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation please contact

• CIBC is committed to clarity in our hiring process. All roles posted are opportunities were actively recruiting for unless stated otherwise.

• You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and where applicable must have a valid work or study permit.

• We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills test (such as simulation coding French proficiency).

• We use artificial intelligence tools during the recruitment process. Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you all that you have to offer and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

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