Technology Business Management, Strategy, And Operations Consultant Inbox

Location Address: Hybrid (approx. 1-2x/week, subject to project needs) Downtown, Toronto

Contract Duration: 6 months

Extension: Very likely, high chance of conversion to fulltime

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers bank’s Corporate and Investment Banking and Global Capital Markets

businesses.

• Project: Strategic oversight with the technology business management team

Candidate Value Proposition

- The successful candidate will contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and growth,

ensuring team members have opportunities for growth. This is a great role to apply strategic skillsets

to an executive audience.

Typical Day in Role

The business group is looking for a creative, quick-learning, and self-starting individual with a

combination of strategic thinking and execution, strategic workforce planning experience, operational

efficiency, financial and business acumen who can develop, implement, and manage multiple key

initiatives for the team.

As the Technology Business Management, Strategy, and Operations Consultant, no two days are ever

the same and you would be partnering with internal and external teams to help deliver on initiatives

that has an impact across the department (500+ staff). The successful candidate will contribute to a

culture of continuous improvement and growth.

Below are examples of the programs you would be running in this role –

• Developing executive presentations and managing/leading leadership meetings, off-sites, town halls

• Work with leaders across the organizations to ensure effective staff participations on key initiatives

• Leading employee focus groups

• Running facilitation sessions for multiple teams within the department

• Collaborating with HR on driving the recruitment strategy for GBME and bringing in the best talent

• Building out a new staff onboarding program

• Employee engagement initiatives

• Support on managing the content/material of team newsletters

• Retention and Development program for staff – i.e., networking session, job exchange programs

• Diversity and Inclusion programs – i.e., Women in Tech; mentorship programs etc.

• Change management initiatives

• Operational improvements on areas that needs attention – i.e., release management cycles,

Contingent workforce program etc.

• Supporting strategic leaders and executives by building dashboards, etc.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• Minimum of 3-5 years relevant business experience, ideally in the financial services or consulting

sector

• 2+ years experience in a management consulting or corporate setting with program/project

management experience and building presentation material to senior leaders

• 1-2+ years’ experience using Power BI in recent projects is required

• Working knowledge of Agile Project Management, Risk Management and Change Management skills

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience with Visio, Access, JIRA, Confluence etc. are strong assets

• Experience within an IT/technical project team, and an understanding of the field

• Capital markets experience is an asset

Who would be great for this role?

• You would like to make a difference in an organization that wants their staff to feel they are part of a

community.

• You are genuinely passionate about working with people and strive to make people comfortable in

sharing their challenges with you.

• You want to come up with ideas and strategies that would have organizational wide impact.

• You want to tackle problems and come up with solutions that you can execute end to end.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication across a variety of audiences

• Can work in an extremely dynamic and fast changing environment and analyzing/solving complex

business problems

• You are genuinely passionate about working with people and strive to make people comfortable in

sharing their challenges with you.

• You want to come up with ideas and strategies that would have organizational wide impact.

• You want to tackle problems and come up with solutions that you can execute.