Business Consultant

3 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada BMO Financial Group Full time

100 King Street West Toronto Ontario,M5X 1A1

Liaises with business stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities and recommends solutions to enable the achievement of functional and organizational goals. Builds exceptional relationships with BMO Asset Management, Private Bank and Nesbit Burns business partners and internal stakeholders across front
- Manages complexity across business value, technology, and interaction models.
- Possesses a deep understanding and problem-solving ability of various complexities.
- Develops innovative approaches to create solutions to resolve problems and significant issues.
- Recommends and implements solutions based on analysis of issues and implications for the business.
- Identifies emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making.
- Contributes to the development of the seed funding request by ensuring project scope and benefits are clearly articulated and risks are identified.
- Enables groups to successfully accept changes by informing stakeholders of their implications; recommends actions as appropriate.
- Works with project stakeholders to validate their requirements and analysis models via techniques such as reviews and walkthroughs.
- Ensures system specifications meet expectations/requirements and negotiates solutions.
- Creates documentation to ensure the supportability of analyses.
- Maintains existing requirements to ensure that current-state needs are known.
- Develops and implements data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and data quality.
- Identifies, analyzes, and interprets trends or patterns in complex data sets.
- Recommends approaches to streamline and integrate technological processes in the organization to improve overall efficiency.
- Facilitates discussions and follows a structured approach to plan, elicit, analyze, document, communicate and manage requirements with stakeholders.
- Identifies opportunities to strengthen business analysis capability, such as: sharing expertise to promote technical development, mentoring employees, building communities of practice and networks across BMO.
- Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through participation in professional associations, practice communities & individual learning.
- Provides specialized consulting, analytical and technical support.
- Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules.
- Works independently and regularly handles non-routine situations.

**Qualifications**:

- At least 7 years of relevant experience in financial services / investment management / wealth management and/or capital markets technology field, and Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, finance, mathematics, data analytics or business administration.
- The applicant should have in-depth knowledge of various global investment asset classes, publicly listed securities and market data attributes, investment performance and risk data attributes and portfolio management concepts, trade attributes and the overall trade life cycle across major asset classes and investment instruments. Hands-on experience with investment management vendor systems, such as: Charles River IMS, Blackrock Aladdin, Virtu Triton OMS/Compliance, Bloomberg DL, Refinitiv, SimCorp Dimension, Vermilion, FactSet, Markit EDM, Eagle PACE/STAR, SS&C PORTIA Perform, etc.
- Experience implementing Charles River Investment Management System (CRIMS) -either internally-hosted or via vendor-hosted SaaS platform implementations and subsequent CRIMS software (and hardware) upgrades.
- Broad background in trading, including but not limited to execution management systems, trade order management and pre-trade investment compliance systems and processes, etc.
- Expert level of knowledge of Charles River Investment Management Solution, including a thorough understanding of the following:

- User Privileges/Entitlement
- Account Maintenance & Set Up
- Manager Workbench
- Model Creation & Maintenance
- Cash Management & Forecasting (Cash Ladder)
- Portfolio Rebalancing & Benchmarking
- Trade Order Modeling, Creation & Execution
- Investment Compliance (Pre
- / Post-Trade)
- Market/Reference Data and Security Master
- Charles River Anywhere (CRA)
- Knowledge of software development practice, concepts/methodologies (i.e. Waterfall, Agile, Scrum/Iterative), and technology obtained through formal training and/or work experience.
- Knowledge of one or more requirements analysis and problem decomposition techniques.
- Knowledge of Relational Databases. Moderate hands-on experience with SQL queries.
- Possible experience with latest cloud-based data lake technology solutions (e.g., Snowflake, etc.)
- Possesses analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Specific skills/other requirements: utilizing MS Office Suite, includ


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