Head, Bmo Commercial Data Sciences

3 days ago


Toronto, Canada BMO Financial Group Full time

100 King Street West Toronto Ontario,M5X 1A1

The BMO Commercial Data & Analytics team is growing to meet the needs of the BMO Commercial business. BMO Commercial is a top 5 North American Commercial Bank and seeks to enhance all aspects of its businesses by leveraging vast amounts of data via analytical approaches. The aim of the team is to grow the business, minimize costs, reduce losses and foster data-backed decision making locally at the client level and in aggregate at every business level. This is an exciting time to be with BMO Commercial Data & Analytics, with several in-flight initiatives, and business partners that are engaged to drive value for our business.

The role will support the overall BMO Commercial Data & Analytics practice, including making recommendations that broadly support a best-in-class Data & Analytics function. A deep, integrated understanding of Commercial Banking is required to effectively support our Commercial growth ambitions.

**Responsibilities**:

- Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders for making business decisions and implementing strategic initiatives.
- Provides thought leadership and strategic advice to businesses through “art of the possible” conversations and demonstrating value though “Proof of Values”.
- Networks with industry contacts to gather competitive insights and best practices.
- Recommends business priorities, advises on resource requirements and develops roadmap for strategic execution.
- Makes strategic recommendations on data collection, integration and retention requirements incorporating business requirements and knowledge of best practices.
- Structures loosely defined and complex business problems; determines new experimentation methods and statistical techniques to design solutions.
- Acts as the prime contact for internal/external stakeholder relationships, which may include regulators.
- Supports development and execution of strategic initiatives in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Leads discovery process with stakeholders to identify business requirements and expected outcome and to select relevant sources of data/information.
- Develops an expert understanding of business/group challenges.
- Develops the business case by identifying needs, analysing potential options and assessing expected return on investment.
- Drives analytics innovation; poses open-ended questions, explores new ideas, and chooses appropriate techniques for solving business problems.
- Works with stakeholders to identify the business requirements, understand distinct problems and expected outcomes, and models and frames business scenarios which impact critical business processes and/or decisions.
- Defines business requirements for analytics & reporting to ensure data insights inform business decision making.
- Develops analytical solutions and makes recommendations based on an understanding of the business strategy and stakeholder needs.
- Identifies/creates the appropriate algorithm to discover patterns.
- Provides advice and guidance to assigned business/group on implementation of analytical solutions.
- Summarizes statistical findings and draws conclusions, presents actionable business recommendations. Presents findings & recommendations in a simple, clear way to drive action.
- Fosters strong internal and external networks and works with and across multiple teams to achieve business objectives.
- Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals.
- Diagnoses and resolves predictive / analytical model performance issues while monitoring system performance and implementation of efficiency improvements.
- Leads change management programs of varying scope and type, including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives.
- Collaborates across BMO to develop communications strategies and ensure consistency of messaging, in order to positively influence or change behaviour.
- Sets up change control and testing processes to ensure the quality and consistency of ongoing maintenance work.
- Leads and designs and implements policies and procedures around new data sets to ensure data quality, consistency, repeatability, and accuracy of insights.
- Supports development of tools and delivers training for data analytics and AI.
- Recommends measures to improve organizational effectiveness.
- Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do.
- Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.
- Regularly connects work to BMO's purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
- Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
- Improves team performance, recogn



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