Business Process Analyst

Company Overview

BMO Financial Group is an organization driven by a shared purpose: to boldly grow the good in business and life. It calls on its team members to create lasting, positive change for its customers, communities, and people. By working together, innovating, and pushing boundaries, BMO transforms lives and businesses, and powers economic growth around the world.

As a contract worker on the BMO team, you are valued, respected, and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. BMO strives to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and BMO's customers.

Job Description

BMO is currently sourcing for a Business Process Analyst position on a 6-month contract.

This individual will be working in a collaborative, fast-paced, and friendly environment. This role is on the Mutual Funds Governance and Retail Investments Process team. The team is accountable for supporting and continuously improving retail investments processes in P&C branches, leading transformational digitization initiatives and regulatory projects, and providing oversight on all BMO II mutual fund dealer activities.

Key Responsibilities:

Define, develop, and monitor metrics and KPIs for Investments projects and processes across all channels, including Branch & NACCC.

Lead the design, development, and implementation of analytic and reporting solutions.

Extract and analyze data to identify patterns and insights that can help define action plans, business priorities, and strategic direction.

Provide strategic support to the leadership team, Mutual Funds Governance and Retail Investments Process.

Track metrics and KPIs related to compliance and operational effectiveness.

Define, build, and publish dashboards/scorecards for the team to track key process and governance metrics.

Use data to identify root causes, key drivers of metrics, and define and monitor appropriate action plans.

Identify emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making.

Ensure alignment between stakeholders about business needs and data needs.

Design and produce regular and ad-hoc reports, and dashboards.

Break down strategic problems, and analyze data and information to provide subject-matter insights and recommendations.

Structure and assemble data into multi-dimensions with various granularities (e.g., customers, products, transactions).

Manipulate, and transform data through programming/scripting for model training and validation.

Promote reporting automation, self-serve analytics consumption, and the culture of analytics-driven decision-making.

Monitor and track tool performance, user acceptance testing, and addresses any issues.

Integrate information from multiple sources to enable more efficient processes, enhanced analysis, and/or streamlined reporting.

Build reports and visualizations to effectively communicate data-driven insights to users for a variety of audiences (e.g., visualization solutions of data into reports, graphics, dashboards to illustrate facts, trends, and insights).

Develop solutions and make recommendations based on an understanding of the business strategy and stakeholder needs.

Support development and execution of strategic analytics & reporting initiatives in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Analyze data and information to provide subject-matter insights and recommendations.

Document and maintain operational procedures and processes relating to analytical and reporting processes.

Collaborate in the design, implementation, and management of core business/group processes.

Design processes based on business requirements and best practices. Ensure the processes adhere to applicable risk, regulatory, and compliance requirements.

Streamline, simplify, and continuously improve existing processes.

Document processes (including, but not limited to, process flows, playbooks, etc.) for vetting, communicating, and implementing processes with stakeholders.

Ensure all processes meet established standards, effectively utilize templates and tools to track compliance and operational effectiveness standards.

Look for opportunities to eliminate, simplify, and automate processes. Recommend changes to streamline and integrate processes to improve efficiency.

Integrate information from multiple sources to enable more efficient processes, enhanced analysis, and/or streamlined reporting.

Participate in the integration of Core Process transformation across business/groups to deliver process improvements.

Ensure that process design reflects current business strategy and business requirements and supports the Bank's end-state digital vision.

Recommend and implement solutions based on analysis of issues and implications for the business.

Identify emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making.

Develop an understanding of organizational interactions and complexity to engage with the appropriate stakeholders. Manage stakeholder expectations and negotiate with project stakeholders on scope and deliverables.

Resolve issues regarding processes that are raised from all sources/stakeholders.

Create and deliver presentations summarizing findings and recommendations to business partner executives and senior management.

Monitor and track performance; and addresses any issues.

Break down strategic problems, and analyze data and information to provide insights and recommendations.

Work independently and regularly handle non-routine situations.

Build effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders.

Work independently and regularly handle non-routine situations.

Broad work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

Qualifications

Data preparation, data analysis, and statistical tool sets including but not limited to Power BI, Spotfire, Tableau: 5 years (Required)Business analysis and project delivery practices and standards: 5 years (Required)Track record of delivering process design and improvement: 5 years (Required)Understanding of risk, regulatory, and compliance requirements: 5 years (Required)Knowledge of Investments processes, mutual funds compliance: 5 years (Desired)

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About the BMO Contractor Talent Network

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Should you be selected for this contract engagement, Procom will act as the employer of record or the agency of record for your contract engagement.

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