Description

Application Deadline: 08/30/2025

Address: 33 Dundas Street West

Job Family Group: Technology

Accountable for leading a team to execute on Cloud Business Office roadmap to improve cloud business management across the enterprise to support the bank’s Digital Cloud First Strategy.

Establishes and maintains relationships with Cloud Service Providers, industry contacts and internal stakeholders to gather competitive insights and best practices to benchmark BMO’s Innovation and Digital Cloud First position to support cloud maturity and continually quantify growth and forward focus for the bank.

Works with stakeholders and the team to identify cloud business management gaps and anomalies. Prioritizes, executes, and adjusts (where needed) the team’s roadmap as well as drive the strategic planning process for Cloud Business Office, leveraging market trends, global competitors, and scenario planning as inputs to strategic planning to support Cloud Business Office governance, monitoring and performance as well as alignment to the Cloud Strategy.

• 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.

• Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals

• Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.

• Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent.

• Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches’ employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance.

• Leads the development of priorities, current, and planned initiatives, and support requirements related to strategic management for the business/group.

• Supports the execution of strategic initiatives in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

• Develops business cases by identifying needs, analyzing potential options, and assessing expected return on investment as well as risks.

• Recommends business priorities, advises on resource requirements, and develops roadmap for strategic execution.

• Recommends and implements solutions based on analysis of issues and implications for the business emphasizing risk over reward and ability to effectively OCM.

• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.

• Develops an expert understanding of business/group challenges

• Leverages a strong project management & process mindset to balance between strategy and delivery

• Recommends measures to improve organizational effectiveness.

• Identifies emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making.

• Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to problems that can be complex and non-routine.

• Networks with industry contacts to gather competitive insights and best practices.

• Implements changes in response to shifting trends.

• Defines business requirements for analytics & reporting to ensure data insights inform business decision making.

• Monitors and tracks team performance to respective goals, deliverables and team roadmap; helps to breakdown and address issues.

• Makes recommendations to leaders on financial management processes based on changing requirements.

• Conducts independent review, analysis, and resolution of strategic issues.

• Acts as the prime contact for internal/external stakeholder relationships and builds effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders and ensures alignment between stakeholders.

• Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders for making business decisions and implementing strategic initiatives.

• Builds change management plans of varying scope and type; leads or participates in a variety of change management activities including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation, and sustainment of initiatives.

• Leads or participates in defining the communication plan designed to positively influence or change behaviour; develops tailored messaging; and identifies appropriate distribution channels.

• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

• Qualifications:

• Typically 10+ years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Seasoned professional with a combination of education, experience, and industry knowledge.

• Cloud Knowledge is an asset

• Experience with people management

• Experience with project managing and leading a team

• Proficient with developing business strategy and assessments (i.e. feasibility studies, business cases and/or cost/benefit, project sizing and costing, and current state analysis/needs assessments).

• Proficiency in business analysis, project delivery practices and standards across the project lifecycle.

• Possesses a deep understanding and problem solving ability of Information Technology of various complexities.

• Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth / Expert.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills - In-depth / Expert.

• Influence skills - In-depth / Expert.

• Collaboration & team skills; with a focus on cross-group collaboration/facilitation/providing direction - In-depth / Expert.

• Able to manage ambiguity.

• Data driven decision making - In-depth / Expert.