100 King Street West Toronto Ontario,M5X 1A1

BMO Capital Markets

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American-based financial services provider offering equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, securitization, treasury management, market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading. BMO Capital Markets has over 2,700 professionals in 30+ locations around the world, including 20 offices in North America.

BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$1.0 trillion total assets and approximately 54,000 employees as of January 31, 2025.

Role

Assist in the execution of Capital Markets Operational Risk and Resilience’s strategy, risk and control management, governance, and regulatory initiatives.

What Makes This Role Unique

• Project Ownership & Innovation: Analysts are empowered to lead initiatives, propose creative solutions, and contribute to process redesigns—building a strong foundation in project management and change delivery with direct impact across all revenue generating areas in Capital Markets.
• Exposure to Strategic Projects & Stakeholders: Analysts work on cross-functional initiatives, including data reconciliation, quality assurance, and offshore coordination, and regularly interact with a sense of urgency for all internal stakeholders —providing an expanded visibility and strategic experience across all lines of businesses within Capital Markets

Responsibilities

• Planning and executing short and long-term initiatives and ad hoc deliverables within given timelines
• Methodically solving problems across a continuum that ranges from simple day-to-day issues to highly complex business, technical or regulatory issues.
• Build an understanding of end-to-end processes in support of CM operational excellence and resilience. This includes ensuring key processes and controls are identified, inventoried, mapped, and assessed for operational risk and resilience end-to-end across Capital Markets.
• Partner with business stakeholders in GM and support areas (Technology, Operations) to map processes end to end, thinking critically to build and maintain complete flows that capture key processes, controls, systems, and dependencies in existing business activities and growth areas.
• Supports development and execution of strategic initiatives in collaboration with internal stakeholders
• Assists with the maintenance, monitoring, measurement & reporting on the status of the operational risk governance program and key risk indicators to internal & external stakeholders
• Writing business communications that clearly and appropriately convey the target message.
• Work cross-functionally to understand business processes and how to better optimize workflows for reporting and analytics
• Prepare project surveys for review: identify pain points, current time spend, estimated time save with future processes
• Review and organize documentation (reporting processes)
• Map out process workflows
• Extract, load, and transform data from multiple sources for reporting and ad-hoc analyses under tight timelines
• Work with various lines of business to develop bank-wide control testing procedures and documentation
• Ongoing self-study about GM, Capital Markets, emerging regulatory and industry issues, BMO business priorities, and best practices.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:

• Detail oriented, ability to self-monitor/check
• Experience executing work independently, accountability and ownership of tasks and processes
• Proactive in work and responsibility
• Refined critical thinking skills, with an ability to independently recognize problems, propose solutions and execute on them
• Experience in data, data analysis and related infrastructure
• Strong academic record and extracurricular achievement;

Ability to:

• Recognize problems, propose solutions and execute on them; quick learner
• Ensure that key insights are supported by accurate data and research
• Investigate opportunities for increasing efficiency in their regular responsibilities and projects and their value add to the business, including cost/benefit
• See connections between distinct pieces of work and the bigger picture, ability to consider cross impacts

Knowledge

• Understanding of intent and purpose of team
• Intermediate Office Suite proficiency, including Excel and PowerBI
• Basic knowledge of Capital Markets LOBs, products, controls, and infrastructure(e.g., people, systems, relationships x-product/LOB)
• Basic knowledge of the financial services industry

We are looking for candidates currently enrolled in an undergraduate or Master’s program (non MBA) with a graduation date of Dec 2026 or April 2027.

Please ensure you are a Canadian citizen, permanent resident of Canada, or an individual who is legally authorized to work in Canada and will not require sponsorship in the future

How to Apply:

For your application to be eligible for consideration, you must apply to the BMO application link. Please ensure the following items are submitted in your application:

• Resume
• Transcript (Required for application consideration – please upload it in the resume section when applying in BMO’s Workday application system)

lying in BMO’s Workday application system)

Please note the salary of this role is CAD$70,000

Salary:

$45,500.00 - $84,500.00

Pay Type:

Salaried

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

Note to Recruiters: BMO does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to BMO, directly or indirectly, will be considered BMO property. BMO will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. A recruiting agency must first have a valid, written and fully executed agency agreement contract for service to submit resumes.