Application Deadline:

03/26/2026

Address:
33 Dundas Street West

Job Family Group:

Technology

Hybrid work arrangement: The candidate is expected to work on-site at our downtown Toronto, ON location.

Current on-site work requirement is this is 2-3 days a week, with occasional additional day(s), as required. In near future this may change

Are you passionate about driving business transformation through technology? We're seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Consultant to join our Retail Investments Technology team at BMO. In this role, you'll provide strategic consulting, align technology solutions with business needs, and lead initiatives that shape the future of our enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business Analysis & Consulting: Liaise with stakeholders, analyze strategic problems, and provide actionable insights.
• Technology Alignment: Ensure solutions meet business needs and quality standards.
• Change Management: Lead readiness assessments, stakeholder engagement, and communication strategies.
• Leadership: Mentor team members, promote best practices, and build strong relationships across IT and business groups.

As a senior member of a multi-functional team, you will be primary responsible for providing management consulting services and technology/industry expertise in support of business and enterprise needs.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Liaises with stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities, to facilitate the organization's goals by understanding business vision, objectives, and key performance indicators.
• Aligns technology requirements and solutions to a real business need, meets essential quality standards, and ensures approval by all relevant stakeholders.
• Acts as a consultant to business partners in collaboration with the project team in strategy and planning sessions (e.g. multi-year and annual plans), reviews, or inspections to ensure the quality of work products. Promotes new processes and methodologies, emerging technologies, and agile, and aligns to the unique project team requirements.
• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Leads change management programs of varying scope and type, including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives.
• Leads the development of the communication strategy focusing on positively influencing or changing behavior.
• Presents and communicates at all levels within IT and across businesses / groups.
• Completes root-cause analysis to determine underlying causes and participates in problem resolution for complex issues at all levels.
• Identifies opportunities to strengthen the IT consulting capability (e.g. shares expertise to promote technical development, mentors employees, builds communities of practice and networks across technology).
• Understands and follows a project requirements management plan so that activities and milestones of the project team can be measured against the goals of the plan.
• Facilitates discussions and follows a disciplined approach to plan, elicit, analyze, document, communicate, and manage business requirements with stakeholders; applies a variety of elicitation techniques to probe, challenge, and understand requirements.
• Provides analytical support and insights to identified / assigned user areas to support relative product, channel, and business development initiatives (e.g. product, portfolio, and profitability analytics, and customer analytics).
• Collaborates in root-cause analysis to determine underlying causes and participates in problem resolution.
• Builds exceptional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Liaises with business and technology development and support groups.
• Aligns business needs to vision/goals to ensure development teams to translate them into detailed design specifications and code.
• Assess project impact, benefits, and risks when scope changes.
• Communicates and engages across stakeholder groups during construction and delivery of solutions.
• Assesses the quality of supporting documentation, including business and process requirements documents, to ensure proper analysis supports recommendations or demonstrate continued alignment to strategic objectives.
• Develops a deep understanding of organizational complexity to build strong rapport with internal stakeholders for the construction and delivery of the solution.
• Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through benchmarking and/or participation in professional associations.
• Operates at a group/enterprise-wide level and serves as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to problems that can be complex and non-routine.
• Implements changes in response to shifting trends.

Qualifications

• Required: 10+ years of business analysis IT experience in financial industry, preferably within capital markets, wealth management, asset management or investment operations.
• Required: Post-secondary degree in business, finance, and/or computer science. MBA is an asset.
• Expert: Ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Expert: Knowledge of business analysis, project delivery practices and standards across the project lifecycle. Business analysis accreditation is an asset.
• Expert: Business strategy and assessments (i.e., feasibility studies, business cases and/or cost/benefit, project sizing and costing, and current state analysis/needs assessments). Ability to write clear and concise user stories, acceptance criteria and process flows.
• Expert: Ability to analyze complex data and provide actionable insight to help drive business decisions.
• Expert: Data driven decision making.
• Expert: Highly effective communicator. Excellent listening and communication skills.
• Expert: Collaboration & teamwork skills with a focus on cross-group collaboration.
• Expert: Knowledge of software development practice, concepts/methodologies (i.e. waterfall, iterative), and technologies obtained through formal training and/or work experience. Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools (Scrum, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint) is a bonus.

Soft Skills/Leadership Skills

• Ownership mindset, strong analytical capabilities and a passion for problem-solving and adapting to change.
• Bold and accountable leader and mentor; passionate about technology, innovative, and comfortable to stand out.
• Demonstrates transparency and willingness to share knowledge and best practices.
• Displays acumen with technical concepts and business/industry knowledge with a strong desire for continuous learning.
• Can-do attitude. Persists in driving towards the end goal by self and leading the team.
• Awareness of critical path amidst changing priorities.
• Ability to work under pressure, manage ambiguity and tight deadlines.
• Willingness to ask questions, challenge the process and seek out answers.
• Ability to assimilate lots of detailed information effectively.
• Excellent time management, organizational and prioritization skills.
• Works independently with great resourcefulness and little guidance and can work with ambiguity.

Salary :

$94,600.00 - $176,000.00

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.

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