BMO Personal & Business Banking Development Program (New Graduate) - 2 Year Program

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Are you analytically inclined, digitally-savvy and motivated by the opportunity to innovate and deliver cutting edge products & solutions in Canada?

The Personal & Business Banking Development Program is a two-year rotational program designed to accelerate your development through hands-on experience across multiple business areas within Canadian Personal & Business Banking (P&BB). 

Through four six-month rotations, you'll gain exposure to areas such as Product Management, Data & Analytics, Risk Management, Business Banking, Digital, Customer Lifecycle Management, and other strategic functions.

Along the way, you'll build a unique combination of business acumen, analytical capability, leadership skills, and professional networks while contributing to meaningful work that helps Canadians make real financial progress. 

The successful candidates in the 3Personal and Business Banking Development Program4 will be part of a 2-year cohort, working alongside banking product, analytics, and risk leaders to accelerate their knowledge, understanding and skills in how BMOs largest business segment - Personal and Business Banking (P&BB) operates and interacts. 

Key Accountabilities

Support development and implementation of product strategies to drive sales of existing banking products, launch new products to market, optimize profitability and improve the customer experience. 

Support management of product risks to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and risk compliance, and reporting. 

Leverage strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills to contribute value and grow a network across multiple roles and functions in Canadian Personal & Business Banking, including the Data & Analytics Centre of Excellence, Product Management and Risk Management.  

Help plan and deploy data & analytics solutions to improve issue understanding, generate insights and enable high-quality, fact-based decisions that drive better business outcomes.  

Understands and articulates the business case of business questions and the estimated value being delivered. Designs dashboards and analyses to be performed, and appropriate visualization and analytics tools to use. Identifies trends and patterns to address identified business questions and provide insights through reporting and data visualization techniques. Works with other data and analytics professionals to optimize, refine, automate and scale analysis into repeatable analytics solutions and decision support tools.

• Builds various reporting dashboards using the most appropriate data extraction, data cleaning and data visualisation techniques.
• Provides value through insights, reporting and data visualization techniques. Selects, configures and implements analytics solutions for consistency and repeatability.
• Researches and applies continuous improvement in data visualization by identifying trends and patterns to transform raw data into actionable business insights.
• Works with different teams, management and stakeholders to enhance the usability and aesthetic appeal of data analytics solutions deployed in the organization.
• Translates business needs to technical specifications and evaluates existing data visualization systems in order to improve them.
• Develops data visualizations of "large" amounts of data that facilitate the intuitive presentation of data to decision makers.
• Documents data flow, systems and processes to improve the design, implementation and management of business/group processes.
• Develops tools and delivers training programs for use of reporting tools and self-serve analytics by non-analytical end users; may include delivery of training to audiences.
• Focus is primarily on business/group within BMO; may have broader, enterprise-wide focus.
• Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules.
• Works independently on a range of complex tasks, which may include unique situations.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.
• Take measured risks while protecting the bank by applying our Risk Management Framework in the execution of your role, in line with our Risk Culture and within our approved Risk Appetite, making sound and risk informed decisions that align to business strategy, protect assets, and adhere to applicable policy documents (Frameworks, Policies, Standards, Procedures and Supporting documents), laws and regulations.

Qualifications:

Foundational level of proficiency:

• Technical design optimization.
• Decision Making.
• Systems Thinking.
• Data visualization.
• Data storytelling.
• Data mining.
• Illustration.
• Creative thinking.
• Problem Solving.

Intermediate level of proficiency:

• Insights design.
• Insights development and reporting.
• Verbal & written communication skills.
• Collaboration & team skills.
• Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Data driven decision making.
• Typically between 4 - 6 years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Technical proficiency gained through education and/or business experience.

The above represents BMO Financial Groups 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 Groups expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Groups 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