Bank of Montreal

Manager, Lending Strategy, Reporting Insights

Bank of Montreal$69K — $129K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in Credit Risk, Portfolio Management, or advanced analytics for consumer/business credit portfolios.
  • Ability to convert complex data into strategic insights and influence decisions.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring frameworks and early-warning indicators.
  • Strong business acumen linking customer behavior, macro factors, and portfolio outcomes.
  • Proficiency in Advanced SAS/SQL and Power BI for reporting and dashboard creation.
  • Excellent communication skills for briefing senior audiences and coaching junior analysts.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and connect insights across the customer credit lifecycle, linking various risk profiles and outcomes.
  • Collaborate to refine strategies and treatment designs based on data-driven insights.
  • Establish monitoring processes for new products and policies to facilitate rapid feedback.
  • Create executive dashboards that identify risks and opportunities tailored to key stakeholders.
  • Translate complex analyses into clear narratives with actionable next steps.
  • Utilize advanced analytics to enhance decision quality and early-warning capabilities.
  • Align monitoring and insights with enterprise risk appetite and regulatory standards.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage.
  • Tuition reimbursement for education opportunities.
  • Accident and life insurance options.
  • Retirement savings plans with employer contributions.
  • Performance-based incentives and discretionary bonuses.
Full Job Description
Application Deadline:

06/22/2026

Address:
33 Dundas Street West

Job Family Group:

Audit, Risk & Compliance

The Manager, Credit Risk Reporting Insights transforms data into decision-ready insight across the customer credit lifecycle-from acquisition and underwriting through account management, fraud, and collections-across Consumer and Business Banking credit products as well as an accountability for Credit Risk Campaign Design & Measurement

Credit Lifecycle Analytics & Decision Support
  • Develop a connected lifecycle view that links acquisition risk profiles, account-management actions (e.g., limit management, pricing, treatments), fraud signals, payment performance, and collections outcomes.
  • Partner with Credit Risk, Product, Marketing, Fraud, and Collections to translate insights into strategy adjustments, treatment design, champion/challenger tests, or policy changes.
  • Stand up monitoring for new products, policy changes, and strategy deployments to enable early feedback loops and rapid course-correction.

3) Executive-Ready Reporting & Influence
  • Build executive-ready stories and dashboards that surface risks, opportunities, and trade-offs; tailor messages for forums such as Product/Credit Councils, Finance reviews, and Risk updates.
  • Distill complex analysis into concise narratives with a clear POV and next-best actions; quantify expected impact and measurement plans.

4) Advanced Analytics, Models & Tools
  • Apply advanced analytics (behavioral scoring, predictive indicators, segmentation, survival/roll-rate modeling, stress indicators) to improve early-warning and decision quality.
  • Enhance monitoring tools (dashboards, automated alerts, predictive flags) and ensure robust measurement/back-testing so recommendations are evidence-based.
  • Partner with model developers and users to operationalize model insights within monitoring and treatment logic; ensure fit-for-use and champion/challenger evaluation.

5) Governance, Risk Alignment & Controls
  • Ensure monitoring and insights align to enterprise risk appetite and comply with internal policies and regulatory expectations.


Must-Have
  • 3+ years of progressive experience in Credit Risk, Portfolio Management, Lending, or advanced analytics across consumer and/or business credit portfolios.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex data into strategic insights and influence stakeholders with concise, decision-ready narratives.
  • Hands-on expertise building monitoring frameworks, early-warning indicators, behavioral segmentation, and performance measurement/back-testing.
  • Strong business acumen connecting customer behavior, macro factors, operational signals, and portfolio outcomes; comfortable with trade-off framing.
  • Proficiency with Advanced SAS/SQL, Power BI (Power Apps, Power Query, DAX Coding) for dashboarding and automated reporting.
  • Excellent communication skills-able to brief senior audiences succinctly and coach junior analysts on storytelling with data.
  • Excellent communication skills-able to brief senior audiences succinctly and coach junior analysts on storytelling with data.

Nice-to-Have
  • Experience with credit decisioning strategies (e.g., limit management, pricing, treatment orchestration) and experimentation (A/B, champion/challenger).
  • Familiarity with model governance/model risk concepts and stress testing; experience integrating model outputs into monitoring and strategies.
  • Knowledge of collections operations, fraud operations, and hardship programs; exposure to macroeconomic scenario analysis.
  • Degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Finance, Data Science); graduate degree an asset.


#FutureofRetailLending

Join a pioneering team shaping the future of Canadian Retail Credit Strategies.

We're building next-generation, end-to-end credit solutions that span the entire lifecycle-from acquisition and account management to collections-anchored in a holistic Lending Decision Strategy and aligned with Canadian Personal & Business Banking (P&BB) priorities.
Our approach combines cutting-edge decisioning software, advanced decision trees, and innovative credit models to deliver smarter, faster, and more customer-centric outcomes. This is your opportunity to influence credit cycles using modern modeling techniques and best-in-class decisioning applications, all within a high-performance, customer-focused environment.
If you're passionate about leveraging data, technology, and strategy to transform lending decisions and drive meaningful impact across Canadian P&BB, this is the team for you.

Salary:

$69,000.00 - $129,000.00

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 Bank of Montreal

The Bank of Montreal is a Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services company. It provides a wide range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management, and investment banking products and services. The bank had revenues of CAD 23.6 billion in 2020.
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