Senior Engagement Manager - Banking Transformation & Cash Management (FSI)

Sia

$160K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years leading complex consulting engagements with measurable outcomes
  • Proven management consulting experience in strategy or change management
  • Demonstrated leadership of stakeholder programs in complex organizations
  • Strong project and change management capabilities
  • Excellent facilitation and executive communication skills
  • Ability to build trusted relationships quickly at all organizational levels
  • Bachelor's degree required

Responsibilities

  • Lead wave planning and capacity calibration for transition programs
  • Provide risk-based input on customer-specific sequencing
  • Drive playbook iteration by capturing escalation themes
  • Manage strategic consulting engagements from mobilization to delivery
  • Build customized project roadmaps and implement governance activities
  • Provide status reporting on progress and program health
  • Coordinate with adjacent initiatives for alignment

Benefits

  • Annual performance bonus
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous vacation and parental leave policies
  • Professional development support and access to a global network
Full Job Description
Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Banking Domain (Cash Management and Transaction Banking)
  • Lead wave planning and capacity calibration sessions for migration, onboarding, or transition programs
  • Provide risk-based input on customer-specific sequencing, complexity constraints, and readiness dependencies
  • Drive playbook iteration between cohorts by capturing escalation themes, objection patterns, and process failure modes
  • Feed findings into documentation quality checklists, runbook updates, and operating model refinements

Client Impact and Delivery Leadership
  • Lead and manage strategic consulting engagements from mobilization through delivery and closure, with accountability for outcomes, timelines, and quality
  • Build customized project roadmaps based on client context and implement governance and change activities across each phase
  • Provide clear status reporting on progress, dependencies, risks, issues, and overall program health for executive stakeholders
  • Ensure key initiatives deliver against business, schedule, and budget objectives

Program and Change Management Excellence
  • Apply project and change management frameworks to drive adoption, readiness, and sustainable implementation results
  • Lead impact analyses, assess change readiness, and identify key stakeholders and intervention plans
  • Define and track metrics that reinforce desired behaviors, measure progress, and improve implementation performance
  • Coordinate with adjacent initiatives to align timelines, dependencies, and delivery assumptions

Engagement and Team Leadership
  • Lead multidisciplinary Sia teams and provide day-to-day coaching, actionable feedback, and career development support
  • Build trust-based relationships with client stakeholders across frontline to executive levels
  • Facilitate complex working sessions and steer cross-functional teams toward shared decisions and outcomes
  • Contribute to high-quality, decision-ready deliverables and executive-level presentations

Business Development and Practice Contribution
  • Identify opportunities to create additional client value and support proposal development and pursuit activity
  • Contribute to business development activities and go-to-market initiatives in Financial Services(Capital Markets/CIB - Commercial and Investment Banking)
  • Help shape reusable assets, methodologies, and credentials based on delivery experience
  • Contribute to internal priorities including recruiting, marketing, culture, and practice-building initiatives


Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience leading complex consulting or transformation engagements with measurable outcomes
  • Proven management consulting experience in strategy, transformation, operating model, program delivery, or change management
  • Demonstrated leadership of multi-stakeholder programs in complex organizations, including executive governance and risk management
  • Strong project and change management capabilities, including readiness, adoption, communications, and implementation planning
  • Strong coaching and influencing skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders to a common objective
  • Excellent facilitation and executive communication skills, including development of C-level presentations and decision materials
  • Ability to build trusted, value-based relationships quickly across all levels of an organization
  • Bachelor's degree required

Preferred Qualifications
  • 8+ years in management consulting within banking, payments, transaction banking, or cash management operations and transformation
  • Priority leadership role in customer migration, onboarding, account transition programs at scale, and/or cross-border transactions
  • Experience with cohort or wave-based delivery models and playbook-based execution
  • MBA or equivalent advanced degree is an asset
  • Certifications such as PMP, Prosci, Agile, CTP, or equivalent are a plus

Location and Logistics
  • Location flexible based on client demand; regular travel and on-site presence expected
  • For current priority programs, ability to work on-site in Toronto is a strong advantage
  • Eligibility to work in Canada and/or the United States is preferred based on assignment needs


Additional Information

Compensation and Benefits
  • Base Salary: $160,000 + Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by applicable law.
  • Annual Performance Bonus (appraisal)
  • Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous vacation and parental leave policies
  • Professional development support and access to Sia's global network

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