Director Advanced Analytics

Overview

We’re building a relationship‑oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients. At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

What you’ll be doing

Global Operational Risk Management (GORM) provides enterprise‑wide oversight of operational risk at CIBC, setting the direction through frameworks, policies, and processes that ensure effective risk identification, mitigation, and reporting. Within GORM, the Advanced Analytics and Solutions Team drives innovation by developing data‑driven and AI‑enabled solutions that enhance risk management capabilities. As Director, Advanced Analytics, you will lead teams responsible for delivering advanced analytics, dashboards, automation, and artificial intelligence tools that improve operational risk insights and efficiency. You will oversee multiple initiatives, ensuring solutions meet business needs, regulatory standards, and governance requirements. By collaborating with key stakeholders, you will help shape solution strategies, communicate insights, and deliver products that support critical risk management programs. Additionally, you will mentor team members and translate GORM’s AI strategy into practical, scalable solutions for risk professionals across the organization.

How you’ll succeed

• Lead delivery of advanced analytics and AI solutions – Oversee the development and enhancement of data solutions, dashboards, models, automation and AI‑enabled tools that support operational risk management.
• Guide end‑to‑end delivery from requirements and design through build, testing, implementation, monitoring and enhancement.
• Manage technical teams and delivery priorities – Lead technical contributors across multiple workstreams by setting priorities, allocating work, reviewing outputs, resolving delivery issues and helping team members deliver high‑quality solutions aligned to established standards and business needs.
• Translate business priorities into scalable solutions – Work with operational risk stakeholders to understand business problems, assess solution options, and guide the translation of requirements into practical, scalable data, dashboard, model and AI solutions.
• Strengthen operational risk insight – Ensure analytics products support meaningful insight across GORM programs such as Change Initiative Risk Assessments, Risk and Control Self‑Assessments, controls, deficiencies, key risk indicators, reporting and operational risk capital.
• Communicate insights and technical concepts clearly – Present dashboard insights, analytical outputs, model results and solution recommendations to operational risk stakeholders. Explain technical concepts in clear business language and respond effectively to questions, risks and implementation considerations.
• Support governance, quality and sustainability – Ensure data, dashboard, model and AI‑enabled solutions are developed and maintained with appropriate documentation, testing, quality review, governance alignment, performance monitoring and operational sustainability.

Who you are

• You are a caring and accountable leader.
• You’re passionate about developing and coaching to bring out the best in people.
• You have led diverse, high performing teams.
• You give meaning to data.
• You enjoy investigating complex problems and making sense of information.
• You communicate detailed information in a meaningful way.
• You’re digitally savvy.
• You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies.
• You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.
• Your influence makes a difference.
• You know that relationships and networks are essential to success.
• You inspire outcomes by sharing your expertise.
• You act like an owner.
• You thrive when you’re empowered to take initiative, go above and beyond, and deliver results.
• You can demonstrate experience in leading technical teams and overseeing the delivery of data, dashboard, model development, automation and advanced analytics initiatives.
• You have experience guiding technical design decisions, managing delivery priorities, reviewing outputs, resolving complex issues, and supporting stakeholders through implementation.
• You have strong technical knowledge in data solution development, dashboard development, statistical analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence, automation, data visualization, database querying, model governance and solution delivery.
• It’s an asset if you have experience with Python, SQL, business intelligence tools, large language models, retrieval‑augmented generation, model monitoring, operational risk data, financial services data, or governance‑related analytics.
• You understand operational risk.
• You have knowledge of operational risk programs and processes sufficient to ensure data, dashboard, model and AI solutions reflect business context, practical requirements and risk management objectives.
• You have a degree or diploma in computer science, engineering, data science, statistics, mathematics, business analytics, risk management or a related field of study, or equivalent work/project experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and incentive pay
• Banking benefits and a benefits program*
• Defined benefit pension plan*
• Employee share purchase plan
• Vacation offering
• Wellbeing support
• MomentMakers, a social, points‑based recognition program
• Purpose Day – a paid day off dedicated for you to invest in your growth and development

Location & Employment

Toronto – 81 Bay, 31st Floor

Employment Type: Regular

Weekly Hours: 37.5

Skills: Analytical Thinking, Communication, Data Integration, Data Quality, Leadership, People Management, Quality Improvement, Reporting and Analysis, Risk Analytics, Risk Management Strategies

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and provide an accessible candidate experience.

Values: Trust, Teamwork, Accountability