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Director, credit risk strategy optimization oversight

$110.5k - $192.5k per year

BMO Financial Group

Date d'entrée en fonction : 1 poste à combler dès que possible

Date limite pour présenter sa candidature : 03/07/2026

Adresse : 33 Dundas Street West

Groupe de famille d'emploi : Audit, gestion des risques et conformité

Join a purpose‑driven team at the core of BMO’s risk management ecosystem. As the Director, Credit Risk Strategy Optimization Oversight, you will lead the end‑to‑end optimization, governance, and oversight of retail credit strategies across the consumer credit lifecycle including acquisition, account management, line management, pricing, and authorizations to balance profitable growth, PCL and KRM performance, portfolio resilience, capital efficiency, and regulatory compliance. This role sets the strategy vision, establishes guardrails and governance, and enables a test‑and‑learn culture to drive measurable improvements in risk‑adjusted returns, loss outcomes, capital usage, and customer experience. As a senior enterprise specialist, the Director provides independent, effective challenge and trusted advisory to senior leaders and cross‑functional partners.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Optimization, Risk Intelligence & Effective Challenge, and Portfolio Outcomes

Own the enterprise credit‑strategy framework to optimize risk-reward and drive improvements in approvals, utilization, balances, profitability, and portfolio quality within risk appetite and capital constraints.

  • Refine the enterprise credit‑strategy framework to ensure optimal risk-reward, capital efficiency, and compliance with risk appetite, governance, and regulatory expectations.
  • Act as senior SME guiding champion/challenger design across approvals, line strategies, pricing/offers, and authorization rules using rigorous experimentation, advanced analytics, and sound risk judgment.
  • Embed a disciplined effective‑challenge function across the full strategy lifecycle, ensuring integrity in problem framing, data/feature quality, model/score use, test design, monitoring, fairness reviews, and documentation.
  • Convert analytical insights into scalable production strategies using bureau, behavioural, and alternative data; establish strong KPI/KRM monitoring to support performance, resilience, and early‑warning detection.
  • Elevate risk intelligence by synthesizing early‑warning signals, peer benchmarks, macro trends, stress‑scenario results, and regulatory developments into actionable, forward‑looking guidance for senior leaders.
  • Embed affordability, macro‑sensitivity, stress‑testing outcomes, and PD/LGD/EAD overlays directly into strategy design to ensure resilience across economic conditions.
  • Review strategic business cases to ensure analytical defensibility, alignment to risk appetite, sound assumptions, and strong control considerations.
  • Maintain transparent, audit‑ready documentation including strategy rationale, controls, change logs, and validation summaries.

Strategic Advisory, Governance & Oversight

  • Define and enforce strategy guardrails, documentation standards, and governance routines aligned with enterprise risk appetite, Model Risk, Compliance, and OSFI expectations.
  • Serve as primary liaison to 2nd Line, Internal Audit, and governance forums, providing independent perspectives on portfolio trends, emerging risks, variances, and mitigants.
  • Establish strategy quality controls including pre/post‑implementation validation, back‑testing, shadow reads, and model/score usage attestations within disciplined change‑management processes.
  • Connect strategy changes to capital impacts, stress‑testing outcomes, loss‑forecasting results, and risk‑appetite metrics to ensure clear traceability from policy to execution.

Analytics, Tooling & Infrastructure

  • Optimize decision engines and adaptive‑control tools (e.g., TRIAD, Strategy Manager, DMP) to enable rapid deployment, segmentation, and throttle management.
  • Partner with Data, Engineering/T&O, and Modeling teams to productionize risk signals scores, affordability metrics, PD/LGD overlays with strong controls, monitoring, and version governance.
  • Advance visualization standards and self‑serve analytics to improve transparency, KPI drill‑downs, and executive‑ready storytelling.

Leadership, Stakeholder & Change

  • Build and lead a high‑performing credit‑strategy oversight and analytics team, fostering a culture of curiosity, effective challenge, experimentation, and evidence‑based storytelling.
  • Drive cross‑functional alignment with Product, Group Risk, Finance/Capital, Collections, Fraud, Legal/Compliance, Data & AI, and Technology to deliver high‑impact strategy changes and capability enhancements.
  • Champion disciplined change management through strong problem statements, structured delivery plans, and clear benefits realization.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in financial services/fintech/consulting with leadership in credit strategy, portfolio analytics, or credit policy.
  • Graduate degree in a quantitative field (Math/Stats, Analytics, Engineering, Finance/Econ, OR, Business).
  • Hands‑on experience designing and scaling credit strategies across the lifecycle, including champion/challenger testing and KPI ownership.
  • Strong program/change‑leadership skills with demonstrated cross‑functional execution.
  • Advanced communication skills succinct, influential, and accessible to senior non‑technical audiences.
  • Technical proficiency in Python, SQL, and BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI); experience with adaptive‑control/decision engines (TRIAD, DMP).
  • Broad understanding of retail banking products, risk methodologies, bureau data, and loss‑forecasting/time‑series concepts.
  • Experience with experimentation platforms, score/strategy deployment, and Canadian regulatory expectations.
  • Knowledge of fair‑lending/adverse‑impact analysis, model monitoring, ML ops/feature store concepts, and consumer‑credit pricing science.

What We Offer

  • A strategic second‑line leadership role with enterprise‑wide visibility, influence, and the ability to shape credit decisioning across the bank.
  • A meaningful opportunity to strengthen credit oversight, elevate decision quality, and enhance portfolio resilience through strategy optimization and risk intelligence.
  • A culture grounded in integrity, innovation, inclusion, and performance, where evidence‑based thinking and effective challenge are valued.
  • Direct access to senior leadership and cross‑functional partners, along with complex analytical and strategic challenges that support continuous growth and career progression.
  • Flexibility, autonomy, and long‑term career development within one of North America’s most respected and forward‑looking financial institutions.

Salaire

$110,500.00 - $192,500.00

Type de rémunération

Salaire

Ce qui précède représente la fourchette et le type de rémunération de BMO Groupe financier.

Les salaires varieront en fonction de facteurs comme l’emplacement, les compétences, l’expérience, les études et les qualifications pour le poste et pourront inclure une structure de commissions. Les salaires pour les postes à temps partiel seront calculés au prorata du nombre d’heures travaillées régulièrement. Pour les rôles à commission, le salaire susmentionné représente la cible de BMO Groupe financier pour la première année au poste.

La rémunération totale offerte par BMO variera selon le type de rémunération associé au poste et peut comprendre des primes de rendement, des primes discrétionnaires ainsi que d’autres avantages et récompenses. BMO offre également une assurance santé, le remboursement des frais de scolarité, une assurance accident et une assurance vie, ainsi que des régimes d’épargne‑retraite. Pour en savoir plus sur nos avantages sociaux, consultez le site :

À propos de nous

À BMO, nous sommes animés par une raison d’être commune : Avoir le cran de faire une différence dans la vie, comme en affaires. Cette raison d’être nous invite à entraîner des changements positifs et durables pour nos clients, nos collectivités et nos gens. En travaillant ensemble, en innovant et en repoussant les limites, nous transformons des vies et des entreprises et favorisons la croissance économique partout dans le monde.

En tant que membre de l'équipe de BMO, vous êtes valorisé, respecté et entendu, et vous avez plus de moyens pour progresser et obtenir des résultats. Nous nous efforçons de vous aider à obtenir des résultats dès le premier jour, pour vous-même et nos clients. Nous vous offrirons les outils et les ressources dont vous avez besoin pour franchir de nouvelles étapes, car vous aidez nos clients à franchir les leurs. Au moyen de formation et de coaching approfondis ainsi que de soutien de la direction et d'occasions de réseautage, nous vous aiderons à acquérir une expérience enrichissante et à élargir votre groupe de compétences.

Pour en savoir plus, visitez-nous à l'adresse .

BMO s'engage à offrir un milieu de travail inclusif, équitable et accessible. Nous apprenons de nos différences et tirons notre force des gens et de leurs différents points de vue. Des mesures d’adaptation sont disponibles sur demande pour les candidats qui participent à tous les aspects du processus de sélection. Pour demander des mesures d’adaptation, veuillez communiquer avec votre recruteur.

Remarque aux recruteurs : BMO n’accepte pas les curriculum vitæ non sollicités provenant de toute source autre que le candidat directement. Tout curriculum vitæ non sollicité envoyé à BMO, directement ou indirectement, sera considéré comme la propriété de BMO. BMO ne paiera aucuns frais pour les placements découlant de la réception d’un curriculum vitæ non sollicité. Une agence de recrutement doit d’abord détenir une entente de service écrite valide et dûment signée avant d’envoyer des curriculum vitæ.

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