Director, Business Financing Solutions

Please note that the position is currently under evaluation.

As Director of Business Financing Solutions, you draw on your in-depth knowledge of the sector to manage a large unit. You are responsible for overseeing your unit’s service offer, developing and implementing its business plan, and overseeing activities supporting our strategic directions. A strategic mindset is therefore essential. You draw on your ability to develop talent, drive results and build networks to effectively manage people and performance, produce reports, and ensure member/client satisfaction. More specifically, you’re responsible for all activities that manage, update and modernize the Business Services sector’s financing solutions while representing the sector on partner projects that fall within this scope. You maximize investment potential, reduce complexity and speed up deliveries for all projects led by the administrative department. You manage the application portfolio for financing solutions. You envision how medium- and long-term solutions will develop to support and comply with business architecture targets, while ensuring everything is consistent with the sector’s growth and efficiency plan. Finally, you guide the transformation of processes within your administrative department. More specifically, you will be required to:

• Help your division define strategic directions for your sector, organize work and plan operational and special activities. 

• Ensure that your teams’ action plans and projects are carried out, with a focus on performance management.

• Define and oversee the implementation of activities related to your team’s services and ensure that projects under your responsibility are carried out in a way that maximizes business results and ensures member/client satisfaction.

• Support the unit’s business plan by managing individual and team performance and developing the talent of a multidisciplinary team that includes product owners (POs), business solutions advisors and business analysts.

• Promote certain projects under your supervision and help the managers in their role as promoters while creating value for our members and clients, aligning project scopes and goals, motivating teams, achieving expected benefits, managing interdependencies and risks, and balancing the need for quick wins with long-term added value.

• As the application business owner, ensure your team implements practices to manage business needs responsibly while also managing information security, risks, compliance, and the data for the applications under your authority. 

• Lead the development of a target for Business Services card and financing approval solutions that aligns with our vision of the business architecture, banking system modernization and digital transformation.

• Work with card solutions partners to ensure that the Business Services sector is represented in projects and help execute those that influence the sector.

• Maintain close relationships with external service providers and be able to influence their roadmap to meet the needs of Desjardins and its members and clients.

• Prepare files for presentation to the various decision-making bodies at Desjardins.

What we offer*

• Competitive salary and annual bonus

• 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year

• Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement

• Group insurance including telemedicine

• Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment

* Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria.

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What you bring to the table

• Bachelor's degree in a related field

• A minimum of ten years of relevant experience multidisciplinary and hierarchical teams, as well as managing large-scale, highly complex projects that involve major investments and require strategic management of multiple partners  

• Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered

• Experience in strategic consulting roles

• Knowledge of French is required

• Intermediate advanced proficiency of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients

• Knowledge of the business financing and banking sectors

• Knowledge of how to apply Agile project management principles

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At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity and inclusion. We're committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. At Desjardins, we have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. We believe our teams should reflect the diversity of the members, clients and communities we serve.

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