VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCING - GTA Central & East

Business Development Bank of Canada; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian financial institution is seeking a Vice President Financing to drive their financing and advisory services. The role includes developing strategies for market presence, managing client relationships, and leading diverse teams. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in financial services with strong leadership skills and the ability to inspire teams. Join a diverse and inclusive environment committed to supporting Canadian entrepreneurs.

Benefits

Flexible and competitive benefits including an Employee Savings Plan

Defined Benefit Pension Plan

$750 wellness and health care spending account

Paid vacation and personal days

Opportunities for learning and development

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant experience in financial services with a focus on entrepreneurs.
• Strong communication skills and ability to attract and motivate teams.
• Bilingualism in English & French is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sales and marketing plans for advisory services.
• Ensure alignment of initiatives with corporate objectives.
• Foster relationships with professional networks and stakeholders.

Skills

Change Management

Financial Services

Senior Leadership

Leadership Experience

Negotiation

Analytics

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Commerce, Finance, or Business Administration

Job description

Choosing BDC as your employer means working in a healthy inclusive and skilled workplace that puts forward the best conditions to bring together unique teams where employees are empowered to act. It also means being at the centre of ambitious economic and financial projects to see further and to do things differently to fuel the success of Canadian entrepreneurs.

Choosing BDC as your employer also means :

Flexible and competitive benefits including an Employee Savings and Investment Plan where BDC matches part of your voluntary contributions a Defined Benefit Pension Plan a $750 wellness and health care spending account to name a few

In addition to paid vacation each year five personal days sick days as necessary and our offices are closed from December 25 to January 1

A hybrid work model that truly balances work and personal life

Opportunities for learning training and development and much more...

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Vice President Financing with the Senior Vice President Financing and his leadership team takes a leadership role and represents the Financing team in ensuring alignment of initiatives and projects that enable the achievement of business objectives as well as corporate priorities.

CHALLENGES TO BE MET

Leadership

Develop and implement a sales and marketing plan to ensure that the strategy for financing and advisory services is realized for your region.

Work closely and facilitate collaboration between your teams with partner groups : BDC Growth and Transition Capital BDC Advisory and BDC Corporate Finance to identify businesses with significant growth potential and opportunities for BDC to serve their needs.

Participate in positioning BDC as a leadingedge business development organization by developing and implementing strategies for the territory ensuring alignment with the regional strategy.

Develop and foster relationships with professional networks financial and business communities suppliers and counterparts of other organizations to keep abreast of emerging trends and their relevance to BDC.

Use your business acumen to make informed decisions and build strong relationships with key stakeholders both inside and outside BDC.

Ensure accountability for compliance to business rules policies and procedures in all aspects of the life of a loan (business development underwriting security & disbursement and administration & relationship).

Position your teams and leaders to be trusted advisors to Canadian Entrepreneurs by helping them access advice create connections and obtain financing solutions.

Create an enabling inclusive and ambitious environment for BDC teams to thrive and work together.

Provide leadership that inspires teams and cleary communicates the BDC value proposition.

Market

Optimize productivity by ensuring the proper allocation of resources for acquisition of new client relationships and lead the Business Activity Management exercise for the teams.

Develop and implement tactical initiatives to help clients grow by adding value through knowledge advice and additional financing ensuring that repeat and retention goals are optimized while balancing profit and risk.

Plan and manage the visibility efforts to enhance and maximize BDCs presence in the marketplace.

In line with BDCs strategies maximize efforts to focus on helping underserved entrepreneur markets with BDC products and services.

Maintain a visible market presence as a senior leader representing BDC in your market actively participating in events and professional networks.

Act as an advocate for SMEs in the market.

People

Develop and implement a strategy to ensure that the organization and clients needs are met through talent management employee engagement total rewards learning and development and career and performance management.

Ensure BDCs recruiting efforts offer opportunities for diversity and are representative of the communities in which BDC does business.

Develop and maintain effective communication channel to ensure the timely dissemination of information implementation of initiatives and achievement of objectives.

Direct and lead the change strategy by supporting BDC projects processes and orientations on the delivery of services in your territory.

Encourage continuous growth of leaders through coaching and development.

Results Profits and Risk

Monitor key variables for the successful delivery of financial and advisory services offer throughout the territory and act to ensure that objectives are met.

Lead and be accountable for the profitability of the portfolio and the advisory services practice through the levers of fees interest rates and the efficiency targets through productivity and expense management.

Ensure sound risk management of the portfolio through balanced acquisition efforts in loan structuring due diligence and risk mitigation and manage risk of existing clients.

Possess strong credit capability to advise on differentiated credit solutions for businesses while appropriately mitigating the banks risk.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Bachelors or Masters degree in Commerce or Finance or Business Administration

15 years of relevant experience working in financial services with entrepreneurs and people leadership

Strong communication skills and positive influence

Ability to attract recruit and motivate top talent and teams

Strong thinking skills and strategic implementation and execution

Ability to work independently and meet deadlines

Ability to develop enable and lead client centric teams with specific sales target

Highly organized and proactive

Bilingualism (English & French) is an asset

CPA CFA and / or post graduate studies is an asset

Proudly one of Canadas Top 100 Employers and one of Canadas Best Diversity Employers we are committed to fostering a diverse equitable inclusive and accessible environment where all employees can thrive and feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work. If you require an accommodation to complete your application please do not hesitate to contact us at .

While we appreciate all applications we advise that only the candidates selected to participate in the recruitment process will be contacted.

Required Experience :

Chief

Key Skills

Change Management,Financial Services,Growing Experience,Managed Care,Management Experience,Analysis Skills,Senior Leadership,Performance Management,Process Management,Leadership Experience,negotiation,Analytics

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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