Vice President, Strategy & Delivery, Personal Banking

EQ Bank | Canada's Challenger Bank; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

RRSP match

Medical benefits

ESPP

Parental top-up

Vacation days

Career development

FinTech experience

Job summary

EQ Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank, invites a strategic leader to shape the Personal Bank's 3-year strategy across products, experiences and loyalty, while driving capital planning and delivery through a disciplined PMO and executive governance. You will partner with product, finance and risk to align priorities with measurable outcomes and OKRs.

This hybrid role centers on defining strategy, prioritizing programs, and steering execution with senior leaders, ensuring profitability and sustainable

Qualifications

• 10+ years in corporate strategy, delivery/portfolio management, and financial services or a comparably regulated industry.
• Experience building or scaling a PMO/delivery function in an agile environment.
• Strong financial acumen including capital planning, budgeting and forecasting at portfolio level.
• Proven people leadership, including building teams from the ground up.
• Ability to influence senior executives amid ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead 3-year core strategy for the Personal Bank across products, experience and loyalty.
• Act as strategic partner translating insights into clear priorities linked to OKRs and results.
• Provide business management support to the EVP Personal Banking and senior leadership.
• Assess and prioritize strategic programs, turning concepts into fundable business cases.
• Lead quarterly planning, prepare board materials, and report on progress and forecasts.

Skills

Corporate strategy

PMO delivery

Agile leadership

Financial acumen

Executive influence

Job description

Join a Challenger

At EQ, we’re remaking banking so every Canadian gets ahead, every day. Serving nearly 4 million Canadians from coast to coast, we offer a wide variety of financial services from banking and lending, to trust and credit union solutions.

We’ve been at this since 1970, challenging the conventions of traditional banking with smarter, faster, and more connected financial experiences.

What’s kept us moving?

The people behind it all: challengers who ask better questions, push back on old assumptions, and look for a better way forward.

If you’re driven to help reshape how banking works for Canadians and the businesses that power our economy, this could be your next big opportunity.

We can’t wait to get to know you!

The Work

The Vice President, Strategy and Delivery will define core strategy for EQ’s Personal Bank (across products, experiences, and loyalty) and own execution through disciplined capital planning and delivery leadership. This newly created role builds the strategic and delivery backbone of the Personal Bank: leading the divisional PMO, prioritizing capex investment, and driving overall business strategy to strengthen core profitability behaviours.

Strategy

• Define and lead 3-year core strategy for the Personal Bank across products, experience, and loyalty expansion
• Act as strategic thought partner to business and product leaders, translating insight into clear priorities that align back to objectives and key results (OKRs) and measurable outcomes
• Provide business management support to the EVP Personal banking and to the broader Senior Leadership Team, including the regular cadence of management meetings, presentations and various executive forums
• Assess and prioritize core strategic programs taking them from concepts to fundable business cases
• Prepare quarterly board materials on strategic progress, key decisions, and outlook, as well as monthly progress updates to business leaders, reinforcing transparency and accountability
• Liaise with enterprise strategy and corporate development team to assess new business opportunities for the Personal Bank, including M&A activity
• Lead loyalty expansion strategy across all products to ensure rewards are used efficiently and purposefully to drive profitable behaviours critical to achieving commercialization and strategic priorities
• Chair and lead a new governance process for points usage, including proposal intake, evaluation criteria, and decision-making

Capital Planning

• Own planning and prioritization of all CapEx for the Personal Bank including leading an intake process with clear frameworks for evaluating proposals ahead of prioritization
• Govern a capital allocation framework aligning investment with strategic priorities and expected outcomes, holding business leaders accountable to the business case commitments behind funded initiatives
• Partner with Finance and Digital on budgeting, forecasting, and ongoing review of capex portfolio
• Evaluate resource demand against available capacity across the Personal Banking, Enterprise Technology, and vendors and align divisional capex plans with enterprise roadmaps and constraints
• Lead quarterly planning process (QBR) to oversee performance on projects and initiatives and ensure ongoing prioritization and allocation of resources and capital.
• Build and own the reporting against established OKRs as part of the quarterly planning process

Stakeholder & Risk Management

• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across Digital, Enterprise Technology, Finance, Risk, and business lines
• Influence and hold accountable senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority
• Apply the Bank’s risk appetite and culture to strategic, capital, and delivery decisions, ensuring compliance with operational and regulatory requirements

The Core Responsibilities!

• 10+ years in corporate strategy, delivery/portfolio management, and financial services or a comparably regulated industry
• Experience building or scaling a PMO/delivery function, and leading and working in agile operating environments
• Strong financial acumen, including capital planning, budgeting, and forecasting at a portfolio level
• Proven people leadership, including building teams from the ground up
• Ability to influence senior executives amid ambiguity

What we offer [For full-time permanent roles]

• Competitive discretionary bonus
• Market leading RRSP match program
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Maternity/Parental top-up while you care for your little one
• Generous vacation policy and personal days
• Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues
• Professional development and comprehensive Career Development program
• A fulfilling opportunity to join one of the top FinTechs and help create a new kind of banking experience

The incumbent will be working hybrid and in office time will be spent working from EQ Bank’s additional office space located at 2200-25 Ontario Street, Toronto, ON.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

EQ is committed to building an inclusive, accessible environment where every employee feels valued, respected, and supported. We believe our organization is stronger - and our people thrive - when we honour and celebrate diverse experiences, identities, and perspectives. We’re equally committed to supporting your growth, both professionally and personally.

We provide a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require accommodations at any stage, we will work with you to ensure you can bring your best self to the process and beyond.

As part of our recruitment process, EQ uses AI to help screen, assess, and/or select applicants for this position. All AI-enabled outputs are reviewed and validated by our talent team. All candidates considered for hire must successfully complete a criminal background check and credit check. While we appreciate every application, an EQ recruiter will contact only those whose skills and experience most closely match the requirements of the role.

EQB Inc. (TSX: EQB) is the parent company of Equitable Bank, the country’s seventh‑largest Schedule I bank by assets, which operates EQ Bank, Canada’s Challenger Bank. EQB Inc. serves nearly 4 million Canadians and manages approximately $150 billion in combined assets under management and administration.

To learn more, visit eqb.investorroom.com and eqbank.ca.