Director, Business Management

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What You’ll Be Doing:

The US Business Management group provides direct day-to-day support for CIBC’s US Global Markets business. The group’s primary role is to assist in achieving the mandate to be a premier, client-focused global bank.

The Business Management group serves as the primary liaison between the Front Office Trading groups and the Sales desks, as well as their internal and external vendors, brokers and suppliers. Our group supports the US Trade Floor businesses with revenue generating initiatives and internal projects in an effort to drive and sustain profitability. US Business Management also strives to ensure a sound control environment and provides sound advice in support of business strategy. This role will be the lead Business Manager for multiple Trading Product areas but will focus on our growing Securitization business. As such, the ideal candidate will have a background in some securitized products, namely CLO, ABS, RMBS and CRE. 

How You’ll Succeed:

• Prioritize, direct and implement assignments / projects / initiatives, and resolve issues / problems to ensure Traders and Sales staff can focus on the specialized roles for which they have been employed;

• Manage and drive product and desk expansions in support of US strategic growth plans; coordinate and draft project plans and business requirements for new initiatives while ensuring compliance with CIBC’s Change Initiative Risk Assessment (CIRA) process as mandated;

• Be responsive and accessible to the business throughout the day; be proactive in response to information requests and promptly resolve any day-to-day service or business related issues;

• Build and maintain working relationships with stakeholders across the different businesses our team supports (e.g., Equity Markets, Commodities, Fixed Income, Treasury, etc), including up to Senior Management levels;

• Partner with cross-functional groups (Middle Office, Finance, Operations, Human Resources, Technology, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit) to resolve issues, improve efficiencies, promote business objectives, and execute positive results; help identify and escalate issues/risks/dependencies and facilitate communication across teams;

• Coordinate and contribute to responses of various internal and external auditor / regulator requests, findings and reports; remain apprised of the ever changing and applicable regulations and laws; ensure regulatory requirements and CIBC policies are understood, implemented and monitored successfully;

• Manage an effective and documented internal control structure is in place, as evidenced through updates and maintenance of desk policies and procedures as well as adherence to, and successful testing of, internal controls and logical access reviews; maintain, support and enhance the in