Business Effectiveness Project Manager

We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

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What you'll be doing

As a member of CIBC’s team, Business Effectiveness is responsible for contributing to projects that impact the business through in-depth research analysis, interpretation, documentation, and advice on moderately complex business information. The role applies subject matter expertise to consult with the business on process improvements, leading the technical development to deliver high quality processes and procedures while ensuring compliance with CIBC requirements standards, work practices, processes, security standards and policies. Business Effectiveness uses independent judgement to provide guidance to project teams, applying a comprehensive, conceptual and practical understanding of the area of specialization to a wide range of business and technical situations while analyzing business performance. The role participates in risk management and cost optimization projects, supporting the execution of a satisfactory risk plan that incorporates successful audit, and continuous audit and monitoring.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How you'll succeed

• Review contingency plans submitted by the business units to ensure completeness, adherence to guidance and accuracy and consistency with BCM policy

• Conduct quality assurance checks against defined criteria including minimum business continuity objectives, maximum allowable outage, RTP/RPO alignment, ownership clarity and plan sustainability

• Work closely with the BCM team to ensure contingency plans align with enterprise-level standards and regulatory expectations

• Provide feedback and guidance to the business stakeholders on required plan updates, remediation of the gaps and improved opportunities

• Track the status of plan submissions, QA results and follow up actions for closure

• Support testing and validation process by working closely with the BCM team. Include relevant recovery procedures for all disruption scenarios

• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of the contingency planning template, QA checklists and governance and reporting

• Collaborate with risk, compliance and resilience teams as needed

Who you are

• You have a degree/diploma in Computer Science, Business, and/or a related field, and you’ve spent at least 3 years in a BSC role leading projects and designing solutions. It’s an asset if you have experience with Agile methodologies, and Application and/or Architecture Development.

• You have knowledge of financial markets including Stock, Option, Fi