Director, Business Intelligence

Application Deadline:

08/28/2025

Address:

100 King Street West

Job Family Group:

Data Analytics & Reporting

The Financial Crimes Unit is seeking a strategic and technically strong  Director, Business Intelligence to elevate how we use data to identify, visualize, and communicate financial crimes risks. You will play a key role in  the business intelligence and analytics infrastructure build-out.  You will provide thoughtful analysis and lead the design and delivery of dashboards, performance metrics, and insights to manage risks.  You will help the Financial Crimes Unit make smarter and faster prevention and detection decisions while enabling the business to grow.

As our next Director of Business Intelligence, you won’t just be interpreting data — you’ll be shaping how we prevent crime, detect risk, and protect our customers and institution. You will lead the transformation of our analytics ecosystem, designing strategies and solutions that empower smarter, faster, and more proactive decisions.

This is more than a leadership role — it’s a chance to be at the forefront of how data drives security, strategy, and growth.

Why Join Us?

• Purpose with Power: Use your data expertise to help safeguard the financial system by detecting threats, preventing fraud, and enabling responsible business growth.

• Strategic Influence: Work directly with senior leaders to define and execute a high-impact analytics strategy. Your insights will drive critical decisions.

• Innovation at Scale: Help build the foundational Business Intelligence and Analytics infrastructure — not just dashboards and metrics, but an entire ecosystem that unlocks intelligence across the organization.

• End-to-End Ownership: From evaluating current processes to delivering advanced visualizations, you’ll own the full analytics lifecycle and elevate how we use data.

• Technical Excellence: Work hands-on with large, complex datasets using tools like SQL, SAS, Power BI, and Tableau to tell compelling stories through data.

• Leadership & Growth: Lead a high-performing team while continuing to grow your own capabilities in a dynamic and rapidly evolving data landscape.

Join a team where your vision, strategy, and technical skill will make a measurable difference — not just in business outcomes, but in building a safer financial future.

This is a Hybrid role. Currently, there is a min. requirement of 2 days in the office, but this may increase based on BMO’s direction.  

Responsibilities:

• Regularly using Data Lakes to clean, transform, and present the results into a dashboard

• Identifies trends and patterns to address identified business questions and provide insights through reporting and data visualization techniques.

• Regularly building data visualization dashboards such as Power BI, Tableau, Splunk or similar tools. 

• Managing, analyzing, and communicating results to senior leadership and business stakeholders. 

• Lead a team of data analytics and reporting professionals. 

• Works with other data and analytics professionals to optimize, refine, automate, and scale analysis into repeatable analytics solutions and decision support tools.

• Builds various reporting dashboards using the most appropriate data extraction, data cleaning and data visualisation techniques.

• Provides value through insights, reporting and data visualization techniques.

• Selects, configures and implements analytics solutions for consistency and repeatability.

• Researches and applies continuous improvement in data visualization by identifying trends and patterns to transform raw data into actionable business insights.

• Works with different teams, management and stakeholders to enhance the usability and aesthetic appeal of data analytics solutions deployed in the organization.

• Translates business needs to technical specifications and evaluates existing data visualization systems in order to improve them.

• Develops data visualizations of "large" amounts of data that facilitate the intuitive presentation of data to decision makers.

• Documents data flow, systems and processes to improve the design, implementation and management of business/group processes.

• Develops tools and delivers training programs for use of reporting tools and self-serve analytics by non-analytical end users; may include delivery of training to audiences.

• Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do

• Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.

• Regularly connects work to BMO’s purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.

• Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.

• Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent

• Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance.

• Operates at a group/enterprise-wide level and serves as a senior specialist resource across BMO.

• Influences how teams/groups work together.

• Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to multiple, interdependent, complex problems.

• Fosters strong internal and external networks and works with and across multiple teams to achieve business objectives.

• Anticipates trends and responds by implementing appropriate changes.

• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

Skills/Qualifications:

• 9+ years of experience within Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

• 5+ yrs of experience in people-leadership roles. Seasoned experience with leading, coaching and mentoring a team of business intelligence analysts is important.  

• Strong experience in partnering with business stakeholders to understand the problem and identify enhancement opportunities using data. 

• 7+ years of  experience with SQL and/or SAS programming to extract, transform, and clean large data sets.

• Knowledge in Data Science languages like Python, Random Forest is a plus

• Strong understanding technical design– able to dive into the business process to understand the current vs. future state

• 7+ years of expertise in Data Management – data extraction, cleaning, and transformation  

• 7+ years of expertise data analytics techniques

• 7+ years of expertise data flows, systems.

• 7+ years of expertise data designs

• Seasoned expert with extensive industry knowledge.

• Technical leader viewed as a thought leader for innovation.

Salary:

$103,500.00 - $192,500.00

Pay Type:

Salaried

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en.

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

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