Managing Director & Team Lead, Commercial Banking (Corporate Finance Group)

BMO•Toronto, ON

1d•CA$110,500 - CA$192,500•Onsite

About The Position

This role provides strategic leadership and oversight to a team of Senior Relationship Managers, guiding the execution of client coverage, portfolio management, and business development activities across a complex and high-value corporate client base. The incumbent is accountable for setting direction, driving performance, and elevating the team’s ability to originate and structure sophisticated credit solutions while deepening client relationships. By partnering closely with their team, this leader ensures consistent delivery of growth objectives through effective cross-sell execution, disciplined risk management, and strong client engagement. They play a critical role in coaching and developing talent, enhancing the team’s commercial acumen, and aligning individual performance with broader business strategy. Operating as a key leader within the coverage model, this individual fosters collaboration across product groups and functions to deliver integrated, client-centric solutions. Their leadership ensures that relationship teams are optimized to identify opportunities, expand share of wallet, and deliver sustainable, risk-adjusted returns, while maintaining the highest standards of client service and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant experience in Relationship Management, Account Management or Portfolio Management in a corporate or similar segmented banking environment with sales metrics is preferred.
Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred, CPA certification preferred; Business Administration, Finance and Accounting preferred.
Any other related discipline or commensurate work experience considered.
Seasoned expert with extensive industry knowledge.
Technical leader viewed as a thought leader for innovation.
Expert level of proficiency: Product Knowledge
Expert level of proficiency: Regulatory Compliance
Expert level of proficiency: Structuring Deals
Expert level of proficiency: Portfolio Management
Expert level of proficiency: Credit Risk Assessment
Expert level of proficiency: Project Management
Expert level of proficiency: Change Management
Expert level of proficiency: Customer Service
Expert level of proficiency: Stakeholder Management
Expert level of proficiency: Negotiation
Expert level of proficiency: Customer Relationship Building

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred
CPA certification preferred
Business Administration, Finance and Accounting preferred

Responsibilities

Facilitates growth for the Bank through business development and management of key client relationships.
Maintains an outstanding and continuous record of significant revenue generation from sales and syndications.
Acts as an escalation point for complex client issues, using strategic problem-solving to resolve conflicts and maintaining strong client relationships.
Leads the structuring of high-value, complex deals, and credit approvals, ensuring alignment with client needs.
Manages high-value client portfolios, driving cross-selling, retention, and profitability.
Drives efforts to identify new business opportunities, acquire clients, penetrate markets, and expand the client base by leveraging market insights, competitor analysis, and cross-selling initiatives.
Leads market coverage strategies to expand portfolios, identify opportunities, and align with business goals.
Represents bank at industry forums and conferences, leveraging insights on trends, competition, and emerging products to drive strategic decision-making.
Advises in various committees and task forces, providing strategic insights and guidance to drive key initiatives.
Streamlines operational processes, identifying areas for improvement and implementing best practices.
Develops communication strategies to influence stakeholders and support organizational change.
Oversees resource allocation for the team, ensuring effective use of personnel and budgets to meet organizational goals, enhance team performance, and drive client satisfaction.
Builds and maintains strong long-term relationships with the bank’s high-value and strategic clients, providing strategic advice on financial solutions and ensuring exceptional service and partnership.
Structures deals, secures credit approvals, negotiates high-value transactions, and identifies opportunities for cross-selling.
Analyzes market trends, client industry developments, and competitive positioning to inform client solution strategies and optimize client satisfaction.
Works closely with internal teams and stakeholders to define products, solutions and strategies that best fit clients’ needs.
Identifies share of wallet opportunities.
Leverages analysis tools to nurture and grow a portfolio that exceeds ROE thresholds and evaluates client returns on a proactive basis.
Ensures adherence to regulatory requirements, internal controls, and compliance policies in all aspects of relationship management, mitigating risk and maintaining service standards.
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.
Communicates abstract concepts in simple terms.
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.
Take measured risks while protecting the bank by applying our Risk Management Framework in the execution of your role, in line with our Risk Culture and within our approved Risk Appetite, making sound and risk informed decisions that align to business strategy, protect assets, and adhere to applicable policy documents (Frameworks, Policies, Standards, Procedures and Supporting documents), laws and regulations.