Peoples Group
AVP Trust Services & CDIC
Peoples Group, Toronto, ON
About us:
Peoples Group is a boutique financial institution with offices located in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal that has been in the Canadian marketplace for over 35 years. Our mission is to exceed our customers' expectations by providing exceptional customer service backed by extensive product knowledge and experience.
Our culture here at Peoples Group is formed by our values: Trustworthy, Creative, Willing. We believe people don't choose a company to work for, they choose a company to join. We prioritize risk-based practices and procedures in order to remain risk intelligent and compliant. We value people, building relationships, and focusing on strengths; we execute with passion.
About the work environment:
Peoples Group offers a flexible and hybrid work environment. In this role you will work a combination of in-office and remotely from home. Typically, you'll be working regular business hours, Monday to Friday between 8:00am and 4:30pm with flexibility around start/end times.
We are hiring for this position out of our Toronto office. Successful candidates who reside in a location that is within a commutable distance (or who are willing to relocate) are strongly preferred.
About you:
You are excited to innovative new products and services, and establish an important, foundational set of capabilities for the Peoples Group of companies. You are passionate about shaping the long-term strategic direction and performance of our organization. You are experienced in building modern trust and deposits solutions, overseeing the integration with APIs and interfaces, ensuring the capabilities exist that enable operational effectiveness in both client-facing and back-office environments, and measuring up to cutting-edge developments in your industry.
As a people leader at Peoples Group, you are strength-based, engagement-focused and performance-oriented. People leaders understand themselves, their people, their subject matter, their outcomes and how their team's work contributes to the overall success of the organization.
About the qualifications
About the day-to-day:
Compensation:
Peoples Group is pleased to offer employees a competitive annual salary plus a discretionary profit share opportunity, and highly competitive benefits. Salary for this position will vary between $140,000.00 and $155,000.00 per year depending on the knowledge, skills, abilities and experience that the chosen candidate possesses. As part of our recruiting process, shortlisted candidates will be asked their salary expectations for this position.
Help us get to know you better by answering our application questions! Your participation is expected as an essential part of our selection process.
NOTE: Peoples Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest; however, only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.
Peoples Group is a boutique financial institution with offices located in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal that has been in the Canadian marketplace for over 35 years. Our mission is to exceed our customers' expectations by providing exceptional customer service backed by extensive product knowledge and experience.
Our culture here at Peoples Group is formed by our values: Trustworthy, Creative, Willing. We believe people don't choose a company to work for, they choose a company to join. We prioritize risk-based practices and procedures in order to remain risk intelligent and compliant. We value people, building relationships, and focusing on strengths; we execute with passion.
About the work environment:
Peoples Group offers a flexible and hybrid work environment. In this role you will work a combination of in-office and remotely from home. Typically, you'll be working regular business hours, Monday to Friday between 8:00am and 4:30pm with flexibility around start/end times.
We are hiring for this position out of our Toronto office. Successful candidates who reside in a location that is within a commutable distance (or who are willing to relocate) are strongly preferred.
About you:
You are excited to innovative new products and services, and establish an important, foundational set of capabilities for the Peoples Group of companies. You are passionate about shaping the long-term strategic direction and performance of our organization. You are experienced in building modern trust and deposits solutions, overseeing the integration with APIs and interfaces, ensuring the capabilities exist that enable operational effectiveness in both client-facing and back-office environments, and measuring up to cutting-edge developments in your industry.
As a people leader at Peoples Group, you are strength-based, engagement-focused and performance-oriented. People leaders understand themselves, their people, their subject matter, their outcomes and how their team's work contributes to the overall success of the organization.
About the qualifications
- 10+ years of experience working in deposits or product management for a trust company and/or directly with trust deposit arrangements or such product constructs.
- 5+ years of experience leading teams in a professional setting.
- Master's degree in finance, economics, business, or a related field. Alternatively, a background in software engineering with the prerequisite business or operational experience
- Proficiency in Agile and Scrum methodologies. Product Owner Certification (e.g. Certified Scrum), or similar, a definite asset.
- Strong experience with strategic planning and business casing, roadmap design, prioritized execution, and cross-functional collaboration, ideally with P&L accountability.
- Motivated, driven, self-starter. Ability to work independently with low level of supervision and the ability to determine when to escalate decisions to management.
- Demonstrated operational excellence in a dynamic environment with occasionally shifting priorities, while managing project delivery, costs, and financial performance.
- Familiarity with the requirements under the Trust and Loans Companies Act and the CDIC Act preferred.
About the day-to-day:
- Manage two business lines with significant growth potential (trust deposit products and depositor insurance coverage as a service), including product vision, strategic roadmap, pricing, P&L statement, and delivery priorities
- Manage, motivate and develop direct reports through ongoing performance development
- Manage a matrix delivery squad structure and ensure effective execution against business priorities (including sound, well-articulated requirements and strategic backlog management) within biweekly sprint cycles
- Design new products, scale core capabilities, and build repeatable processes
- Proactively manage risks, adherence to internal policies, demonstration of regulatory compliance, regulatory updates and inquiries (including those of the CDIC, which may cut across multiple business lines)
- Provide regular updates and comprehensive reports to senior leadership on the strategic direction, roadmap progress, team performance and business results
- Prioritize the products, services and capabilities are most important to have in place to ensure competitiveness in the market over various time horizons, based on a keen awareness of industry and regulatory changes
- Monitor and manage the top line and bottom line of your business to maximize profit to the organization, including maintaining an effective relationship with Treasury and Finance to ensure responsible management of the balance sheet and enhance your ability to operate.
Compensation:
Peoples Group is pleased to offer employees a competitive annual salary plus a discretionary profit share opportunity, and highly competitive benefits. Salary for this position will vary between $140,000.00 and $155,000.00 per year depending on the knowledge, skills, abilities and experience that the chosen candidate possesses. As part of our recruiting process, shortlisted candidates will be asked their salary expectations for this position.
Help us get to know you better by answering our application questions! Your participation is expected as an essential part of our selection process.
NOTE: Peoples Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest; however, only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.