Optimussbr

Optimussbr

Senior Associate - Financial Services Group

Toronto · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$100k-$130kDetected 5 days ago
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About the role

  • Join a dynamic and engaging team that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and growth.
  • If you're passionate about solving complex problems, supporting teams, and delivering practical, high-impact solutions, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and support consulting engagements for financial services clients across banking, capital markets, insurance, payments, wealth management, and related sectors.
  • Manage defined project workstreams, including planning activities, assigning tasks, monitoring progress, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality work.
  • Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate business challenges, identify opportunities, and develop practical, evidence-based recommendations.
  • Facilitate stakeholder interviews, working sessions, and workshops to gather requirements, validate findings, and build alignment around proposed solutions.
  • Design future-state processes, operating models, implementation roadmaps, governance structures, and performance measures aligned with client objectives.
  • Develop clear, concise, and visually effective presentations, reports, financial models, business cases, process maps, and other client-ready deliverables.
  • Support project governance through status reporting, risk and issue management, decision tracking, resource coordination, and stakeholder communications.
  • Build effective working relationships with client stakeholders and communicate confidently with project teams, managers, and senior leaders.
  • Support business development activities, including proposal development, scoping, research, and the preparation of client-facing materials.
  • Collaborate with a team of professionals from unique backgrounds, fostering innovation.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of progressive experience in management consulting, financial services, business transformation, strategy, operations, project delivery, or a related field.
  • Strong understanding of the financial services industry, including one or more of banking, capital markets, insurance, payments, wealth management, risk, compliance, or financial operations.
  • Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and translate findings into practical recommendations.
  • Experience supporting, coaching, or providing direction to junior team members.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
  • Experience with process mapping, financial modelling, data analysis, visualization, project management, or collaboration tools is considered an asset.
  • Demonstrated experience leading project workstreams or coordinating teams in a consulting, financial services, or complex corporate environment.
  • Experience gathering requirements, assessing processes, conducting research, analyzing data, and developing future-state solutions.
  • Ability to create professional, persuasive, and executive-ready presentations, reports, business cases, and other client deliverables.
  • Strong facilitation, written communication, and verbal presentation skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with clients and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at different organizational levels.
  • Strong project management, organizational, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
  • Demonstrated initiative, sound judgement, intellectual curiosity, adaptability, and ownership.
  • Ability to demonstrate the bold, entrepreneurial, hard-working, and client-focused behaviours that support Optimus SBR's culture.

Nice to have

  • Post-Graduate degree, MBA, CPA, CFA or other relevant designations
  • or equivalent experience
  • Interview recording & AI notetakers
  • To protect privacy, legal compliance, and interviewer/candidate experience, the use of these tools is not permitted without your prior consent.
  • We will ask for your consent and if you wish to decline, handwritten notes are welcome.

Compensation

  • Salary range is $100,000-130,000 CAD
  • Salary ranges are designed to be competitive.
  • Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, and experience and is subject to negotiation and subject to the candidate meeting the specific requirements or the role.
  • Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role.
  • Maternity and Parental Leave with top up compensation

Benefits

  • Build your career through challenging, impactful projects and continuous learning.
  • A Taste of Some of the Great Benefits at Optimus
  • Retirement savings through our Group RRSP program
  • Company equity for Managers and above
  • Top-tier health benefits
  • Life & disability insurance
  • Health Spending Dollars

Company info

  • Optimus SBR is a leading management consulting firm and award-winning workplace where we help organizations get done what isn't.
  • Our team of committed consultants takes swift action to deliver innovative, impactful results. As the largest independently owned Canadian management consulting firm, we are a place where people and culture come first. Our success is driven by attracting individuals who are insatiably Curious, Entrepreneurial Thinkers, Authentic, and Bold.
  • Our Awards and Recognitions:
  • Best Workplaces™ in Canada National List 2026
  • Our team of committed consultants takes swift action to deliver innovative, impactful results.
  • As the largest independently owned Canadian management consulting firm, we are a place where people and culture come first.
  • Our success is driven by attracting individuals who are insatiably Curious, Entrepreneurial Thinkers, Authentic, and Bold.
  • Best Workplaces™ with the Most Trusted Executive Team 2026
  • Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent 2026
  • Best Workplaces™ for Women 2026
  • Best Workplaces™ in Professional Services 2025
  • Globe and Mail - Canada's Top Growing Companies 2025
  • Waterstone Human Capital - Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures™ 2025
  • Culture is Everything.
  • That's why we've been consistently rated one of the best places to work in North America - and are one of the fastest growing.
  • As a firm that was built on culture, we value our people and their growth.
  • Each of us embody the entrepreneurial spirit and have something unique to contribute to the fabric of our organization.
  • From employee-championed committees to celebratory events and learning paths, these are just a few of the ways we cultivate a positive and engaging work environment.
  • What's in It for You?
  • Growth Opportunities: Build your career through challenging, impactful projects and continuous learning.
  • Diverse Workplace: Collaborate with a team of professionals from unique backgrounds, fostering innovation.
  • Flexibility and Autonomy: Enjoy the freedom to take ownership of your work and drive meaningful results.
  • Leadership Development: Develop your skills through mentorship and career progression opportunities.

Equal opportunity

  • We're committed to diversity and inclusion, welcoming people from all backgrounds.

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