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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