*This position is open to applicants across Canada*
About Celero
Celero is a leading provider of IT solutions to financial institutions across Canada. A full-service IT shop, Celero provides complete banking solutions, IT planning, systems integration, hosting, support, maintenance and professional services to meet the unique needs of financial institutions of all sizes and delivers world-class reliability through our Canadian-based data centres, employees and operations.
Celero is consistently ranked among the world’s top financial technology companies on the annual FinTech 100 list.
Your Opportunity
As Director, Core Banking you will be responsible for delivery of Celero’s current premier core banking system to existing and new clients that today represents over 80 credit unions and financial institutions in Canada. Responsibility areas include day to day operations; enhancements; release management; conversions and mergers. In addition, you will be accountable for working with Celero’s Architectural Team and Core Banking’s Technical Director, Celero’s customers, industry peers and internal stakeholders to shape Celero’s future Core Banking Strategy. This role will contribute to other strategic initiatives such as Open Banking and Payments Modernization to ensure coordinated delivery with the Core Banking suite of products.
A Day in the Life
Reporting to the Vice President, Core Banking, Payments & Cards, you will be responsible for defining Celero’s future customer experience, service development functions and ensuring a consistent approach to the market while collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
You will be responsible to ensure stability of the core banking system by meeting customer expectations and SLA’s through continuous improvement initiatives. You will also be the sponsors of varied projects focused on delivering new features and capabilities onto the platform.
On an ongoing basis you will meet with clients, vendor partners, internal stakeholders and investigate best practices and new ideas in the financial services area. You will actively research related technology and market trends and financial sector solution developments. From these discussions, and your knowledge, you will define the vision for Celero’s future product and service portfolio of the core banking area and provide customers a vision of what that future would look like and how it will enable their success. You will work with the product management team to translate future plans into product development priorities and drive development projects through internal gating processes. In addition to market research, you will monitor competition, follow market trends and generate market insights. You are forward looking with a focus on greater customer enablement and profitable growth.
Your experience in leading teams providing operational delivery of core banking products and services with a view on the future; and your ability to act as a knowledge expert in new areas of financial services will provide leadership to Celero and our customers.
In terms of aligning your role and responsibilities with Celero’s business strategy and plan, you will act as a collaborative partner with the leads for each of the other initiatives in the company’s business plan. In this capacity, you will be the central point within Celero to identify dependencies and ensure alignment among the various teams to effectively prioritize work to advance the business plan, while ensuring effective use of time and resources and the achievement of key measures of success.
You will have Profit & Loss responsibility for the Core Banking Line of Business, contributing to Celero’s annual strategic and budget planning cycle. Monitoring and reporting of same on a monthly basis.
Your Resume
- Experience working with C-suite customers and understanding their business strategies/problems.
- Track record of delivering measurable results through product growth and development initiatives.
- Strategic thinker, with exposure to industry strategy development.
- Experience working in the financial services industry with a focus on core banking systems; products and services.
- Exceptional written and oral communications skills.
- The ideal candidate will have a combination of continuous education and 10+ years of experience in Financial Services.
- Experience in operational delivery of core banking suite of products and services.
- Demonstrated success leveraging partners to deliver new solutions.
- Previous success developing strategies and working with stakeholders to execute.
- Facilitator of needs analysis and with a large number of stakeholders.
- Leading large teams of experienced professionals, ability to build a strong cohesive team with focus on client satisfaction.
- P&L responsibility for a large portfolio.
- Vendor management experience an asset.
Our Expectations
We have high expectations of all Celero employees and strive to recruit applicants with the following characteristics:
- Strong analytic skills coupled with innovative thinking, and a bias for action.
- Ability to drive clarity out of ambiguous situations.
- An ability to build strong professional relationships with peers, leaders and clients.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills resulting in the ability to work effectively with both technical and business professionals.
- Self-starter who drives positive change and can drive clarity out of confusion.
- Ability to lead in a matrixed environment.
To Apply
Please visit our career board at https://celero.applicantpro.com/jobs no later than October 28, 2022.
We wish to thank all applicants for their interest, however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.