ATB Financial Looking for Director, Strategic Initiatives at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Full Time

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Whatever it is, you won’t find a more genuine, driven and knowledgeable group of humans anywhere. We foster a culture of purpose, performance and possibilities. We engage with intense curiosity, and bring our whole selves to work, every day. We know it starts with people like you, so take a chance and start with us.

Job Number: REQ6399

Location: Calgary or Edmonton

Apply by: Tuesday July 4, 2023

Paygrade: N-OTH

# Positions available: 1

System Job Title: Strategy Analyst 9

Leader Name: AVP, Strategic Initiatives

As ATB’s next Director, Strategic Initiatives, you will support ATB’s strategy team and leadership to help translate broad challenges and opportunities into practical and strategic actions for ATB. This position works within the Strategy Team and with the wider organization to help identify and monitor these top-of-the-house priorities, and where necessary, help translate these opportunities into clear decisions for ATB. The value that this position helps create is a shared understanding of key opportunities, as well as alignment on the scope, scale, impact and the choices available to ATB. This role helps facilitate leaders, SLT and Board of Directors to a clear strategic decision and/or position.

Responsibilities

• Produce viewpoints on challenges and opportunities facing ATB’s business in alignment with overall enterprise strategy, with a focus on supporting ATB’s medium and long term strategic vision
• Conduct both primary and secondary research, with a focus on primary research, on factors which could impact ATB, including but not limited to technology, geopolitical, and economic trends, with the intent of identifying and monitoring strategically relevant trends
• Actively curate research and prioritize / deprioritize topics, based on likelihood and magnitude of impact to ATB, to ensure clear focus throughout the strategy team and more broadly throughout ATB
• Partner closely with CFO portfolio leadership and broader ATB leadership to ensure that external-facing research inputs are turned into actionable, internal-facing strategic viewpoints and decisions that prompt action throughout ATB, if required
• Lead & facilitate discussions seeking alignment of key stakeholders across ATB on ATB’s strategic positioning
• Collaborate with other business units and stakeholders at ATB on topics of impact, to ensure continuous alignment on those topics of impact
• Maintain a real-time view of projects / programs / products both internally and and externally that could change the magnitude or impact of a topic on ATB or Alberta, and use that information to regularly revisit decisions on magnitude or impact
• Author & contribute to executive- and board-ready presentations and other material based on the above responsibilities on a regular basis, and deliver those presentations to senior audiences either individually or as part of a team
• Actively contribute to enterprise strategy education at ATB via discussions and presentations on the above topics with other ATBers, as opportunities arise

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of experience. Experience in financial services, consulting, or corporate strategy strongly preferred
• Robust experience in strategy generation, analysis, and primary research
• Extensive experience developing and conducting presentations to senior-level audiences
• Experience with program and project design as well as the end to end transformation life-cycle of a financial services institution
• Experience working with stakeholders across an organization to find consensus strongly preferred

At ATB, we know that as you develop in your career, you gain many transferable skills. If you believe your experience and qualities are what we are looking for, please consider applying.

Interested? If you know one of our team members, reach out to them BEFORE applying and ask them for a referral link to help your application stand out.

Online applications are preferred. Please reach out if you require any accommodations.

Benefits

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We are dedicated to building a workforce reflective of the diversity within our communities and creating an environment where every team member has what they need to reach their potential. We encourage candidates from all equity-seeking groups to apply.

What happens next?

Thank you for applying online. If you are shortlisted for this opportunity, you will hear from us after the posting close date regarding next steps. We might ask you to participate in a digital interview or phone interview. If you require any accommodations, please let us know.

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