Business Operations

• Participate in three 5-month rotations across a variety of roles and functions
• Support research, development, implementation, and execution of business initiatives
• Analyze business challenges, identify opportunities, develop recommendations, and contribute to strategic projects across U.S. Banking and the COO organization
• Conduct market research, forecasting, pricing, and competitive analysis
• Monitor product and system performance and develop solutions
• Analyze product risks for legal, regulatory, risk compliance, and reporting requirements
• Collaborate with internal partners to take products to market
• Support strategic initiatives with internal and external stakeholders
• Conduct independent analysis and assessment to resolve strategic issues
• Build relationships and ensure alignment with stakeholders
• Design and produce regular and ad-hoc reports and dashboards
• Analyze data and information to provide insights and recommendations
• Monitor performance, develop metrics, identify trends, and address issues
• Support change management and operational program implementation
• Gather customer and sales feedback and analyze issues
• Evaluate market research, competitive analysis, customer insights, and channel information
• Act as day-to-day vendor contact and support vendor solution implementation and maintenance
• Resolve internal, first-level customer escalations
• Design, implement, manage, and enhance business processes and products throughout the product lifecycle
• Develop business cases, strategic roadmaps, product documentation, templates, and requirements
• Develop and monitor action plans to optimize financial performance
• Improve processes and customer experience
• Develop Salesforce training and materials and manage change
• Support sales teams with client deals and presentations
• Develop marketing strategies, offers, and campaigns
• Influence or determine credit product risk parameters and metrics
• Apply BMO’s Risk Management Framework and comply with policies, laws, and regulations

Business & Operations Development Specialist – New Grad

• Participate in a 16-month Business & Operations Development Program with three 5-month rotations
• Support research, development, implementation, and execution of business initiatives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across U.S. Banking and the COO organization
• Analyze business challenges, identify opportunities, develop recommendations, and contribute to strategic projects
• Conduct market research, forecasting, pricing, and competitive analysis
• Monitor product and system performance and develop solutions to assessed problems
• Analyze product risks in compliance with legal, regulatory, and risk requirements
• Support strategic initiatives with internal and external stakeholders
• Conduct independent analysis and assessment to resolve strategic issues
• Build relationships and ensure alignment with stakeholders
• Design and produce regular and ad-hoc reports and dashboards
• Monitor performance, address issues, and support change management
• Provide input into operational program planning and implementation
• Support development of key metrics and identification of trends
• Gather customer and sales feedback and analyze issues
• Evaluate market research, competitive intelligence, customer insights, and channel information
• Complete internal and regulatory reporting
• Act as day-to-day vendor contact and support vendor solution implementation and maintenance
• Resolve internal, first-level customer escalations
• Design, implement, manage, and enhance core business processes and products throughout the product lifecycle
• Develop business cases, strategic roadmaps, key metrics, action plans, product documentation, templates, and requirements
• Support salesforce training, materials, client deals, and related presentations
• Develop and maintain relationships with external partners and vendors
• Create marketing strategies, offers, and campaigns with Marketing and other partners
• Influence or determine credit product risk parameters and metrics
• Apply BMO’s Risk Management Framework and make risk-informed decisions aligned with business strategy and applicable policies and regulations

Business & Operations Development Specialist

• Design, configure, test and maintain S/4HANA and connected SAP/non-SAP Finance applications throughout their lifecycle
• Serve as the primary IT point of contact for SAP Finance across a multi-country S/4HANA global implementation
• Map local Financial, Controllership and Taxation processes to the S/4HANA Global Template
• Define functional and non-functional system requirements
• Collaborate with ERP and IT BPEs, Solution Engineers and Architects to re-imagine and implement compliant, secure, performant and maintainable processes
• Translate process designs into SAP S/4HANA system designs, including RISE and SAP Cloud-enabled solutions
• Write system design, technical design, functional design, requirements traceability and test documentation
• Implement legal, statutory, regulatory and tax-driven reporting changes through projects and enhancements
• Configure GL, cFIN, tax calculation, SAP DRC and BPC reporting functionality
• Design and configure integrations with SAP/non-SAP Business Warehouse, Data Lake and reporting solutions such as Power BI and Alteryx
• Perform unit, SIT, UAT, regression and performance testing
• Identify process and system dependencies during new SAP functionality implementations
• Manage periodic SAP upgrades through evaluation, regression testing and deployment
• Support SAP Financial Reporting security role definition and authorization objects
• Contribute to cross-platform AI, automation, reporting and analytics projects
• Resolve and escalate production issues and business disruptions
• Maintain global SAP solutions through end-of-life and replacement by S/4HANA

SAP Financial Reporting and Taxation Business Process Expert

• Run the day-to-day financial operations of clients, including general ledger, payables, receivables, payroll, collections, and financial reporting
• Monitor the team’s use of internal procedures, processes, and controls
• Manage onshore and offshore staff performing transactional activities, technical accounting activities, and data synthesis for client reports and analyses
• Assist in preparing financial statements in compliance with official guidelines and requirements
• Manage communications with vendors, customers, partners, shareholders, banks, and other interested parties
• Manage journal entries and reconciliations, coordinating monthly and annual closing processes
• Assist in preparing budgets and forecasts
• Review accounting information to identify and resolve inaccuracies or imbalances
• Convert customers to new accounting systems and perform cleanup activities on client books and records
• Advise and assist with technical accounting decisions
• Develop models and analyses for client requests
• Drive continuous improvement of internal operations by developing process, technology, or structural improvements

Manager – Life Science, Business Process Outsourcing

• Develop and execute the global business systems strategy and roadmap for core applications
• Lead a team of business systems analysts, architects, administrators, and technical leads
• Partner with executive and business leaders to identify technology opportunities and process improvements
• Oversee implementation, enhancement, integration, and support of enterprise applications
• Manage global business systems projects, priorities, budgets, and resources
• Establish governance, standards, and best practices for enterprise systems
• Drive adoption of automation, analytics, AI, and digital transformation initiatives
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, security, and compliance
• Manage relationships with software vendors, implementation partners, and service providers
• Develop KPIs and performance metrics to measure business value and operational effectiveness
• Lead change management, communication, and user adoption efforts for strategic initiatives
• Establish priorities and roadmaps for enterprise business systems
• Approve business system enhancements, integrations, and technology solutions
• Make resource allocation and staffing decisions within approved budgets
• Determine governance standards, support models, and operational processes
• Recommend enterprise application investments and modernization strategies
• Influence business process transformation and digital innovation initiatives
• Escalate significant financial, security, compliance, or enterprise architecture risks
• Serve as the primary leader and decision-maker for the organization’s global business systems portfolio

Business Operations jobs in Illinois

Business & Operations Development Specialist – New Grad

Business & Operations Development Specialist

SAP Financial Reporting and Taxation Business Process Expert

Manager – Life Science, Business Process Outsourcing

Senior Manager – Global Business Systems