Head of CMI CASO

Job title:

Head of CMI CASO

Company

Crédit Agricole

Job description

Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022).
8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank’s clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world.
Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade.
The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.For more information, please visit www.ca-cib.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ca_cib
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-agricole-cib/By working every day in the interest of society, we are a group committed to diversity and inclusion. All our positions are open to people with disabilities.Reference 2025-98214Publication date 20/03/2025Job descriptionBusiness typeTypes of Jobs – IT, Digital et DataJob titleHead of CMI CASOContract typePermanent ContractManagement positionYesJob summaryCapital Market IT (CMI) is in charge of the information systems for Global Markets Division (and affiliated partner support functions) covering all capital markets domains (from pre-trade to post trade through risk management and regulatory reportings). CMI covers all IT activities, ensuring applicative support to end-users, maintenance and evolution of the information system including ambitious and innovative transformation programs to accompany business growth while protecting and reinforcing current best-in class business franchises. Capital Market IT teams are distributed across the world, currently in Paris, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York.In perspective of Global Markets Division (GMD) ambitions, Capital Market IT is looking to reinforce its presence in North America, consolidating and reinforcing its workforce on Fixed Income e-trading, pricing and booking activities (Rates, Bonds, Repos) and securitization activities, as well as US-specific back office systems (payment, reconciliations). The new setup will encompass build and run activities, fostering autonomy while leveraging on global systems with an ambitious target of 100+ headcounts in 2026.As such, CMI is hiring its local Head in Montreal, Canada who will be responsible for putting in place a resilient and sustainable setup in line with CMI global sourcing strategy while embracing GMD new stakes. The local Head of CMI in Montreal will be a permanent member of CMI board.Local reporting to: Head of IT CanadaFunctional reporting to: Global Head of Capital Markets ITKey Responsibilities:Manage and lead Capital Market IT local setup resources ensuring the right balance between sourcing ambitions, business needs and skills

• Put in place the proper leadership structure to develop Montreal CMI setup and reach CMI sourcing ambitions in accordance with global CMI sourcing strategy
• Build and adjust sourcing capacity given business and IT constraints
• Contribute to proper onboarding of contractors with the help of Procurement
• Develop and accompany talents in their mission
• Foster an environment of trust and empowerment where transparency, feedbacks, open communication and innovated mindset are encouraged

Focus teams on delivery based on business value and core IT capacities

• Promote agility, product ownership and strong proximity with the business
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, be it around software factories, run activities or developer experience leveraging on Agility, Software Craftsmanship and DevSecOps

Be a gatekeeper of IT strategy in line with CMI Master Plan

• Co-build and adjust with the business, CMI Architecture team and CMI IT head of filieres the long-term IT strategy including Data, Cloud and AI stakes
• Be a communication vector of this strategy to the business and locally to GIT and make sure alignment between projects and target plan

Supplementary InformationGuarantee a high-quality production service and a proactive follow-up of incidents and remediation actions

• Ensure best practices for production follow-up, monitoring and tracking are respected as well as a very proactive follow-up of incidents (applicative or infrastructure) and related action plans
• Ensure an accurate, exhaustive and transparent reporting to CMI and local managements
• Manage proactively technical debt by launching remediation or improvement actions in agreement with the business
• Ensure a very proactive management of obsolescence and vulnerabilities on the scope of applications covered locally in sync with the head office

Be a trusted partner for the business

• Be identified by the business as a key partner on business initiatives and IT advisory and strategy
• Ensure all projects / activities / tasks under IT responsibility are executed within IOS / CMI quality and reporting standards
• Provide transparency on project / production statuses to business partners and warn on any potential milestone postponement / budget overshoot risks and propose mitigation solutions
• Manage globally the local budget of CMI and allocate the appropriate execution capacity to reach GMD and CMI objectives
• Set up a local governance with the business to provide local and global updates and health statuses on project / production / … subjects in mirror to the monthly Domain Committee meetings organized at the Head Office

Position locationGeographical areaAmerica, CanadaCityMONTREALCandidate criteriaMinimal education levelBachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalentLevel of minimal experience11 years and moreExperience

• 10 – 15 years of relevant experience
• Proven successful experience in a former Capital Market IT environment as a manager of large teams
• Proven successful experience in a former Capital Market IT environment as a manager of large teams
• Ability to take efficient decisions / Result-oriented mindset
• Knowledge of Capital Market activities (namely e-trading, pricing, booking)

Required skills

• Leadership
• Verbal and written communication skills in English and French required (You will need to service Anglophone clients and work with Anglophone colleagues)

Expected salary

Location

Montreal, QC

Job date

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:40:38 GMT

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