As Manager Financing Solutions Agro Industry, and in collaboration with your colleagues, you’ll play a key role in providing strategic support to agri-food businesses. Your varied and complex tasks will help you quickly become a trusted advisor for businesses that feed the world.

This position reports to the Associate Vice-President of the Agri-Food Group and is located in Brossard or depending on where the hired candidate resides.

Your role:

• Act as an expert advisor, leveraging your knowledge and extensive professional experience to provide clients with tailored advice.
• Help your clients achieve their business objectives by proposing financial strategies based on the best combination of specialized financing products.
• Support account managers when setting up new financing files and at all stages of file monitoring and renewal.
• Provide expertise in the areas of financing structure, financial analysis and all aspects of file assessment.
• Identify the Bank's financial risks in terms of financing and issue recommendations to mitigate or eliminate them.
• Act as a resource for credit questions within your team and assist the AVP, as needed, in developing team members' skills in this area.
• Help develop sector-specific financing strategies and guidelines to support the AVP.

Specifically, you will:

• Help prepare files, including analyzing and setting up business financing structures.
• In some cases, work with the account manager to help with preliminary meetings and the presentation of draft offers of financing to clients.
• Participate in negotiations with internal stakeholders (Operations, Credit, Syndication department, etc.) and external stakeholders (legal advisors, other financial institutions, clients, prospective clients, etc.).
• Actively participate in all stages of monitoring and renewing existing credit.
• Use credit risk and profitability assessment tools to ensure compliance with financing and risk management policies and standards.

Competencies required:

• A completed bachelor’s degree in a related field and 7 years of relevant experience OR a completed master's degree in a related field and 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience in complex commercial credit and knowledge of products and services for businesses
• Experience in analyzing developed financial models
• Knowledge of debt capital markets, an asset
• Knowledge of the agri-food ecosystem, an asset
• Experience in customer service, negotiating and business development
• Ability to manage priorities and timelines
• Interpersonal skills and a team player
• Excellent command of spoken and written English and French

Your benefits

Upon hiring, you will be eligible for a wide range of benefits. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer attractive benefits for you and your family:

• Health and wellness program, including many benefits
• Flexible group insurance
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Employee and family assistance program
• Preferred banking services
• Volunteer program
• Telemedicine
• Virtual sleep clinic

These are just a few of the many benefits we offer. We've rolled out a number of additional measures to ensure your health, safety and wellbeing during the pandemic.