Banking Manager, Personal Debt Solutions

Putting people first, every day

BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a people-first culture with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.

Your Opportunity

Our offices are looking for a Banking Manager, Personal Debt Solutions to support our Center of Excellence. The successful candidate would support the Senior Manager of Banking in day to day operations for the COE. The roles and responsibilities would be as listed below:

Responsibilities - Banking COE Manager

• Lead and manage the national Banking Centre of Excellence (COE), overseeing daily banking operations across multiple offices to ensure accuracy, compliance, and service excellence.
• Provide subject-matter expertise on insolvency banking processes, trust accounting requirements, and OSB compliance standards, ensuring adherence to statutory requirements.
• Oversee high-volume transactional workflows, including bank reconciliations, PAD agreements, dividend distributions, interim payments, final disbursements, and fee cheques.
• Supervise, coach, and develop a geographically distributed team; delegate tasks, manage workloads, monitor performance metrics, and support continuous skill development.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex banking issues, exceptions, and client inquiries, ensuring timely resolution and strong client experience outcomes.
• Partner with Licensed Insolvency Trustees, COE teams, IT, Compliance, and Finance to align banking operations with firm-wide priorities and regulatory obligations.
• Drive process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, reduce risk, improve turnaround times, and support scalability of national banking operations.
• Oversee quality control, audit readiness, and internal controls for trust accounting and banking functions.
• Support system and process changes (e.g., Ascend, Promeric, banking platforms).

How do we define success for your role?

• You demonstrate BDO's core values through all aspects of your work: Integrity, Respect and Collaboration.
• You understand your client’s industry, challenges, and opportunities; clients describe you as positive, professional, and delivering high-quality work.
• You identify, recommend, and are focused on effective service delivery to your clients.
• You share in an inclusive and engaging work environment that develops, retains & attracts talent.
• You actively participate in the adoption of digital tools and strategies to drive an innovative workplace.
• You grow your expertise through learning and professional development.

Your experience and education

• 5 or more years of related experience within the Insolvency field; while corporate insolvency experience is an asset, the primary focus will be on consumer work
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of insolvency rules, laws, and procedures
• Professional Designation would be considered an asset
• 1-2 years experience of people management, coaching
• Able to prioritize with the flexibility to manage workload demands and multiple tasks as required
• Flexibility on working hours as some evening work will be required
• You value teamwork, client service, and quality in your work.

Why BDO?

Our people-first approach to talent has earned us a spot among Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2026. This recognition is a milestone we’re thrilled to add to our collection of awards for both experienced and student talent experiences.

Our firm is committed to providing an environment where you can be successful in the following ways:

• We enable you to engage with how we change and evolve, being a key contributor to the success and growth of BDO in Canada.

• We help you become a better professional within our services, industries, and markets with extensive opportunities for learning and development.

• We support your achievement of personal goals outside of the office and making an impact on your community.

Giving back adds up: Where company meets community. BDO is actively involved in our communities by supporting local charity initiatives. We support staff with local and national events where you will be given the opportunity to contribute to your community.

Total rewards that matter: We pay for performance with competitive total cash compensation that recognizes and rewards your contribution. We provide flexible benefits from day one, and a market leading personal time off policy. We are committed to supporting your overall wellness beyond working hours and provide reimbursement for wellness initiatives that fit your lifestyle.

Everyone counts: We believe every employee should have the opportunity to participate and succeed. Through leadership by our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leader, we are committed to a workplace culture of respect, inclusion, and diversity. We recognize and celebrate the valuable differences among each of us, including race, religious beliefs, physical or mental disabilities, age, place of origin, marital status, family status, gender or gender identity and sexual orientation. If you require accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.

Flexibility: All BDO personnel are expected to spend some of their time working in the office, at the client site, and virtually unless accommodations or alternative work arrangements are in place.

Our model is a blended approach designed to support the flexible needs of our people, the firm and our clients. It’s about creating work experiences that meet everyone’s needs and providing flexibility to adjust when, where and how we work to meet the expectations of our role.

Code of Conduct: Our Code of Conduct sets clear standards for how we conduct business. It reflects our shared values and commitments and includes guiding principles to help us make ethical decisions and maintain trust with each other, our clients, and the public.

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