IMMEDIATE INTERIM OPPORTUNITY Interim Chief Technology Officer Reports To: Chief Executive Officer Duration: 6-9 months Location: Toronto, ON Hybrid working Our client, a prestigious Canadian financial services organization, is looking for an experienced professional to help them elevate the sophistication and value of technology across the organization. This is an exciting engagement as you will play a key role in helping our client to reshape the team, its structure, and their technologies to improve both the staff and customer experience. This role combines a strategic advisory role with operational leadership as you will be responsible for helping to solidify the vision for the information technology function and aligning it with the corporate strategy. Core deliverables for the assignment include, recommending a new structure for the IT team, articulation of the multi-year IT roadmap and strategy, streamlining of redundancies across related functions, assessment and recommendations on key IT projects (including an ERP implementation) to ensure proper governance, resourcing and project management, and reporting to the executive team and Board on key IT matters Key Accountabilities As an objective strategic advisor assess the current IT organization providing insights and advice to the executive team and CEO on optimizing structure and IT operating model Coach, mentor, lead and inspire a diverse technology team through a period of transformation Conduct a needs assessment through collaboration with key stakeholders to understand the information technology needs of the organization to support the IT strategy Solidify and articulate the technology strategy for the organization, building a roadmap for modernization, presenting your recommendations to the executive team and the Board for approval Assess IT and related functions across the organization and create a strategy to integrate activities into a model that eliminates inefficiencies and redundancies. Complete objective needs analysis to ensure organization is optimizing technology resources enterprise-wide in highly efficient manner. Assess current technology operating environment, understand proposed future state, and identify flaws/gaps, providing solutions to remedy. Assess and make recommendations to the IT roadmap to guide system architecture, infrastructure, applications, security, system development and maintenance. Support a culture of accountability at every layer of the IT organization Support the design of technological systems and platforms to improve customer experience. Manage in-flight projects from system modernizations to an ERP upgrade, participating on project steering committees as necessary Assess and make recommendations for appropriate Governance, Risk, and Control practices for the IT function Update short-term IT strategies and roadmaps ensuring alignment with corporate strategic goals Improve operational efficiency, service delivery and information management across organization Manage relationships with external consultants and vendors, and serve as key point of contact related to transformational technology initiatives, providing key updates to the leadership team. Ensure a high degree of transparency and robust analysis on risk, compliance, performance, and delivery. Develop and manage technology data governance and cyber security policies and enforcement, achieving a high level of governance and security standar d. Competencies and Requirement University degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivale 20 years of experience leading IT in a complex, regulated environment Demonstrable experience in leading significant system modernization and organizational transformation project Experience building robust IT strategies and the operating models/team structures to support delivery Deep experience driving and managing change and overseeing transformational program Strong people leadership and business acumen, including excellent business relationship management skills Engaged, authentic and passionate about business. Motivated to make a difference by positively shaping lives Ability to focus and lead others towards value creation Demonstrated success at building teams and creating followership Excellent organizational and leadership skills Experience working with Boards and committees Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities PLEASE SEND YOUR CV (AS A WORD DOC) TO: Interim.ApplicationsLHHknightsbridge .com (Subject: Job Title)LHH Knightsbridge Interim Managem ent is a service to help our clients address a wide range of scenarios including leadership support due to sudden departures, driving key change initiatives or leading transformation projects. Our interim executives step in with minimal downtime to meet specific objectives and deliver results. All have held senior positions in the past and have now chosen to offer their unique depth and breadth of experience to organizations on a limited engagement basis. Follow the LHH Knightsbridge LinkedIn page and set up a job alert to learn about new Executive Interim opportunit ies. Lee Hecht Harrison Knightsbridge Corp. is committed to providing equitable treatment and accommodation to ensure a barrier-free recruitment process. In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and our AODA policy, a request for accommodation will be accepted as part of the hiring process. If you require accommodation to apply or if selected to participate in an assessment process, please provide your accommodation needs in advance to the Recruitment Lead for this opportunity. We thank all interested candidates in advance; however, only individuals selected for interviews will be conta c ted. March 2025