InvestorLine Trade and Risk Analyst

Application Deadline:

09/28/2026 Address:
VIRTUAL59 - REMOTE/TELETRAVAIL - ON - BMO Job Family Group:

Customer Shared Services
Provides specialized multi-asset trade management, margin analysis, and operational risk oversight for BMO InvestorLine. Acts as first line of defense for complex trading activity by reviewing, approving, modifying, restricting, or escalating securities transactions that may expose clients or the Bank to financial, credit, market, regulatory, or reputational risk. Applies advanced knowledge of capital markets, securities regulations, margin requirements, options strategies, corporate actions, and trading systems to assess complex situations in real time under market deadlines. Contributes to business results by identifying emerging risks, recommending and implementing control enhancements, supporting strategic initiatives, and providing subject matter expertise across multiple business units.

The role operates across high-volume and high-value trading activities where decisions may directly affect client financial outcomes, the Bank’s credit and operational exposure, market and settlement risk, regulatory compliance, and the effectiveness of the first-line control environment. Errors or delayed intervention may result in client loss, unsecured or concentrated exposure, failed or incorrect transactions, regulatory or audit findings, operational losses, and reputational impact.
Key Accountabilities

- Reviews and evaluates complex equity, option, mutual fund, GIC, fixed income, and foreign exchange orders to determine whether they should be released, modified, restricted, rejected, or escalated.

- Acts as a gatekeeper and first line of defense for the business by balancing client service objectives with operational, financial, regulatory, market, and reputational risk exposure.

- Assesses liquidity, trading volume, volatility, concentration, and price sensitivity on large or unusual orders to determine impacts on clients, market pricing, and business exposure.

- Performs complex, time-sensitive margin and buying power calculations across multi-leg option strategies, concentrated positions, and leveraged accounts, and determines account eligibility and required action.

- Identifies excessive leverage, margin deficiencies, under-equity conditions, and deteriorating account conditions; recommends or applies restrictions to mitigate potential loss.

- Contacts clients regarding margin calls, cash debits, credit sellouts, loan conditions, FX risk, and account restrictions, and explains complex calculations and regulatory rules in clear terms.

- Manages option lifecycle risk, including exercise and assignment notification, expiry report review, and timely closing of in-the-money positions accounts cannot support.

- Researches and controls corporate action risk, including reverse splits and reorganizations.

- Monitors and resolves order rejects, trade breaks, and unfilled or incorrectly booked transactions, and coordinates corrections with clients and partner teams.

- Monitors accounts for fraud, wash trading, unauthorized trading, market manipulation indicators, and unacceptable trading behaviour, and takes action to reduce client and business losses.

- Applies CIRO requirements, internal policies, AML, privacy, and consumer protection obligations in day-to-day decision making.

- Identifies control gaps, system Edit deficiencies, and process weaknesses; recommends and supports implementation of preventive and detective control enhancements.

- Conducts root cause analysis on recurring exceptions, client-impacting incidents, and control failures, and recommends sustainable corrective action.

- Acts as a TMD subject matter expert on strategic initiatives involving platforms, margin functionality, order management systems, and risk controls; defines requirements, evaluates solutions, and completes user acceptance testing.

- Reviews and recommends updates to procedures, job aids, and control docume