Senior Financial Innovation Manager - 986 FR

Application Deadline: 12:00 PM ET on August 4, 2026

Join the EDC Team!

At EDC, we help Canadian businesses succeed abroad. We provide them with the financial tools and expertise they need to explore new markets and mitigate risks, all with one goal in mind: building a better Canada and world through trade.

Position: Senior Financial Innovation Manager

• Employment Type: Permanent Appointment

Compensation Details

• Financial Product Innovation 19: Annual salaries typically range from $112,006 to $149,341, plus performance-based compensation, depending on qualifications and experience.

Work Location

• Export Development Canada operates in a hybrid work environment, with a current requirement of two days in the office per week, which will increase to three days per week starting September 2026 (subject to change).
• The selected candidate can work from EDC's headquarters in Ottawa or from the Community Hub in Toronto, Mississauga, Montreal, Brossard, Laval, Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, or Vancouver.
• Relocation assistance is offered to eligible candidates.

*Internal candidates, please consult the Service Now page titled "Internal Moves - What You Need to Know."

About EDC

At Export Development Canada (EDC), we help Canadian businesses succeed abroad. As a financial institution, EDC offers innovative financial solutions and expert advice to help businesses explore new markets, mitigate risks, and grow.

Why Join EDC?

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: EDC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, good work-life balance, and the opportunity to contribute to building a better Canada and world through trade.
• Work-Life Balance: EDC offers a competitive compensation and work-life balance package, including various hybrid work options, three to four weeks of vacation, a shutdown period, shortened summer Fridays, and meeting-free Fridays.
• Professional Development: Take advantage of our continuous learning opportunities, including training programs, workshops, and language training.
• Inclusive Culture: Join a diverse and inclusive workplace that strives for employment equity and values the diversity of ideas, strengths, and backgrounds to foster success.
• Wellness Programs: We offer wellness initiatives, mental health support, and fitness programs to ensure your well-being and happiness.
• Community Investment: Participate in volunteer activities and give back through a range of social responsibility programs.
• Team Overview:

The Financial Product Innovation (FPI) Team focuses on holistic product management, aligned with EDC's business strategy and strategic evolutions; on driving innovation to ensure EDC offers added-value products for clients, partners, and the organization; on promoting the product function and customer-centric design principles; and on providing strategic product orientation.

To offer relevant solutions that have a tangible impact on Canada's international trade, the FPI Product Portfolio Management function ensures the strategic management of all EDC's financial products and includes three (3) key services: Product Strategy Support, Product Development, and Product Lifecycle Management. These services require a balanced blend of strategic thinking, a holistic view, an understanding of customer needs, and interfunctional collaboration.

The Senior Financial Innovation Manager supports the FPI mandate by leading complex initiatives related to product strategy, product development, and their lifecycle through the rigorous application of product management best practices and a deep understanding of market, client, and partner needs. This person possesses strong expertise in financial products, product design, risk considerations, and product management, and acts as a trusted partner by integrating information, trade-offs, and recommendations necessary for strategic decision-making.

What You Will Do

• Product Lifecycle Management
• Design and/or implement systems using internal and external data to track, analyze, and evaluate product performance, efficiency, relevance, and strategic alignment with the business strategy.
• Lead in-depth and structured product reviews by establishing links between product performance, customer and user needs, market trends, competitive context, risks, and opportunities to formulate concrete recommendations.
• Determine and evaluate options for product improvement, repositioning, consolidation, transition, or withdrawal, by conducting a clear analysis of benefits, risks, impacts, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Product Strategy Support
• Lead product innovation discovery and idea activities, including idea collection, aggregation, prioritization, hypothesis development, market intelligence, and customer, partner, and market needs validation.
• Define, with business teams, the product vision, strategic orientation, and product roadmap considerations, while ensuring alignment with EDC's priorities, product strategy, and portfolio strategy.
• Develop prospective analyses, options, recommendations, and decision support materials to support priority establishment, investment choices, and strategic product and initiative orientation.
• Communicate market trends, strategic insights, and product adoption signals to guide roadmap priorities and foster a common understanding of product strategy impacts.
• Product Development
• Lead collaboration with subject matter experts and interfunctional partners to gather requirements, define product parameters, design considerations, and implementation modalities, including operational readiness and scalability requirements.
• Design and implement new or enhanced financial products by evaluating customer needs, user experience (UX), pricing, risk profile, financial impacts, operational integration, and readiness requirements.
• Coordinate and track pilot projects, launch preparation, and market launch activities, including objectives, activities, success metrics, dependencies, and adoption considerations.
• Manage design processes and ensure appropriate consideration of approvals, risk assessments, and applicable governance requirements for products.
• Risk, Governance, and Decision Support
• Integrate EDC's risk management frameworks, policies, guidelines, and governance expectations into product design, development, tracking, and lifecycle decisions.
• Determine and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints, ensuring appropriate escalation, mitigation strategies, and recovery plans when they may impact deliverables or decisions.
• Ensure governance of product-focused tools, frameworks, methodologies, and artifacts in accordance with organizational standards, while maintaining their quality, consistency, traceability, and defensibility for audit purposes.
• Support business units in managing product gaps, escalations, and decision-making materials by providing an objective perspective based on market, customer, product, and risk considerations.