Business Reliability and IT Ops Manager

Business Reliability and IT Ops Manager Job Description Business Reliability and IT Ops Manager About Toyota Financial Services

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) provides retail, leasing and wholesale financial services to Toyota and Lexus dealerships and customers across Canada. TFS is a member of Toyota Financial Services Corporation (TFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan with the Canadian operation headquarters in Markham, Ontario.

At Toyota Financial Services (TFS), you will help create best in class customer experiences in an innovative, collaborative, and team focused environment. TFS is an important part of the Toyota family, an award-winning global company, recognized worldwide for our technological leadership and superior standards of quality, continuous improvement, and environmental responsibility.

TFS currently has an exciting full-time opportunity as a Manager, Business Reliability and IT Ops
, reporting to the National Manager, IT
. This role will reside in our Markham Head Office.

• Manage, lead, direct and provide oversight to the management of daily operational support activities performed by TCCI team members, partners and vendors, including on-prem and Cloud.
• Provide timely response to queries and act as the coordination and escalation point for all incidents and problems.
• Work with partners to improve the efficiency of provisioning and de-provisioning processes.
• Drive the adoption of automation and Dev Ops practices to improve operational efficiency, service reliability, deployment discipline, and production support processes.
• Adapt to a rapidly changing technology landscape by assessing and implementing continuous improvements while managing environments, capacity planning, and IT assets (software and hardware).

• Manage all third-party infrastructure and operational vendors, including IaaS/Cloud, Network, On-Prem, User Services, Deskside Support, and Telephony.
• Manage external vendors in adherence to established contracts and SLAs.
• Work with vendors to ensure appropriate contracts and pricing are in place, while managing the budgeting, forecasting, and operations of this area.
• Manage and contribute to the development of the annual information technology budget and business improvement budgets.

• Develop and implement uniform system administration practices and ensure the necessary security policies and procedures are in place to minimize risks.
• Define standard operating procedures, service levels, KPIs, and controls for all IT processes.
• Work closely with architecture and information security teams on project implementations while ensuring internal company policies, compliance requirements, and contractual commitments are maintained.

• Develop and maintain the technical roadmap, including a long-term technical plan that accounts for company growth and business needs.
• Lead the Disaster Recovery practice and support Business Continuity Plan initiatives.
• Develop, maintain, and regularly update business continuity, disaster recovery, and recovery playbooks for critical services and processes.
• Conduct business impact analyses and recovery requirement assessments to define critical dependencies, recovery priorities, and service restoration requirements, including RTOs and RPOs.
• Lead regular disaster recovery exercises, tabletop tests, and recovery simulations, and track remediation activities to strengthen organizational readiness.
• Coordinate cross-functional response and recovery efforts during major incidents and continuity events, including escalation, communication, and post-incident improvement actions.
• Assess operational resilience risks across infrastructure, applications, processes, and third-party services, and drive mitigation plans for identified gaps or single points of failure.

• Post Secondary degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field required.
• 7+ year’s leadership/management experience in an IT Operations or Infrastructure role.
• 10+…