Senior Manager Portfolio Governance - Toronto, Canada - Scotiabank

Description

The Senior Manager - International Banking Strategy Execution plays a key role in supporting the identification and implementation of Strategic Priorities and other key transformational initiatives in the Bank. Their responsibilities include working to ensure effective execution of Scotiabank's strategic plans, ensuring alignment across teams and facilitating the achievement of key business goals. The scope of metrics under this role includes thorough analysis of business and market data and development and roll-out of work plans to improve and structurally transform Scotiabank's business performance across the Americas.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

Strategic Reviews

Identify opportunities for productivity initiatives, improvement of business performance and other organizational goals, such as organizational effectiveness, process improvements, rationalization, and digitization

Identify and implement improvements to financial performance metrics in the Bank, including Expense Management

Inform and support the development of long and short-term strategic initiatives to plan, inform and provide recommendations to optimize performance in terms of costs, revenue, quality, etc.

Design, and develop research and data analysis for International Banking initiatives to continuously identify opportunities and support in developing recommendations and solutions to drive efficiencies and optimize operations

Develop and apply analytical approaches to business opportunities, challenges, and recommendations (including benchmark analysis and comparison, data analysis, cost rationalization, etc.) to support expense management and strategic initiatives in International Banking

Support development, coordination and execution program and project management activities supporting strategic opportunities for International Banking, including productivity initiatives in IB

Market Insights

Monitor trends of competing banks, conduct review and analysis of market and financial reports and provide actionable insights regarding the banking industry that are relevant to International Banking

Identify best-practices, opportunities and provide recommendations to drive improvements to business metrics, based on market data and insights

Collaborate and provide recommendations and support the execution of the International Banking Strategy, supporting the translation of Scotiabank's strategic vision to actionable plans through data-driven insights and cross-functional collaboration, while ensuring alignment across stakeholders and adherence to the Bank's strategic goals

Conduct and support interactions with key stakeholders and prepare reports for Finance and Business Line leadership and other executives

Interact with local teams to streamline and execute effective reporting processes to ensure high-quality delivery of insights and timely reaction to market dynamics

Actively pursue and implement improvement and standardization of methodologies and practices to calculate market KPIs across the footprint

Manage information databases ensuring the completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of market insights reporting

Other Accountabilities

Develop activities with internal stakeholders in International Banking and other areas to drive and track progress of ongoing initiatives and proactively escalate any issues

Contribute to a high-performance environment and support the team in promoting engagement and fostering an inclusive work environment

Drive continuous improvement of project execution by proposing and implementing improvements to project analysis and management, leveraging new tools and technologies to facilitate processing and visualization of data, and perform necessary risk identification, escalation, and mitigation

Develop day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank's risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits. Communicate the Bank's risk culture and risk appetite statement throughout the team

Actively pursue effective and efficient planning and execution of daily activities, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? - We'd love to work with you if you have:

5+ years of experience in banking, financial services industry and/or management consulting

Strong business acumen and organizational skills

Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills

Strong knowledge in financial analysis, FP&A / corporate finance experience is an asset

Strong communication and presentation skills

Ability to build complex dynamic financial models

Proven experience in data management and visualization tools is preferred (VBA, SQL, PowerBI)

Proven experience managing resources

Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, challenging, and dynamic business environment

Project management experience

Ability to work in a flexible office environment

MBA and/or business/finance designation preferred

Spanish fluency is preferred

What's in it for you?

An inclusive & collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success

We offer a competitive rewards package: Performance bonus, Employee Share Ownership Program, and Pension Plan Matching, Health Benefits from day one

Your career matters You will have access to career development and progression opportunities.

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