Manager, Compliance Risk & Control Assessments - Global Compliance

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank is seeking a Manager, Compliance Risk & Control Assessments to lead the global CRCA program. The role focuses on developing risk methodologies, overseeing assessment activities, and delivering data-driven insights to executive audiences for regulatory compliance.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years in a large financial institution, strong data analytics, and excellent stakeholder management. Location: Toronto, Canada; travel as required.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Business, Finance, Law or Economics and at least 3 years in a large financial institution or with regulators.
• Experience in risk management (compliance/operational) and ability to visualize data for Exec audiences.
• Proficiency with data analytics/data mining and ability to handle large data sets.
• Strong stakeholder management and written/verbal communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to changing regulatory and business environments.

Responsibilities

• Champion a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage bank-wide capabilities.
• Support the Director and Senior Managers in developing risk assessment methodologies.
• Promote effective Risk Assessment execution by training and coordinating with stakeholders.
• Oversee activities to identify trends and remediations to mitigate compliance risk.
• Ensure alignment with Scotiabank's risk appetite, values and governance.

Skills

Risk management

Compliance risk

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Project management

MS Office/Excel

Education

Graduate degree in Business/Finance/Law or Economics

Tools

MS Office Suite

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Data mining tools

Job description

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Title: Manager, Compliance Risk & Control Assessments - Global Compliance

Requisition ID: 278182

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of the Compliance Risk & Control Assessments Program globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures. As Manager, you support the development, implementation and oversight of the Compliance Risk & Control Assessment (CRCA) activities. These activities are essential in evaluating the Regulatory Compliance risk profile of the Bank. All activities must be in alignment with the approved risk appetite, leveraging industry best practices and in compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements, all while enabling the Bank’s strategic priorities.

Accountabilities

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Provides support to the Director and Senior Managers in the development and enhancement of comprehensive risk assessment methodologies.
• Promotes the effective execution of Risk Assessment activities by developing training materials, fostering strong relationships with internal clients, and providing support to relevant stakeholders to preserve program efficacy.
• Performs oversight activities to enable the identification of trends, adherence to procedures, and early detection and remediation of risk exposure, to mitigate the risk of non-compliance.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Education/Experience

Graduate degree in a Business, Finance, Law or relevant Social Science (e.g. Economics). Minimum of 3 years of experience in a large financial institution or with financial regulators. In addition, the ideal candidate should have:

• Minimum 2 years of Risk management experience (Compliance risk, Operational risk or relevant fields)
• Sound understanding of the role of Compliance risk assessments in supporting the management of risk
• Experience developing and maintaining reports for Executive audiences, with the ability to visualize data
• Expertise in data analytics / data mining and ability to manipulate and make sense of very large data sets
• Proven experience working with multi-disciplinary project groups
• Strong stakeholder management and excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to learn and adapt to rapidly changing regulatory and business environments
• Proficiency with Web-based applications, and strong skills in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), particularly with respect to data analysis in Excel or more advanced data mining tools
• Strong time management, project management, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Fluency in Spanish (verbal and written) would be an asset.
• Communications experience would be an asset.

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

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