Senior Analyst, Expense Management

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in the Americas is seeking a Senior Analyst for Expense Management in Toronto. Responsibilities include preparing financial reports, budget management, and expense tracking to ensure compliance with regulations. The ideal candidate has 2-3 years of experience in accounting, strong analytical and organizational skills, and advanced proficiency in Excel and Power BI. The role offers a competitive rewards package and a commitment to an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Performance bonus

Employee Share Ownership Program

Pension Plan Matching

Health Benefits from day one

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of relevant experience in an accounting function.
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
• Good understanding of financial reporting principles.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly/quarterly reporting of Legal, Corporate Governance & Security expenses.
• Manage budgets including forecasting and reporting variances.
• Provide operational support for department contacts and onboarding.

Skills

Accounting principles

Financial reporting

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Education

Degree in Accounting or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Title: Senior Analyst, Expense Management

Requisition ID: 244580

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

Contributes to the overall success of Legal, Corporate Governance & Security 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.

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

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Prepare monthly/quarterly reporting Legal, Corporate Governance & Security expenses. Responsible for the accuracy of consolidating financial information for actual, plan and forecast.
• Responsible for:
  • Budget management to include forecasting and reporting of budget variances monthly, quarterly, and annually leveraging the Bank’s finance systems and tools.
  • Expense management to include organizing, preparing, processing and/or reconciling transactions, invoices, accounts and journal entries, leveraging the Bank’s payment systems and tools.
  • Reporting to include preparation and/or assistance with balancing, reconciling records, daily, weekly, monthly as appropriate.
  • Provides Complement Reporting update and submission on a monthly basis.
  • Monitoring schedules and meeting critical processing and reporting deadlines.
• Undertake special projects and respond to priority requests on a range of topics related to expense management, providing value-added views and recommendations.
• Provides operational support to the following:
  • Acts as a department contact for the Staff Commercial Card program, including provisioning and general support.
  • Acts as a department contact for the Business Continuity Planning (BCP), including communicating, testing and maintenance.
  • Providing onboarding/offboarding support.
• 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.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• Sound knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and procedures.
• A good understanding of financial and management reporting principles; ability to sustain a broad-based knowledge of the Bank’s and Legal & Corporate Affairs strategy, operations, and procedures.
• Ability to work independently, quickly, accurately and to multi-task to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• 2-3 years of relevant experience or a degree in accounting and experience in an accounting function.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, the full Microsoft Office suite, and Power BI, consistently leveraging these tools to drive data analysis, reporting, and business insights.
• Good communications skills both written and verbal.

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.

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. At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.