Senior Manager, Global Common Investment Platform

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Global Common Investment Platform (CIP) transformation and roadmap. You will define the target operating model, coordinate cross-functional initiatives, and ensure platform alignment across regions, with clear governance and risk management.

This role drives sequencing, governance, and visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes, ensuring capabilities meet business objectives and integrate with research, portfolio management, risk, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Technology, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in investment management including exposure to investment systems.
• Strong understanding of the investment lifecycle across front, middle, and back-office functions.
• Experience supporting platform, operating model, or transformation initiatives across business, technology, and operations teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Strong judgment in balancing business priorities, platform consistency, scalability, and trade-offs.
• Ability to influence and align stakeholders in support of platform decisions and outcomes.
• Experience with investment systems (e.g., Charles River, Bloomberg, etc).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to manage ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Drive the definition and ongoing refinement of the CIP target operating model.
• Translate business priorities into a clear platform roadmap and coordinated set of initiatives.
• Lead prioritization and sequencing of initiatives to maintain platform consistency and scalability
• Provide structured oversight and governance of cross-functional platform decisions.
• Ensure alignment of workflows, data, and controls to avoid fragmentation or duplication.
• Oversee CIP initiatives supporting global regions to ensure platform alignment.
• Coordinate delivery with business, technology, and vendors to maintain sequencing and alignment.
• Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs across concurrent initiatives.
• Strengthen governance over how platform changes are defined, prioritized, and introduced.
• Provide clear visibility into roadmap progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Ensure delivered capabilities are fit for purpose, aligned to business workflows, and support intended business objectives.

Skills

Investment lifecycle

Platform governance

Stakeholder leadership

Transformation initiatives

Ambiguity management

Influence stakeholders

Investment systems know-how

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Technology, or a related discipline

Job description

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Title: Senior Manager, Global Common Investment Platform

Requisition ID: 267060

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

Purpose:

The Senior Manager, Global Common Investment Platform plays a key role in driving the ongoing transformation and evolution of the Common Investment Platform (CIP) as a core investment capability within Scotia Global Asset Management (SGAM).

The role provides leadership to define, govern, and coordinate the implementation of the CIP target operating model and platform roadmap. This includes ensuring that platform capabilities, workflows, and data support consistent, efficient, and scalable investment decision-making across research, portfolio management, risk, performance, and reporting.

As CIP continues to scale globally across functions and regions, this role ensures the platform evolves in a coordinated, consistent, and controlled manner bringing discipline to how decisions are made, how work is sequenced, and how outcomes are delivered.

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

• Drive the definition and ongoing refinement of the CIP target operating model.
• Translate business priorities into a clear platform roadmap and coordinated set of initiatives.
• Lead prioritization and sequencing of initiatives to maintain platform consistency and scalability
• Provide structured oversight and governance of cross-functional platform decisions.
• Ensure alignment of workflows, data, and controls to avoid fragmentation or duplication.
• Oversee CIP initiatives supporting global regions to ensure platform alignment.
• Coordinate delivery with business, technology, and vendors to maintain sequencing and alignment.
• Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs across concurrent initiatives.
• Strengthen governance over how platform changes are defined, prioritized, and introduced.
• Provide clear visibility into roadmap progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Ensure delivered capabilities are fit for purpose, aligned to business workflows, and support intended business objectives.

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

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Technology, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in investment management including exposure to investment systems.
• Strong understanding of the investment lifecycle across front, middle, and back-office functions.
• Experience supporting platform, operating model, or transformation initiatives across business, technology, and operations teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Strong judgment in balancing business priorities, platform consistency, scalability, and trade-offs.
• Ability to influence and align stakeholders in support of platform decisions and outcomes.
• Experience with investment systems (e.g., Charles River, Bloomberg, etc).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to manage ambiguity.

Interested?

At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That is why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

What's in it for you?

Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work - and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.

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. 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.