Senior Manager, Strategy Execution (Global Finance)

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Manager for International Banking Strategy Execution. This pivotal role involves conducting strategic analyses, identifying business opportunities, and enhancing operational performance across the Americas. You will collaborate with teams to drive productivity initiatives and ensure alignment with the bank's strategic vision. The ideal candidate will possess strong banking experience, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, along with proficiency in financial analysis and data visualization tools. Join a dynamic and inclusive environment that fosters creativity and offers career development opportunities.

Benefits

Performance bonus

Employee Share Ownership Program

Pension Plan Matching

Health Benefits from day one

Career development opportunities

Inclusive working environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years in banking or financial services required.
• Strong skills in financial analysis and data visualization preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct strategic analyses and identify business opportunities.
• Monitor market trends and provide actionable insights.
• Support execution of International Banking Strategy.

Skills

Banking experience

Financial services knowledge

Strategic thinking

Problem-solving skills

Financial analysis

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Data management

Visualization tools (VBA, SQL, PowerBI)

Spanish fluency

Tools

VBA

SQL

PowerBI

Job description

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

The Senior Manager - International Banking Strategy Execution plays a key role conducting strategic analyses, identifying and sizing business opportunities 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.
• 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 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).
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, challenging, and dynamic business environment.
• Ability to work in a flexible office environment.
• 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.

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. 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.