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Title: Senior Manager, AML & Sanctions Systems - Trade & Securities Compliance - 15-Month Contract

Requisition ID: 235926

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

The Transaction Screening team is a risk management function responsible for the governance of sanctions screening solutions globally, enterprise wide. The team leads and oversees the Global Sanctions Program’s screening management functions, ensuring coverage assessments, tuning methodology, rules governance framework, and screening standards are developed, executed, and maintained in compliance with governing regulations, internal bank-wide policies, and procedures. The Business Solutions Expert provides subject matter expertise in securities screening and leads enterprise-wide coverage assessments across multiple screening pillars, including payments, trade finance, and securities.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed? We’d love to work with you if you have experience with:

• Support the sanctions screening solutions management function globally, enterprise-wide:
• Serve as the global subject matter expert (SME) for securities screening, with deep expertise in Bloomberg securities data, issuer hierarchies, and reference data files.
• Lead the securities screening workstream end-to-end, including methodology development, integration of new datasets, and ongoing validation of securities coverage.
• Support and co-lead coverage assessments across payments and trade finance screening, driving a consistent methodology across all pillars.
• Coverage Assessments and Governance
• Lead and coordinate global coverage assessments, ensuring completeness of sanctioned parties, issuers, and associated instruments across screening pillars.
• Develop and maintain governance standards, methodology, and risk tolerance frameworks for enterprise-wide transaction screening.
• Act as a primary point of contact for regulatory examinations and audits related to screening coverage, always ensuring audit readiness.

• Collaborate with data and analytics teams to validate Bloomberg and other vendor data feeds, ensuring robust governance, accuracy, and lineage.
• Liaise with IT and product owners to define business requirements, translating regulatory and compliance needs into system functionality.
• Oversee data extracts, system testing, tuning, and reporting to validate the efficacy and efficiency of screening solutions.

• Provide strategic insights, regular updates, and risk assessments to senior leadership on screening performance, coverage gaps, and emerging risks.
• Build strong relationships with Compliance, Operations, IT, and vendor partners, ensuring alignment across global initiatives.
• Promote a risk-based, data-driven approach to sanctions compliance across all transaction screening pillars.

• Lead and drive a customer-focused culture and deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Build a high-performance environment and implement a people strategy that will attract, retain, develop, and motivate their team and colleagues by fostering an inclusive work environment, communicating vision/values/business strategy, and managing succession and development planning for the team and colleagues.
• Create and foster an environment in which his/her team and colleagues pursue effective and efficient operations, 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.

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in compliance, governance, or business solutions roles within the financial services industry.
• Deep knowledge of sanctions regulatory requirements across multiple asset classes, with specific expertise in securities markets.
• Strong experience with Bloomberg securities data, reference data files, and data extract governance.
• Demonstrated expertise in leading coverage assessments, system integration, and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong analytical, communication, and project management skills.
• Knowledge of financial markets, products, operations, and screening systems.

• In-depth training to prepare you for the role, as well as ongoing coaching and feedback to help you succeed!
• You'll be part of a diverse, collaborative, innovative, and high-performing team
• We offer a competitive rewards package.
• You will relish work-life balance, team events, and opportunities to participate in the community.
• 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.