City : Toronto, ON, CA, M5H1A1

Category : Business and Financial Operations

Industry : Finance

Employer : Scotiabank

Requisition ID: 145759

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

Purpose

Senior Manager, Testing Centre of Excellence supports the Director, Global Testing Centre of Excellence in overseeing Global Compliance Testing (the “Testing”) program and its alignment with Global Compliance Risk Management framework. The role contributes to the overall success of the Enterprise Compliance in Global Compliance, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed and delivered in support of the business strategies and objectives.

Accountabilities

• Prepares requirements and agenda for the Global Compliance Testing Council with Testing Heads, IT and other control functions share and discuss testing results.

• Perform a challenge role on Compliance Test multi-year Plans globally proposed by each Business Line, ensuring there is adequate compliance risk coverage, sufficient resources to provide assurance on Compliance testing obligations.
• Perform challenge on the day-to-day operations of Compliance plans, ensuring that there is sufficient escalation and remediating plans for deferred and cancelled engagements.
• Provide an ongoing advice, guidance, to Busies Lines compliance teams on the comprehensiveness of the Business Line/Corporate Functions Compliance test plan.
• Work proactively with the Compliance Remediation and Optimization Program team to ensure successful delivery of oversight related projects, including APM and Board Commitments.
• Display strong understanding of Compliance Testing program and alignment to the Compliance Risk Management framework
• Analyzes testing patterns, themes, systemic findings and/or trending issues at the global and Business Line level and ensures there are tagged for discussion at the Testing Council, and for CCO and respective senior committees. Ensure there is traction  
• Prepare reporting to support the development and oversight of Testing KRI and KPI metrics for CCO’s opinion
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to build partnerships and create a shared vision of excellence. Play a leadership role and effectively communicate deliverables to stakeholders; ensure deliverables are on-time and of high quality.

• 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, 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.
• Champions a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment, communicating vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.
• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Law, or relevant Social Science
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant compliance or risk management experience in a large, international bank and/or an established securities regulatory agency. Preferably in Testing / Audit / Risk management
• International business mindset
• Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Team player and ability to work in a complex global matrix organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a proven ability to develop and implement solutions to complex issues.
• Strong time and project management, research, and analytical skillsets.
• Ability to learn and adapt to rapidly changing regulator
• Spanish is 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.  

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.