Scotiabank

Senior Manager Business Analysis Group Treasury

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

POSITION SUMMARY:

The incumbent must be a creative, self starting, results-oriented, and highly motivated individual with good analytical skills in order to apply this knowledge to provide resolution to complex business problems for Scotia Capital and Technolology Application Group.

The incumbent must possess a solid understanding of systems development techniques, including requirements specification and testing methodologies, real-time analytical and formal modelling tools, and keep current with rapidly changing technology.Further, the incumbent must possess good interpersonal and communication skills, and exercise diplomacy and judgement, to effectively work with end users from the Front, Middle and Back Offices, and members of the project team.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Independently resolve complex, multi-faceted problems to meet the business needs of Scotia Capital, and the Technology Application Group, by applying their financial and technological knowledge to the design of methodologies, models, and/or systems solutions. This may involve rapid prototyping, with requirements and solutions developed on an iterative basis, that provides interim deliverables until a final production solution is created. This includes conducting research and analysis, accurately and clearly defining user requirements and processes, and liaising with the users.
• Manage multiple medium and large sized projects and/or manage specific sections of large projects to implement solutions to business problems. This involves planning and scheduling resources, developing detailed project plans, monitoring progress against planned objectives, financial review, and securing consensus and co-operation from users and senior management.
• Participate in the systems implementation process by defining business requirements and processes, preparing business cases, developing test strategies and test cases, performing testing, defining user procedures and workflows, developing conversion and implementation strategies, verifying conversion, providing user documentation, providing user training, and providing post-implementation support.
• Provide business support to all global trading units across Canada, New York, London, Dublin, Singapore, Hong Kong and Mexico. This includes new and existing products, deal structuring, ad hoc queries, user training, and assisting with the design and implementation of systems enhancements. This is made more challenging due to differences in time zones and the variation in the business lines, which may require additional time to service the business needs beyond regular business hours.
• The incumbent must be capable of and comfortable in dealing with the demand needs of Front, Middle and Back Office users. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that management is kept informed and that problems and issues are escalated appropriately. Supervise business analysts, technical staff, and users on an individual project basis as well as administratively supervise 3-5 business analysts.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• The incumbent must have excellent knowledge of financial instruments, including market conventions, valuation methods, risk management methodologies and models including best practices. The incumbent should have a thorough understanding of current and anticipated regulatory requirements, and the end-to-end workflows among the Front, Middle, and Back Offices, within at least one financial market area (e.g. Group Treasury, Fixed Income, Risk Management) and a good knowledge of at least one other financial market area.
• The incumbent must be a creative, self starting, results-oriented, and highly motivated individual with very good analytical skills in order to apply this knowledge to assist in the resolution of complex business problems.Further, the incumbent must possess very good interpersonal and communication skills in order to effectively work with end users and members of the project team.
• The incumbent is expected to use diplomacy, judgement, and persuasion to secure agreement and co-operation from departments involved in a project.The incumbent must also possess a good understanding of current EDP practices, systems development techniques, including requirements specification and testing methodologies, real-time analytical and formal modelling tools, and keep current with rapidly changing technology.
• A recognized under-graduate or graduate degree in business, econometrics, mathematics or a related discipline, along with 4-6 years of practical experience is required.

EDUCATION AND ACCREDITATIONS:

• A degree in a computer science, math or engineering related discipline is desirable.

The Technology Application Group (TAG) is a committed business partner to Scotia Capital, Integrated Support Services and Group Treasury, delivering technology services in three dimensions; business analysis, software development and production management. TAG's success is based on strong customer focus and a close relationship with each of its´ principle clients. TAG resources are knowledgeable in their fields of expertise and are viewed by the business lines as reliable advisors. The return on investment for TAG's clients is high quality service customized to their business objectives, delivered in a timely and cost effective manner.

The TAG department has a proven history of adopting best-of-breed technologies and implementing effective system solutions to meet critical business needs as well as developing a large percentage of its solutions in-house. What does this mean for you? You have the opportunity to partner with a business line and gain the in-depth knowledge you will need to successfully provide value added solutions.

The Scotiabank Group is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all interested parties. We thank you for your interest, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

No agencies please.