Title:  Manager, Technology Finance Operations & Control

Requisition ID: 234385

Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.

Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.

 

Purpose

Supports the Technology Finance Operations & Control function for the International Banking Technology & Transformation (IBTT) team across the International Banking footprint developing, implementing, and monitoring budgets to ensure financial targets are met.

Accountabilities

• Budget Management: Overseeing IBTT’s IT budget (OPEX & TSA), including forecasting, tracking expenditures, and ensuring cost-effective use of resources, this includes but is not limited to:
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Developing, implementing, and monitoring budgets to ensure financial targets are met.
• Financial Reporting: Ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, including monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
• Cost Management: Identifying cost-saving opportunities and implementing measures to control expenses
• Financial Analysis: Proficiency in analyzing financial data to support decision-making.
• Investment Analysis: Evaluating investment opportunities (i.e. Business Cases) and making recommendations to senior management.
• Accounting Knowledge: Strong understanding of accounting principles and practices.
• Performance Reporting: Creating and delivering regular reports on IT Budgets performance and key metrics to senior management. This includes identifying areas for improvement and making data-driven recommendations.
• Executive Reporting: Creating reports that have a clear purpose, provide accuracy and precision, are concise, and include both positive and negative findings with relevant insights.
• Leadership: Leads and drives a client focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge. 
• Compliance and Governance: Ensuring that all activities comply with relevant laws, regulations, and bank’s policies. This includes but is not limited to:
• Policy Adherence: Enforce IT policies and procedures.
• Audit and Review: Support bank’s audits and reviews to ensure compliance with internal and external standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Finding continuous improvement opportunities to streamline and automate key control points in critical processes.
• Client-Centric: Delivers a differentiated experience that creates value for our clients. Provides value to clients by developing innovative solutions and concrete business plans. This includes but is not limited to:
• Team Management: Lead and mentor a team of IT professionals.
• Change Management: Drive change initiatives to improve IT processes and systems.
• Innovation: Foster a culture of innovation within the IT department.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Creates an environment in which their team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s
• Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk. 
• Builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team.

Reporting Relationships 

• Primary Manager: Sr Manager, Technology Finance Operations & Control International Banking Technology & Transformation
• Direct Reports:    NA
• Shared Reports:    NA
  
  
  Dimensions
  
  
• Supports International Banking’s footprint (Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Central America, Caribbean)
• Multiple conflicting priorities involving multiple stakeholders across different countries
• Simultaneous reporting needs including both scheduled and on demand.
• Works with high level of autonomy and is a key referent for the International Banking Leadership concerning IBTT’s financial health 

Education / Experience / Other Information 

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Business, Finance, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
• Min (3) years / Five (5) + years of experience in the field of strategic financial planning and reporting.
• Solid understanding of IT Financial Management standards
• Proven quantitative/financial analytical skills and business acumen.
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills – oral and written, including the ability to articulate findings/analysis and present ideas in a clear and concise manner. 
• Experience in producing and delivering Executive Level Reporting
• Strong understanding of the Bank’s Risk Culture and Risk Appetite
• Excellent project management, organizational and time management skills with proven ability to effectively manage multiple priorities.
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Advanced Excel (must have) and PowerBI, power query (nice to have) skills including but not limited to Pivot Tables, Data Analytics, Importing
• Data, Manipulating Data, Data Modeling, Table Relationships and Data Visualization
• Experience using FP&A Tools (e.g. Anaplan, TM1, Essbase, Apptio, etc.) (nive to have) 
• Financial institution experience is an asset
• Bilingual English/Spanish is a strong asset

Location(s):  Colombia : Bogota : Bogota

ScotiaTech is a business unit within ScotiaGBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The ScotiaTech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.

At ScotiaTech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at ScotiaTech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.