Title:  ScotiaMcLeod Investment Associate

Requisition ID: 248931

ScotiaMcLeod, a cornerstone of Scotia Wealth Management®, is a full-service wealth management firm with a proud history dating back to 1921. Known for service excellence, trusted advice, and a collaborative culture, we’re committed to helping clients grow and protect their wealth by understanding their complete financial picture—life, family, business, and future. 

Our signature Enriched Thinking® approach brings together investment, wealth planning, and advisory specialists to deliver truly personalized solutions. You’ll be supported by an innovative, team-based environment that values integrity, client focus, and continuous growth.

At ScotiaMcLeod, you’re not just building a career—you’re joining a firm where ideas spark, collaboration thrives, and you’re empowered to reach your full potential while making a real impact in your clients' lives.

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of ScotiaMcLeod in Canada ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

•  Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge

•  Generate sales or revenue by Identifying new business opportunities to gather additional assets and/or increase revenue, having targeted revenue levels for a segment of the book, utilizing an in-depth knowledge of products and services to identify new opportunities within the existing client base, ensuring the suitability of client recommendations, and that they are in line with the clients’ financial goals, objectives and risk levels, maintaining a good understanding of client profiles and that the Advisor’s investment strategy being used to implement client objectives, managing the execution of transactions on behalf of the Advisor, and ensuring non-solicited trades meet the client risk tolerance

•  Ensure a high level of client service by preparing, analyzing, and presenting reports and recommendations to clients, developing financial plans, independently or with the Advisor, working with the Advisor to develop and distribute client communication and marketing pieces, providing recommendations to Advisor for improvement of team business processes, and working closely with Team of Experts.

•  Coordinate and execute business development by assisting Advisor in development, preparation and presentation of annual business plan. managing marketing programs, including development, approvals and implementation, prospecting and follow up on leads, and developing content and maintaining Advisor website

•  Contribute to the effective functioning of the branch team by acting as a leader to other assistants on the team and within the branch by providing direction and coaching, regularly reviewing practices to ensure administrative processes are streamlined and administrative tasks being completed and logged for tracking purposes, building effective working relationships across the team and with various business line and corporate function contacts, maintaining a high level of customer service, facilitating a culture of open and honest communication, actively participating and contributing to touch bases and team meetings, encouraging the generation of new ideas and approaches, actively sharing knowledge and experience to enhance the development of all team members, and developing and executing a meaningful employee development plan.

•  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 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

•  Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES

We would like to work with you if you have:

• 5 years of Industry Experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills
• All applicable education, examination, and training requirements for licensing and confirmed registration as an Investment Representative with the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO)
• Understanding of industry and firm compliance regulations

Work Environment

• The Investment Associate acts independently on areas which may have primary responsibility such as a segment of the book or has a target revenue to generate
• The Investment Associate would review or escalate to an Advisor any issues with the client that would put the firm or the Advisor at risk.
• High level of authority to initiate, implement and suggest investment strategies
• Work independently with clients

Working Conditions

• Seminars and client/prospective events are often held in the evening which may require a longer than usual working day.
•  La succursale est un environnement au rythme rapide, souvent très stressant et aux demandes souvent contradictoires.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

• At ScotiaMcLeod we help employees build their futures – where they can be themselves and win together. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion and a performance-oriented culture that includes coaching, learning, and development – there are endless possibilities. At ScotiaMcLeod– you can make an impact. You help make the future of our 25 million customers happen. You can find your future here.

• The opportunity to join a forward-thinking organization where you are surrounded by a collaborative team of innovative thinkers. 

• An organization committed to making a difference in our communities– for you and our clients.

• An inclusive working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity and celebrates success
• Learning and Development – free access to Scotia Academy to upskill and develop your skills

« In addition to French, the successful candidate must also have sufficient knowledge of English, as the work involves interacting and collaborating regularly with groups and individuals based in Toronto, as well as constantly interacting with other people, including clients, who speak English, locally and elsewhere.”

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Location(s):  Canada : Quebec : Montreal 

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.