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Overview
Contributes to the overall success of the COO team in the United States ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are following governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.
Manage the non-trading / sales elements for the Regional and Global Equities (Global - Cash, Electronic Execution, Convertible Bonds and US Derivatives) and US and LatAm Research including overseeing enhancements to existing technology platforms, implementation of new technology, developing business specific financial statements / MIS, creating an enhanced funding model and supervising operational improvement / process change and efficiency initiatives.
What You'll Do
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Strategy
- Driving the annual strategy planning process. Partner with desk heads and business support partners to drive desk-level plans ultimately presented to US Board and form the basis of the financial planning process. Ensure regional plans operate within Global GBM strategy
- Translating high-level strategies into tangible deliverables. Lead execution including, but not limited to, New Initiatives Approvals, infrastructure development, project funding, and stakeholder management
- Actively identifying and designing strategic initiatives based on business and market knowledge, presenting business cases to multiple stakeholders to gain support
- Business Management
- Independently prioritizing and driving cross-functional initiatives, leading virtual teams to define and achieve common goals
- Championing a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge
- Owning and executing the Business Continuity and Return-to-Work Plans for US GCM businesses
- Coordinating and ensuring completion of ad-hoc requests from internal and external stakeholders
- Creating and understanding meaningful, robust business commentary for various recurring Management and Executive Committees, Board meetings, and regulatory forums
- Regulatory and Controls
- Strengthening and developing the control environment by promoting an understanding and adherence to the existing governance framework and policies, procedures, and regulations
- Actively promoting a consistent and unified governance framework for US activities, driving consistency across businesses
- Understanding how the Bank’s risk appetite and culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and business decisions
- Overseeing responses to various regulatory requests, ensuring clarity and accuracy of responses
- Actively creating efficiencies in the way controls are applied while still operating under a strong control’s framework
- Business Head Support
- Acting as the right-hand person to the Heads of the US GCM businesses; often acting as delegate in key forums and decisions
- Developing deep relationships with desk heads to understand strategic priorities, support business activity, and drive performance
- Acting as ‘ear to the street’, informing business heads of key themes and emerging risks
- People
- Actively driving Culture within US GCM and the broader organization
- Coordinating action plans resulting from Scotia Pulse outcomes
- Facilitating and streamlining hiring and onboarding processes
- Championing a high-performance environment and implementing a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates the team by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vision/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team
- Financials
- Supporting the annual planning process, including interlock with Head Office
- Driving Management Information and commentary enhancements; ensure information is accurate, robust, and meaningful
- Understanding drivers of business performance, identify and track variances to Plan. Partner with Finance to develop driver-based forecasting methodologies
- Reviewing business expenses and allocation methodologies; drive cost management initiatives as required
- Under how the Bank's risk apetite and risk culture shuld 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
What You'll Bring
- Knowledge of GCM businesses (required)
- A strong work ethic
- A demonstrated ability to independently run major programs using influence to drive virtual teams
- A strong culture, risk, and controls mindset
- The ability to be highly proactive and lead with a collaborative approach
- Strong communication skills; ability to distil key themes from large amounts of information
- The ability to prioritize amongst many competing deliverables at any given time
- An aptitude and interest in developing deep relationships with stakeholders across groups
- Strong MS Office skills - PowerPoint, Excel, Word (preferred)
Interested?
At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.
What's in it for you?
Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.
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