Title:  Manager, U.S. Business Continuity Manager and Operational Resilience

Requisition ID: 212482

 Salary Range: 90,000.00 - 167,200.00 

Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

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

Global Banking and Markets 

Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank’s strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world. 

Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.  

Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries!  We work together to drive ambition for every future! 

Purpose

This role contributes to the overall success of the Office of the Chief Operating Officer in the United States and the U.S. Operations of the Bank of Nova Scotia.  Primarily supporting U.S. Business Continuity Management (BCM) and the U.S. Operational Resilience program as needed, this employee takes direction from the Senior Manager of Business Continuity Management and Operational Resilience to respond to our enterprise Business Continuity Management Unit (BCMU) requests/mandates. This role will work with Senior Management and Business Continuity Planners across all U.S. businesses/functions to ensure they are meeting established deadlines and are submitting required updates for BCM deliverables. This employee will collate BCM matters that pertain to the U.S. for consolidated oversight. 

What You’ll Do

Serves as a Relationship Manager to Business Continuity Plan Owners and Approvers:

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Ensure BC Plan Owners meet all annual deliverables (10+) and maintain the integrity of their BCPs
• Develop workarounds for critical processes, application and vendors across all U.S. BCPs

Facilitate Testing:

• Help coordinates the U.S. semi-annual bank-wide notification exercises 
• Help coordinates the annual testing of the alternate site (100+ seat subscribers)

Incident and Crisis Management:

• Supports our U.S. Crisis and Local Incident Management efforts by monitoring and tracking incidents and assessing business impact for escalation and remediation. 
• Collaborate with the U.S. and GBM stakeholders to manage the bank's response to incidents; proactively understand and drive an Operational Resilience lens within specific events

Produce Timely Reporting:

• Produces monthly U.S. Business Continuity KPI/ KRI metrics reporting for management oversight.
• Prepare decks for the quarterly meetings with all BC Plan Owners and Approvers and U.S. LIMT
• Document and Distribute minutes post meetings 

Adherence to Compliance Requirements:

• Ensure adherence to the U.S. Compliance Library and industry regulations 
• Keep Policies and Procedures up to date with evolving internal and external guidelines while addressing the unique resumption requirements for each local business unit.
• Help collate and prepare documents for submission to:
  • Regulatory bodies as required (e.g. multiple ROCA examinations)
  • Annual Audit of US BCM
  • Maintain Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) and support biennial review by second line.

What You’ll Bring 

• Knowledge of the Business Continuity Management function is required
• Strong communication and analytical skills (both written and verbal) 
• Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, or comparable
• 3-5 years of experience in a related risk/control function (ideally in Business Continuity Management but open to individuals who are quick learners and have a risk/control mindset).
• Ability to develop senior level presentations in PowerPoint and leverage MS Excel to perform data analytics and develop reports that will provide insights to senior leaders
• Experience in supporting a large, complex program, engaging with stakeholders across lines of defense and regions
• Ability to identify, articulate, and mitigate key risks within the program as well as the Operational Resilience framework more broadly
• Understanding of principles and best practices in business continuity, disaster recovery and Operational Resilience
• Ability to develop senior level presentations in PowerPoint and leverage MS Excel to perform data analytics and develop reports that will provide insights to senior leaders

Interested? 

If your experience is closely related but doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank! 

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. 

Location(s):  United States : New York : New York City

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.  

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