Title:  Senior Financial Analyst

Requisition ID: 249237 

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

Purpose

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

Accountabilities 

•    Maintains the central financial datasets and spreadsheets, including financial results, and master transit/ account hierarchies, used by Technology Finance for planning, forecasting, and reporting. Use different tools to create, update and support the database with strategic decisions.

•    Implement automation to increase the team’s efficiency.

•    Prime liaison with main technology support team

•    Prepares and presents complex financial data and information in a meaningful, concise, and user-friendly manner for Technology Finance management (i.e., data visualization).

•    Implements continual improvements to processes and reporting to meet evolving business requirements and best practices.

•    Ad hoc analysis and reconciliations on a monthly/quarterly basis

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

•    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 his/her 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. 

•    Demands at month-end/quarter-end are high in terms of financial reporting requirements; must manage workloads and produce high quality output efficiently to meet tight deadlines.
•    As a key business partner, must effectively build relationships with the key partners across Finance and Technology

Education / Experience / Other Information 

•    Undergraduate degree in computer science with finance knowledge preferred.
•    Experience working with large datasets / databases.
•    Data visualization, data illustrations and automation 
•    Strong technical skills:
-    Proficiency with VBA coding 
-    Advanced Excel
-    Power BI
-    Powerpoint
-    SQL (would be an asset but not required)
•    Attention to detail is crucial.
•    Knowledge of financial and management reporting principles as applied to banking issues, and an understanding of the business planning process, dealing with accounting systems, budgets, and internal controls.

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

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.