Title:  Senior Manager, Strategic Portfolio Office- Global Transaction Banking

Requisition ID: 249258

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

Global Transaction Banking

Global Transaction Banking (GTB) is the payments and transaction engine of Scotiabank. We support Small Business, Commercial and Corporate clients with effective treasury management solutions coupled with a best-in-class service model, making it easy for clients to do business with us.

As businesses build their digital capabilities and transform their operating models, their payment needs are evolving too. Boasting a unique global footprint, GTB’s comprehensive suite of innovative banking solutions help our business clients generate operational efficiencies, streamline and simplify payments, improve working capital performance, and mitigate financial risk.

At Scotiabank, we embrace your strengths, ideas, and ambitions. GTB is a fast-growing team with a focus on the Americas, particularly Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and we are seeking top tier talent to complement our organization.

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

Purpose

The Senior Manager, GTB Strategic Portfolio Office (SPO), supports the COO & Internal Control department within Global Transaction Banking (GTB), acting as a strategic advisor and thought partner. Reporting directly to the Director & Head, GTB Strategic Portfolio Office, the role contributes to delivering the SPO mandate by ensuring that goals, plans, and initiatives are effectively executed in support of GTB’s business strategies and objectives.

The incumbent is accountable for enabling the overall success of the SPO function by ensuring that all activities are carried out in alignment with governing regulations, internal policies, and established procedures. The role also plays a key part in advancing GTB’s strategic priorities across Canada, the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

What You’ll Do:

• Strategy & Leadership Support
• Serve as a trusted partner to GTB senior leaders by delivering insights, recommendations, and strategic analysis.
• Champion a customer-focused culture and leverage enterprise relationships, systems, and knowledge to strengthen business outcomes.

• Financial Planning & Operating Budget Management

• Act as the primary liaison between the GTB SPO and GTB CFO Office, ensuring business inputs are accurately reflected in the GTB operating budget.
• Work with GTB leaders to maintain up‑to‑date operating budgets, incorporating adjustments related to staffing and other operating expenses, and coordinating required updates with the GTB CFO Office.

• Portfolio Governance & Executive Reporting

Collaborate closely with the Director, Investment Portfolio of GTB to prepare executive‑level reports for the GTB Project Portfolio, as well as ad‑hoc analysis and reporting required by the GTB COO Office or GTB EVP Chief of Staff.

Support preparation for portfolio governance meetings and Executive Committee discussions by providing timely insights, data, and analysis.

• Annual Planning & Performance Monitoring

• Contribute to the integration and coordination of the GTB Annual Plan (Operating Budget and Investment Portfolio), working with the Director, Investment Portfolio and GTB leadership.
• Lead and support status reporting and planning meetings, proactively identifying, escalating, and mitigating issues and risks to ensure successful plan completion.

• Operational Efficiency & Controls

• Identify, document, and support the development of action plans aimed at achieving GTB’s operating budget targets. Ensure that financial and operational updates are communicated effectively to GTB leadership through established governance, reporting, and escalation processes, including materials for executive reviews involving Business Lines, Finance, and other stakeholders.

• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered, creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
• 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 operations, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.

What You'll Bring:

• Business finance acumen, Banking industry experience, understanding of Banks’ operating models for managing projects, capital allocation, P&L management including operating budgets.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying key messages out of complex data to articulate the story telling of the business outcomes
• Hands-on experience with end-to-end initiatives, project management experience desired

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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):  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.  

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