Title:  Senior Manager, Strategy, Solutions and Controls

Requisition ID: 263382 

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

Contributes to the overall success of the IT Remediation & Horizontal Programs within Office of the Chief Information Officer globally 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.

This role is accountable for shaping and executing the strategy, governance, and delivery of Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and data-driven insights across the organization, supporting senior management and Board-level decision-making.

The role leads the design, governance, and continuous evolution of Cybersecurity and IT Risk metrics, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory expectations, and Second Line of Defense (2LOD) requirements. The role partners closely with the Director, Strategy, Solutions & Controls to defines and advances best practices, scalable solutions, and tooling to enhance the efficiency, quality, and maturity of KRI design, back-testing, and production

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Champion a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Maintain a centralized inventory of metrics and owners, assessing and documenting proposed changes, and translating those changes into clear impact summaries
• Collaborate closely with the metrics team to gather, clarify, and translate business requirements into clear metric definitions and specifications
• Lead and drive the evolution and continuous improvement of 'metrics factory' - enhancing processes, governance, tooling, and scalability to support efficient metric development, maintenance and reporting across the organization
• Assist to drive innovation across the metrics space through automation, improved processes, and modern data engineering practices
• Collaborate with technical teams to ensure data structures, pipelines, and governance frameworks support enterprise wide reporting needs.
• Participate in the annual metrics refresh to identify required changes, ensure alignment with strategic priorities, and support updates to definitions and scope
• Interpret regulatory requirements and translate them into actionable data, reporting, and metric production deliverables
• Proactively identify gaps, risks, and emerging expectations, ensuring accountability and continuous improvement in regulatory readiness
• Establish governance practices aligned with enterprise standards, addressing 2LOD expectations and regulatory requirements
• 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.
• Champion a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment..

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• At least 5+ years working experience in the banking industry
• University degree in Business, Technology, or related field
• Proven track record of delivering fit-for-purpose solutions as committed
• Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into clear, actionable insights
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing across business, technology and risk functions
• High attention to detail and strong organization skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Sound judgement and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced, evolving environment

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employees to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - 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. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance. 
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital and much more!

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.