Title:  Vice President, Global Payroll & Total Rewards Solutions

Requisition ID: 241663

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

Vice President, Global Payroll & Total Rewards Solutions

Purpose

• The VP, Global Payroll & Total Rewards Solutions, provides strategic direction, oversight and leadership in the delivery of the Bank’s Global Payroll & Total Rewards programs ensuring specific goals, plans and initiatives are deployed and delivered in support of Global HR’s strategies and objectives. Conducts and ensures all activities in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities 

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Defines the Global Payroll & Total Rewards delivery strategy of each plan/program, ensuring all policies and programs are aligned with business needs, capabilities and objectives. This includes, compensation, global mobility, executive services, pension, benefits, workplace accommodation and occupational health and safety. 
• Leads the overall deployment of the Bank’s Payroll & Total Rewards programs through various internal and external vendor systems within the Bank, ensuring alignment with legislative requirements, internal standards/policies and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). 
• Partners across Global HR Services, Global HR Technology, Global HR Total Rewards COE, Legal and all other business lines to provide leadership, consultation and technical subject matter expertise in the implementation, deployment of Global Payroll &Total Reward policies and programs.
• Leads the operational excellence mandate aimed to design and deliver transformational initiatives and process improvements in the deployment of the Bank’s total rewards programs globally. Thereby, improving, modernizing and standardizing the employee experience while mitigating operational risk. 
• Defines and implements continuous improvement initiatives based on both self-serve and Tier 2 service performance as well as industry standards and best practices to ensure optimized value-added delivery of programs.
• Builds external networks to maintain knowledge of industry best practices related to relevant operating models, employee experience – including communication, and education.
• Establish and maintain effective and ongoing relationships with the numerous service providers, vendors and consultants.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Create an environment in which the team pursues effective and efficient operations, 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 Bank’s Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and Guidelines for Business Conduct. 
• Build a high-performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment, communicating vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team. 

         
Education & Experience 

• Experience delivering payroll & total rewards programs on a global basis.
• University degree or related designation (CEBS, CHRP, CCP, GRP)
• Extensive compensation experience in a large, global corporate environment.
• Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of payroll, total rewards programs and human resources policies, practices and standards.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple projects/changing priorities concurrently under tight timelines and with multiple stakeholders.
• Requires interaction with an increasingly broad range of stakeholders (internal and external) to influence results and lead implementation of programs.
• Proven success in leading high-performing teams, motivating others to perform at their best and building relationships with diverse stakeholders
• Resilient and adaptive to evolving business needs.
• Highly motivated and results oriented, with ability to operate independently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, listening, facilitation and presentation skills to work collaboratively with other team members, across teams and with different business groups.

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.