Bilingual Director, Business Transofrmation,GTB 12 Months Contract (EnglishSpanish)

Requisition ID: 237604

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

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 GTBs 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

Contributes to the overall success of the Business Initiatives office globallyensuring the execution of key projects for GTB with impact in P&L and analyzing the GTB projects portfolio to prioritize investments. Ensures all activitiesconducted are in compliance with governing regulations internal policies and procedures.

What Youll Do:

• Direct the ideation development execution of large-scale strategic initiatives to support GTBs strategic plans and objectives by:
• Supporting the creation of strategic initiatives and conducting analyses required to determine scope impact and dimension of projects
• Developing and managing the project plan and clearly communicating expectations and goals to all team members and stakeholders
• Guarantying the in-time execution of projects and the deliverables of expected results
• Clearly defining and articulating business concepts outcomes and key success metrics for each project/initiative
• Identifying key underlying assumptions business and technology risks prerequisite initiatives and supporting actions and formulating mitigation plans
• Determining the organizational and financial feasibility of the project
• Evaluating post implementation impact of projects
• Redirecting projects efforts due to regulatory or technological constrains
• Leading the development and ongoing tracking/reporting of project metrics(project dashboards)
• Ensuring ongoing communication of project status completing monthly status reports and escalating issues as required to the Director
• Keeping projects moving with a sense of urgency by actively participating in the project team sprint reviews and driving milestones
• Strategic engagement and influencing of stakeholders to manage prioritization and change delivery
• Drive change management efforts within GTB by:
• Prioritizing new potential projects to be develop in IB territories
• Ensuring cross-departmental socialization on program status as well as highlighting key risks and major constraints
• Preparing workflows/procedures to ensure new functions/processes are integrated into the operational environment
• Ensuring proper determination of workflow effort differences between existing and recommended processes
• Identifying areas for improvement and assessing cost efficiency and risk
• Serve as a facilitator and relationship-builder among key stakeholders with sometimes competing priorities by overseeing/coordinating partner socialization around major themes of change and proposed initiatives
• Lead the team into a high-performance environment to maximize impact in day-to-day work
• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships systems and knowledge.
• Understand how the Banks risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabanks 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.

What Youll Bring:

• PMP certification (or equivalent) and or excellent hands on experience with end to end project management of multi-year complex technology projects
• Working knowledge of Agile principles cadences and processes
• Strong project management knowledge including plan development scheduling methodology risk reporting risk assessment budgeting financials and benefits management.
• Strong understanding of the domestic and global transaction banking and payments landscape and market usage across segments
• Ability to clearly articulate and communicate complex business concepts associated with the transaction banking domain
• Experience in applying design thinking principles to define and solve business problems
• Comfort working in an agile matrixed environment
• Hands on experience with payments modernization programs either domestically or globally (e.g. US UK Australia Europe)
• General knowledge of global transaction banking trends and technologies
• Strong technical ability with PowerPoint Excel and Word
• Bilingual Preferred: Spanish and English

Interested

If your experience is closely related but doesnt 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. Thats why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

Whats 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.

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.