What You’ll Do
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Review effectiveness of risk management and treasury / liquidity controls and measurement techniques, limit design and monitoring, and risk reporting based on a detailed understanding of underlying trading strategies, products and processes.
- Assess the design effectiveness of risk management and treasury / liquidity functions, including interaction with the first line and stakeholder and regulatory reporting.
- Work with auditors within the audit department to perform end-to-end business line reviews.
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
- Maintain strong knowledge of capital market risk management practices, policies and procedures and local regulations.
- Provide support to stakeholders on risk management issues and / or changes.
- Active engagement and coordination with Stakeholders for audit issue resolution.
- Support the unit’s continuous monitoring program to understand and identify changing conditions within business, risk and corporate functions, keep abreast of changing risk profiles, guide assessment of emerging risks, identify systemic issues and determine current and future audit requirements.
What You’ll Bring :
- Technical / Professional qualifications such as MBA, CFA and / or CIA.
- 7-10 years of progressive experience in capital markets risk management environment.
- Strong knowledge of liquidity / treasury, financial risk management areas (e.g., counterparty credit, market, interest rate) model risk management, and audit functions.
Prior auditing experience in these areas. Exposure in working with risk management and liquidity / treasury personnel would be an asset.
- Strong analytical skills necessary to assess risk exposures and understand risk quantification and valuation methodologies.
- Ability to quickly understand the risks associated with new products, processes, routines and formulate audit procedures to ensure that the controls are adequate.
- The incumbent must be resourceful, a self -starter, possessing a high degree of flexibility, creative thinking and confidence to carry out effective solutions.
Well-developed judgment, management, decision-making and problem-solving skills are required in order to effectively deal with a rapidly changing, complex business environment.
- The incumbent must possess expert time management skills in order to manage multi-functional accountabilities through prioritization, delegation, motivation, conflict resolution and the promotion of ideas.
- Excellent written communication skills are essential, with superior issue and audit report writing skills. In addition, the incumbent should be skilled at verbal engagement and presentation, of a caliber suitable for direct exposure to executive management.
- Working knowledge in risk based audit methodologies.
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.