Director and Program Manager, Strategy & Delivery Global HR Tech.

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

4d • Onsite

About The Position

This role contributes to the overall success of the GHRT Payroll, Time, Core HR and Rewards teams globally, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, and initiatives are executed/delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. The position ensures all activities conducted are compliant with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures. The role requires a solid understanding of technologies, project management, and life cycle development methodologies, as well as technical insights pertaining to the area. It involves matrix reporting relationships for team members in Bogota to build a high-performance environment and retain, develop, and motivate the team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behavior, communicating vision/values/business strategy. The individual must understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions. The role also requires actively pursuing effective and efficient operations 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 regarding operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions, and conduct risk.

Requirements

• 5-10 years’ experience in managing medium & large sized complex projects that have significant IT and operational components.
• Expert familiarity with project management methodologies.
• High Degree of specialized technical knowledge (SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Employee Central Payroll (ECP), Time & Attendance systems, Pension and Benefits and integrations).
• A recognized bachelor’s degree in business or technology.
• Creative, self-starting, results-oriented and highly motivated individual with very good analytical skills to apply this knowledge to independently resolve complex business problems.
• Strong strategic and analytical capability. Thinks critically to evaluate broad impacts of work.
• Able to assess difficult compliance and other regulatory issues, exercise sound judgment expeditiously with respect to such issues and defend decisions.
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective business relationships, influence others and comfort interacting with senior executives (VP+).
• Must have a very good understanding of current IT practices, systems development techniques, and keep current with rapidly changing technology.

Nice To Haves

• Financial Industry experience preferred.
• PMP Designation an asset.
• Fluency in Spanish an asset.

Responsibilities

• Champions a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Partners with Global HR in the end-to-end business case creation process, providing technology-specific expertise for effort and financial estimation, and facilitating communication between key stakeholders to arrive at an agreed-upon final business case.
• Develops communication strategies for Executive approval through to implementation of strategies and programs.
• Direct accountability for the management and delivery of a portfolio of multiple technology projects in support of Global HR.
• Develops strategies and executes on initiatives to move all geographies towards the global standard, ensuring new initiatives have a global application, except as required to meet specific local regulatory requirements, and are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.
• Guides and mentors project managers from the Project Delivery and Support (PD&S) team in the successful delivery of projects, acting as an SME on the Scotiabank Enterprise Delivery Framework (EDF) for assigned project managers.
• Monitors the status of projects to ensure conditions are accurately depicted and that major risks and issues are receiving the appropriate level of attention.
• Oversees the completion of monthly Project Status Reports and presents them to senior leadership, including the Business Sponsor, Project Leadership Team (PLT), and Steering Committee (as required).
• Manages matrix reporting relationships for team members in Bogota to build a high-performance environment and retain, develop, and motivate the team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behavior, communicating vision/values/business strategy.

Benefits

• A rewarding career path with diverse opportunities for professional development.
• A culture that promotes teamwork and cross-functional collaboration to achieve business goals.
• Inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, background, and experience.
• An organization committed to making a difference in our communities – for you and our customers.
• Opportunity to work with a very enthusiastic team that helps our clients by ensuring the Bank is able to continue to operate to deliver key business services.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director