Manager, Finance

Scotiabank•Toronto, ON

19d•Onsite

About The Position

Leads and oversees financial and operations management for Canadian Banking Marketing’s program budgets ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed/delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures. In this role, the incumbent will lead and drive a customer-focused culture, develop and implement financial management processes, manage financial operations and administration, act as a subject matter expert for the department’s financial management tool (Anaplan), and provide operational support to Global Marketing’s senior management team. The role also involves understanding and integrating the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture into daily activities, creating an environment for efficient operations and effective controls, working directly with stakeholders, and building a high-performance team.

Requirements

3-5 years of experience in financial management and/or accounting operations and administration.
Strong knowledge of accounting principles and requirements.
Advanced excel skills.
Strong planning and co-ordination skills required to simultaneously support multiple projects and complete deliverables on time.
Experience developing and implementing ongoing process improvements.
Exercises sound judgement/discretion, makes most decisions regarding day-to-day operation and escalates when necessary.
Detail-oriented worker who seeks perfection.

Nice To Haves

University degree with Major in Business or Accounting an asset.

Responsibilities

Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
Develops and implements financial management processes, including: ensuring effective budget controls are in place and all expenses are processed in alignment with the Bank’s accounting processes and policies; documenting expense management processes and work flows, ensuring that they are maintained and that unit level reporting is accurate; identifying, presenting, and initiating ongoing process improvements to create efficiencies; working with other departments to streamline processes; developing expense management forms and templates; communicating new procedures/policies to staff across the department.
Manages financial operations and administration, including: monitoring all budget line items ensuring that they are on budget/forecast; contributing to monthly/quarterly variance analysis and forecasting for Canadian Banking Finance; managing process for HST reporting with internal and external stakeholders (Accounting, Reconciliation & Regulatory, Provincial Auditors etc.); preparing accruals/deferred charges as required; and trouble-shooting issues associated with paperless invoicing processes.
Acts as a subject matter expert for the department’s financial management tool – Anaplan and is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the expense data tool, including: ensuring that expense information is properly coded and entered into the system; reconciling monthly General Ledger reports from Smart Stream against Anaplan; managing the set-up of new users, providing training for new Marketing team members; providing ongoing support and technical assistance to users; managing updates to reflect the budget structure; and working with external development/support team as required.
Provides operational support to Global Marketing’s senior management team including, but not limited to: operational risks and related risk management activities; Business Continuity Planning; Procurement; Audits; Enterprise Regulatory Compliance Management; Risk and Control Self-Assessment; NIRA; Records and Information Management; and Business Environment & Internal Control Assessments.
Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, 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 Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
Works directly with stakeholders (Marketing team) on an ongoing basis to complete job responsibilities mentioned above.
Builds a high performance environment and implements 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.