Legal Counsel

1 week ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Scotiabank Full time

Is this role right for you?

In this role you will:

  • Champion a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
  • Recommend and communicate high-quality and valued advice and counsel on a broad range of legal matters related to employment law or the application of Bank policies and practices that affect employment issues including the design of new, or review of existing policies, programs, and strategies ensuring alignment with Scotiabank's HR strategies and relevant legislation; and the identification, examination, and remediation of systemic employment law issues and risk arising out of organizational, legislative, or other environmental changes; and Provide advice and recommends solutions at all levels of complexity by: understanding client needs and key issues, assessing risks and providing options; ensuring fairness and consistency in process, policy, and practice; communicating clearly and concisely the application of employment law
  • Represent the Bank's interests at hearings, mediations, and civil proceedings. Takes a lead role in employment and customer human rights investigations, as well as administrative hearings. Where external counsel is retained, manage counsel on behalf of the business line.
  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal business units and external industry groups
  • Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
  • Actively pursue 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 Code of Conduct.
  • Champions a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vision/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

  • Graduate of a recognized law school
  • At least 4 years private practice or in-house experience with a specialty in Employment Law
  • Membership in the law society of one of the provinces of Canada
  • Primarily provides domestic support with support to the Global HR team
  • Ability to provide research, legal analysis, relying on strong experience, expertise, and sound judgment
  • Bilingual French and English an asset

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