Associate, Regulatory and Business Initiatives

Requisition ID: 192696 Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture. **Associate, Regulatory and Business Initiatives Group - Toronto, ON** **Global Banking and Markets**: Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank’s strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world. Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group. Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries We work together to drive ambition for every future **Purpose**: Leads and oversees Regulatory and Business Initiatives in Canada ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures. **What You'll Do**: - Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge. - Manages smaller projects, or smaller workstreams of more complex Programs from initiation and planning, to execution and delivery or provides senior BA support to more complex Programs - Manages risks and issues appropriately and provides support to the project manager and manages co-ordination between multiple delivery teams and key stakeholders - Independently manages project governance and contributes status updates for senior management - 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. - Builds a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviours; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team. - Manages multiple stakeholders and co-ordinates between multiple functions to manage effective projects - Manages local projects or workstreams in global projects or provides senior BA support in more complex Programs - Responsible for discrete pieces of work or workstreams, manages across multiple teams - Responsible for attending any trade association meetings or peer bank meetings related to the regulatory topic being worked on and sharing knowledge with the RIG team - Responsible for contributing to RIG regulatory capital, project best practice and general team tasks within the RIG team - Responsible for bringing new regulatory developments and strategic insights to the RIG team to inform team priorities **What you'll bring**: - Project management or business analysis experience - Financial management or business analysis experience - Experience of regulation, compliance or capital markets experience preferred **Work Arrangement**: **Interested?** 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. 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