Manager, Asset Services

Requisition ID: 175666

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

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**Global Banking and Markets**

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.

**Purpose**

Contribute to the overall success of the Asset Services - Corporate Action Processing Team ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed/delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted follow governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

The incumbent will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of Voluntary or Mandatory Corporate Action event, which include but are not limited to the following activities; ensuring all client instructions have been processed, understanding of each event expiries, the events are processed in a correct and timely manner, the events are processed with the correct tax reporting and ensuring out of balances are reconciled in a timely manner and an action plan to resolve created.

The incumbent will also work closely with the Corporate Action Management Team in the identification, initiation, research, and development of process solutions across the team, with the intent of improving overall operational efficiency/effectiveness while ensuring that compliance, risk and regulatory issues are adhered to.

**Accountabilities**
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- 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 vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team. Demonstrate strong leadership and interpersonal skills capable of managing, leading, and coaching/training a team of employees.
- Champions a culture of continuous operational improvement by independently resolving highly complex, multi-faceted problems to meet the business needs across MO with a specific focus on creating tangible / measurable operational efficiencies. This involves opportunity identification, preparing proposals, defining business requirements and processes, developing, testing, conversion and implementation strategies, developing detailed project plans, monitoring progress against planned objectives, and securing consensus and co-operations from users and senior management.
- Performing daily operational activities in support of corporate action voluntary events; managing event expiries, double checking each file for errors, researching complex events, and other issues
- Actively 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

**Requirements**:

- Previous experience managing a team
- Subject matter expert well versed in the entire lifecycle of all mandatory Corporate Action Events.
- Familiar with Swift Corporate Action messaging.
- Understanding of Tax consequences regarding Corporate Actions events (Section 302. Etc).
- Strong reconciliation and analytical skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to negotiate, influence and interact professionally with a diverse group of Front Office Users, QAs, Developers, and SMEs
- Strong Excel Skills, VBA, Broadridg