Manager, Reporting

Requisition ID: 218652

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

Global Finance - Reporting, Canadian Banking (CB) is a divisional finance function providing financial management and analytical support to Canadian Banking executive management, as well as to the business line management in Retail Banking, Business Banking, and Tangerine areas. The Manager is a member of the Reporting & Analysis team reporting to the Senior Manager, Reporting and Analysis supporting Canadian Banking. This is a critical function for the Canadian Banking division and has the responsibility for ensuring effective P&L management and optimization of business investments with Canadian Banking’s strategic priorities. The Manager has responsibility for the accurate, comprehensive and timely preparation and financial information of CB's monthly and quarterly results, ensuring accurate, comprehensive and timely delivery of reporting and analysis from both statutory and business line perspective, for use in BNS executive and senior management reporting and decision-making. Contributes to the overall success of Global Finance - Reporting ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed and delivered in support of business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

**Is this role right for you? In this role you, will**:
1. Assist with the preparation of quarterly and monthly reporting on assigned Canadian Banking statutory and business line financial results:

- Coordinate and collect financial data from business units.
- Perform reasonability review of statutory expense reporting.
- Review, analyze and prepare statutory journal entries, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Perform analysis of various variances between actuals for Canadian Banking direct units and support groups to ensure accuracy and completeness and understandings of significant transactions.
- Communicate with individuals in various business units during period close and on an ongoing basis.
- Respond to queries from senior management and participate in the investigation and resolution of reporting issues.

3. Support Senior Manager in efforts to enhance financial reporting and analytical processes:

- Co-ordinate processes with other Manager Reporting and assist with leading Senior Analyst.
- Assist with the annual business line rule set up and chart of account (COFA) management processes
- Identify issues and make recommendations with a focus on process improvement

4. Act as a prime liaison with assigned CB units while building strategic relationships to provide support.

5. Provides coaching and training to colleagues and business 1 partners on processes
- Champion a customer focused culture to deepen relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- 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, while ensuring the adequacy and adherence to 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 Guidelines for Business Conduct.

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

- Post-secondary degree in Finance or Accounting
- Minimum 5 to 7 years of relevant experience.
- Completion or enrollment in an accounting program is preferred (i.e. CPA, MBA)
- Solid business acumen and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team and ability to communicate with individuals at different levels and a variety of skill-sets and organizational perspectives.
- A solid understanding of financial and management reporting principles. Knowledgeable of the Bank’s products, operations and procedures.
- A good understanding of elements of effective control over integrity and completeness of financial reporting.
- Highly flexible, detail-oriented, and able to cope with changing priorities and to multi-task under tight deadlines and deliver with a great amount of accuracy and completeness.
- Excellent attention to details and time management skills.
- Knowledge of financial accounting and generally accepted accounting principles.

**What’s in it for you?**
- An inclusive & collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success
- We offer a competitive rewards package: Performance bonus, Employee Share Ownership Program, and Pension Plan Matching, Health Benefits from day one
- Your career matters You will have access to career development and progression opportunities.

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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

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