Director, Strategic Support, Global Risk Management

Requisition ID: 218211

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

Scotiabank’s Risk Transformation Management Team is seeking a Director, Strategic Support to join our team. We are building a leading, best-in-class Global Risk function to maintain customer trust, deliver efficiencies across business units, and be trusted advisors and partners to protect the Bank’s reputation.

This role will support and working closely with the Group Head & Chief Risk Officer (CRO), serving as a thought partner and strategic advisor and reports directly to the VP, Transformation Office. This role supports the CRO to maximize his/her impact and further GRM strategic priorities. There are four critical areas where this is achieved: effective time management, forward planning, strategic support and relationship management.

This role is responsible for the overall success of the Global Risk Management (GRM) function ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s 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**:

- Lead and drive stakeholder focused culture. Enable the Group Head & CRO to deepen client relationships and leverages broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Deliver or be a key participant on special projects and business initiatives, as assigned by the CRO, that drive business value.
- Act as a trusted partner to the CRO, helping define priorities and ensuring the CRO is set up to achieve them by:

- Driving the effectiveness and efficiency of CRO’s time and ensuring it aligns with the most critical organizational priorities, where the Global Head’s voice is specifically necessary
- Gathering necessary information and analyses from various sources and key stakeholders, to identify opportunities for synergies to drive operational awareness and meet objectives
- Developing integrated and holistic strategies to ensure CRO is well-positioned to make decisions on a range of issues
- Building an understanding of the critical work that is happening across the business group and surfacing issues, bright spots, and challenges
- Proactive identification of issues that could impact the successful execution of the CRO’s commitments. This responsibility involves elevating those issues that the CRO should be aware and framing/positioning ideas to resolve the problem/mitigate the risk
- Acting as a liaison/advisor to senior bank leaders and external stakeholders, as appropriate, to help advance both the division’s priorities and the bank’s strategic priorities.
- Ensure the Senior Management Team operate effectively as a group, including:

- Partnering with the CRO and others to build a strong culture and sense of team among the different groups
- Working with the senior management team and key stakeholders in the coordination of strategic external and significant internal events for the CRO, including priority regulatory affairs, regions/business groups and events
- Orchestrating and facilitating group events, meeting agendas, logistics, and follow-ups both within the senior management team and across the Bank. Ensuring that meetings, deadlines, presentation, and other duties of the CRO office are carried out seamlessly.
- Overarching priorities include:
- Support on key priorities for the year and ahead and coordinate with groups responsible for priorities to receive consistent and frequent updates on progress being made- Working with Communications on speech creation, community forum content, and thought leadership pieces about Global Risk Management both externally and internally.- Act as a strategic advisor by making informed recommendations for use of CRO’s time, voice, and in responding to potential concerns- Supports Bank-wide initiatives by leveraging the voice, strategy, and participation of the CRO, thereby ensuring alignment across internal and external communication channels and employee groups. Identifies and eliminates duplication and inefficiencies across groups, as it relates to the CRO- Directs day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank’s risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits. Communicates the Bank’s risk culture and risk appetite statement throughout accountabilities- Creates an effective and efficient operating environment, 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 p