Description:
The incumbent will play a critical role in the overall development of the First Line testing team and will be responsible for supporting multiple testing reviews and projects to meet tight deadlines and global objectives.
Is this role right for you?
- Create, present, and execute on testing roadmaps to meet plan objectives
- Responsible for maintaining and developing key procedural documentation for First Line Testing
- Understanding of controls, audit testing methodologies and issue identification and documentation
- Support a team through the full testing lifecycle that includes planning, conducting fieldwork, reporting and issues management
- Ability to interpret applicable regulations to ensure testing is reasonably designed to identify instances of potential non-compliance with regulatory requirements or internal requirements
- Stakeholder management to communicate testing requirements, timelines, and results effectively and collaboratively
- Support the preparation of testing reports and recommend corrective actions to management that will address root cause of any identified gaps
- Escalate issues and risk events in accordance with team and Scotiabank standards
- Support a customer focused culture throughout the team to deepen client 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
- Create an environment in which the team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct, and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions, and conduct risk
Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, law, or equivalent work experience
- A minimum of 5 years of compliance, audit, or testing experience are strongly preferred
- Knowledge and comprehension of capital markets regulatory, compliance and legal requirements
- Knowledgeable about industry best practices, common issues in the regulatory control processes is strongly preferred
- Project management experience is an asset
- Analytical, investigative, reporting, and planning skills
- Outstanding written and spoken communication abilities
- Excellent teamwork, and interpersonal skills
- Highly organized and capable of dealing with complex projects
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 banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.