Manager, Initiatives

Requisition ID: 221187

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

In the role of Manager, Initiatives, you are responsible for strategic planning, monitoring, managing, and delivery of mission critical initiatives and projects for Fraud Threat Management. You have advanced project management expertise supporting initiative design, business case development, requirements development, project execution as well as broader program management capabilities. You are also responsible for identifying opportunities, advising on strategy, proposal development, recommending solutions, fostering external partnerships and responding to Fraud Threat Management objectives and priorities. You support incident resolution and prevention focusing on understanding solutions that can materially improve incident management and overall positive cyber-fraud outcomes for the organization.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Contribute and support the build and management of a strategic initiative management framework which supports Fraud Threat Management.
• Overseeing, documenting and implementing a project and initiatives dashboard, roadmap and related planning materials and artifacts.
• Obtain approvals from primary stakeholder(s) and control project scope, priorities, and schedule.
• Identify critical capabilities, project resources, budgets and critical path issues and reports to project owners, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate meetings, develop presentation deliverables related to initiatives and projects, and coordinate resource planning.
• Manage the day-to-day projects/logistics and the corresponding communications for each project (reporting, including tracking each critical step, outcomes and final deliverables.)
• Develop measurement and reporting on the value of changes, enhancements, planned impacts, training, documentation and knowledge management activities.
• Generate risk assessments, escalate issues, and facilitate project review presentations.
• Support the development and maintenance of process documentation and supporting knowledge management practices.
• Support the Fraud Threat Management roadmap that ensures the team is equipped with the expertise, processes, procedures, data, technology, and relationships they need to be successful in preventing, early detection, and response to account-level attacks.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to new members of the team to ensure adherence to Fraud Threat Management protocols, procedures, service-level commitments, and all associated playbooks.

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

• 5+ years working in project management, program management, fraud, cyber-fraud or security incident management.
• Strong analytics and problem-solving skills.
• Strong planning, organization and design skills.
• Excellent communications.
• Proficiency in Office 365 applications
• Bilingual in Spanish is an asset.

What's in it for you?

• A culture that promotes teamwork and cross-functional collaboration to achieve business goals. Inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, background, and experience
• A competitive compensation and benefits package
• Opportunity to work with a very enthusiastic team that helps our clients by ensuring the Bank is able to continue to operate to deliver key business services.
• Perfect for individuals who are both interested in business analysis and preparedness, but who also welcome responding to unpredictable events quickly
• Hybrid working environment allowing for work/life balance

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 banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.