The Senior Manager leads and oversees Corporate Security – Investigation Services (Regional) team in Canada ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

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

• Lead and drive a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Prevention: Lead the development of strategic global crime awareness initiatives, educate, and create awareness throughout the Bank on evolving criminal trends, both organized and opportunistic. Responsible for sharing and disseminating information and intelligence with key regional, national, and global sources of information and work directly with law enforcement agencies to proactively develop strategies to mitigate risk.
• Detection: Detect criminal attacks against the Bank, its employees, customers, assets, and programs through effective communication with key stakeholders and Executives through prevention/detection presentations and regular meetings. Identify the presence of organized criminal activity by ensuring every matter within our mandate is thoroughly investigated and reported on.
• Response: Responsible for ensuring that all reports accurately reflect the investigative findings and that recommendations made to the appropriate business line are clearly identified to ensure there is no continuance or reoccurrence and the overall risk is mitigated. Lead an investigative team in response to incidents by assessing risk and providing effective oversight of investigations and conduct investigations of the highest complexity.
• 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 their 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.
• Build a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and managing succession and development planning for the team.

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

• Post-secondary degree and/or University/College courses in Human Resources and/or business law and/or law enforcement or equivalent training.
• Courses in investigative practices, methods, and enforcement strategies, interviewing and negotiation skills
• People management or Employee Relations experience is preferred
• Excellent oral and written skills
• High degree of fluency in English required; French/Spanish desirable.
• 8 to 10 years of experience conducting misconduct, due diligence, major financial crimes and/or fraud investigations.
• Working knowledge of relevant federal and local laws and regulations in respective jurisdictions where the Bank operates.
• Working knowledge of the judiciary system, both criminal and civil processes and the rules of admissibility of evidence.
• Working knowledge of IT applications, systems, security controls.
• A valid driver's licence is required

What's in it for you:

• Authorized Complement: 5
• Independently develops and/or approves action plans and is expected to manage with minimum direction and functions autonomously in day-to-day issues.
• Exceptional situations/issues with significant risks to the Bank are referred to the Director with recommendations/solutions as applicable.
• A high degree of discretion and judgment is required to solve problems and make decisions that may impact an investigation.
• On occasion will receive assistance from internal and external resources.
• Budgetary accountabilities by ensuring expenses are submitted on a monthly basis (when applicable) and expense requests are responsible and cost sensible