Manager,ernance - Scotiabank (Ireland) DACRequisition ID: 233027
Join a purpose driven winning team,mitted to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Purpose
Contributes to the overall success of Scotiabank (Ireland) DAC (SIDAC) entity by ensuring the effective and efficient implementation of the internalernance framework.
Ensures allernance activities are conducted inpliance witherning regulations, internal policies, and procedures.
Supports Corporate Secretary on corporateernance matters.
Providesernance subject matter expertise to SIDAC business and corporate functions.
Accountabilities
ernance Framework design and effectiveness
• Contribute to the design of the overallernance Framework at SIDAC, providing advice and subject matter expertise to ensure it meets all regulatory and internal policy requirements;
• Maintain close review all legislative, regulatory and corporateernance developments that might affect the operation of the Board or management structure, and assisting with Board briefings on these developments;
Corporate Secretary Support
• Providing assistance to the Corporate Secretary on any corporateernance matters, and managingpany secretarial matters, acting as a delegate as appropriate;
• Support board administration duties such as agenda setting, minute taking, action management, arrangement of directors training, onboarding activities, annual evaluations;
Policy and Records Management
• Maintain and updateernance policy documents as required, ensuring they are current and aligned across the entity and Scotiabank group;
• Manage centralernancemunications and records management, establishing processes and standards as required;
• Maintain records and documentation to ensure a continuous 'audit ready' environment forernance;
• Co-ordinate responses toernance related audit or regulatory exams or assessments;
mittee effectiveness
• Design standardized managementmittee management information requirements, establishing and overseeing high standards of quality and consistency inmittee information;
• Design oversight mechanisms to ensure effective oversight ofernance related activities within key processes across the entity;
• Lead the annual assessment of the effectiveness ofmitteeernance;
• Partner with stakeholders across London and Toronto to streamline and standardize processes where opportunities arise, applying a global mindset to all activities;
Leadership
• Champions a customer focused culture 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.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatorypliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatorypliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Code of Conduct.
• Contributes to a high performance environment and fosters an inclusive work environment; supporting the vison/values/business strategy for the team.
Dimensions
• This is an individual contributor role, reporting to the Head ofernance and Strategic Initiatives.
• As an individual contributor, the individual will have a high degree of autonomy and expected to be a self-starter and a strong collaborator across a wide range of stakeholders in Dublin, London and Toronto.
• Project work is a feature of this role. The job holder will be required to both participate in and organize projects. The job holder will need to be able to prioritize projects and tasks coordinating with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Will be required to support correspondence with the Central Bank of Ireland correspondence for queries and actions and assist with the coordination of inspections as they may arise.
• Required to manage, prioritize and execute diverse activities and projects concurrently. Schedules are often influenced by changing priorities. The individual may adjust plans and schedules at short notice to meet changing conditions and deliver on priorities on a timely basis.
• Due to the diverse and multi-disciplined nature of the position as well as the stand-alone nature of SIDAC, the incumbent is required to maintain a very high degree of flexibility and cooperation as well as undertaking responsibilities outside of the defined accountabilities.
• Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
• The job holder will also champion a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Work in a standard office-based environment in an active separate mind and management subsidiary; non-standard hours are amon occurrence.
Education / Experience
• Solid experience in financial services corporateernance,pliance, risk management or internal audit.
• Bachelor degree in a business, legal based or other relevant discipline
• Corporateernance experience in a regulated financial services organization, ideally wholesale banking.
• Experience in developing / drafting policies and procedures.
• Strongputer skills including Word, PowerPoint & Excel; intermediate level
• Strong organizational skills and high attention to detail is essential
• Possess excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills to deal with all levels of staff, senior levels of management and Board.
• Excellentmunication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and without direct supervision
Location(s): Ireland : Leinster : Dublin
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