Manager, Data Change & Intelligent Automation - Scotiabank, Toronto

About this opportunity

Global Transaction Banking (GTB) at Scotiabank is the core payments and transaction engine, supporting Small Business, Commercial, and Corporate clients with effective treasury management solutions. As businesses enhance their digital capabilities and transform operating models, their payment needs evolve. GTB offers a comprehensive suite of innovative banking solutions to help clients achieve operational efficiencies, streamline and simplify payments, improve working capital performance, and mitigate financial risk.

This Manager, Data Change & Intelligent Automation role is crucial for the High Value Payments Modernization Program. The position involves executing data-related change initiatives and contributing to the design, implementation, and operation of advanced analytics and LLM-based agent capabilities. These capabilities augment processing, analysis, reconciliation, and exception management across various payment platforms and downstream consumers.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Change & Intelligent Automation, this role demands hands-on analysis, coordination, and execution of data change activities. It ensures that impacts, dependencies, reconciliation requirements, and automation use cases are thoroughly documented, tested, and operationally ready. The incumbent will collaborate closely with Technology, Operations, Finance, and Risk partners to support the safe delivery of target state payment capabilities, aligning with enterprise control and governance standards. This role contributes significantly to the overall success of Global Transaction Banking globally, supporting Scotiabank careers focused on innovation in financial services.

Responsibilities

• Supports data change strategy execution across High Value Payments initiatives, including system migrations, data model changes, and downstream impact remediation.
• Performs detailed data impact analysis across accounting, settlement, reconciliation, reporting, and operational consumers.
• Supports data migration planning, cutover preparation, and parallel-run execution, including reconciliation setup and issue tracking.
• Produces clear documentation for data flows, impacts, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Contributes to the design and implementation of applied LLM-based agent and analytics use cases (e.g., reconciliation analysis, exception triage, lineage analysis, reporting support).
• Works with Technology and Data teams to help configure, test, and validate agent-enabled capabilities in controlled environments.
• Ensures automation solutions operate within defined business rules, controls, and human review processes.
• Supports testing, validation, and operational readiness activities for intelligent automation solutions.
• Assists in identifying data and automation-related risks, defects, and quality issues.
• Ensures documentation and evidence support audit, risk, and compliance expectations.
• Operates in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, Code of Conduct, and risk culture.
• Partners with Operations, Technology, Finance, Treasury, Risk, Compliance, and Data teams to execute assigned deliverables.
• Translates technical and analytical findings into clear, structured updates for senior stakeholders.
• Supports stakeholder communication by preparing materials, summaries, and decision support artifacts.
• Identifies opportunities to improve data quality, reconciliation efficiency, and operational insight through analytics and automation.
• Contributes to the evolution of data and automation standards, templates, and best practices within the Payments change function.
• Actively builds knowledge in payments processing, data change, and intelligent automation capabilities.

Who we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• 5–7 years of experience in payments, banking operations, data analysis, technology delivery, or transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to high value payments (e.g., wires, clearing, settlement) is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with analytics tools, automation platforms, or LLM-enabled solutions for applied business use is an asset.
• Strong documentation, coordination, and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• Solid knowledge of accounting, reconciliation, and control frameworks within a banking environment.
• Experience designing LLM-based solutions, analytics platforms, or automation capabilities for applied business use is a strong asset.
• Strong documentation, governance, and stakeholder management discipline.

About the company

Scotiabank is committed to fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential. Global Transaction Banking (GTB) is a fast-growing team with a focus on the Americas, particularly Canada, the U.S., and Mexico, seeking top-tier talent for Scotiabank jobs.

Scotiabank offers a comprehensive suite of flexible benefit programs designed to support employees' unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs, promoting holistic well-being. The bank embraces individual strengths, ideas, and ambitions, encouraging a performance-oriented culture.