Associate
Scotiabank - Global Banking and Markets
About the Role
Contributes to the overall success of U.S. Treasury Liquidity & Analytics by supporting the management, execution, and ongoing enhancement of liquidity risk frameworks. Performs analytical reviews, regulatory interpretation assessments, methodology maintenance, monitoring, and governance activities. Ensures all activities are compliant with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Performs quantitative and qualitative analysis to support liquidity risk methodologies, framework enhancements, and management decision-making.
- Maintains inventories of FR 2052a interpretations, regulatory guidance, methodology decisions, and supporting rationale.
- Supports the development, calibration, documentation, and execution of liquidity stress testing methodologies, assumptions, and management buffers.
- Prepares governance materials, methodology documentation, committee presentations, and senior-management updates.
- Conducts trend analysis and ongoing monitoring of liquidity metrics, early warning indicators, limits, thresholds, and emerging risk drivers.
- Partners with Treasury, Risk, Finance, business, data, and technology stakeholders to assess liquidity framework impacts.
- Supports control execution, issue identification, root-cause assessment, remediation planning, and closure validation.
- Contributes to regulatory examinations, internal audit reviews, model governance activities, and information requests.
- Coordinates with business and technology partners to investigate and resolve data quality, reporting, and process issues.
- Performs impact assessments for new or revised regulatory guidance, methodology changes, product developments, and balance-sheet initiatives.
- Supports periodic methodology reviews and identifies opportunities to improve analytical processes, controls, documentation standards, and reporting efficiency.
- Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Risk Management, Data Analytics, or a related discipline.
- Experience in Treasury, liquidity risk, regulatory reporting, financial risk management, banking, or a related analytical role.
- Working knowledge of liquidity risk concepts, stress testing, regulatory reporting, and governance practices; familiarity with FR 2052a is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze financial data, identify trends and anomalies, and translate findings into clear business conclusions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with high attention to detail, documentation quality, and data traceability.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, exercise sound judgment, and work effectively across business, risk, data, and technology teams.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with data visualization, query, or analytical tools is an asset.