Scotiabank

Manager, Automotive Strategy Enablement

Scotiabank$100K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • University degree (preferably in computer science, economics, finance, or business)
  • 2+ years in retail lending, technology, or risk management
  • Experience with FICO technologies (e.g., Originations Manager, Decision Modeler)
  • Strong technical skills in analytics tools (e.g., SAS, SQL, Power BI)
  • Excellent communication and business writing skills
  • Curiosity to learn and explore new tools and techniques

Responsibilities

  • Monitor performance metrics to enhance lending strategies
  • Maintain current knowledge of automotive retail lending policies
  • Drive the automation of digital risk with modern technologies
  • Collaborate with various teams for effective credit strategy implementation
  • Analyze portfolio performance and identify risk segments
  • Stay updated on the competitive landscape for automotive financing
  • Support strategic projects ensuring compliance with risk frameworks

Benefits

  • Inclusive and collaborative work environment
  • Competitive rewards package including bonuses and share ownership
  • Career development and progression opportunities
  • Health benefits from day one
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 269406

The mandate of this role is to support with acquisition credit risk strategies and policy for the Automotive portfolio to optimize risk/return within Global Risk Management to meet Canadian Banking strategic priorities. In this role, you will be responsible for the following key items

  • Monitor key performance indicators and leverage insights to develop, implement, and provide technical tests of lending strategies.
  • Maintain current and in-depth knowledge of Automotive retail lending policies, strategies, and market trends
  • Drive digital risk automation through integration of modern digital risk technology and client centric policy design
  • Continuously leverage new toolsets and techniques in day-to-day responsibilities


The Manager, Automotive Strategy Enablement, Canadian Retail Credit Risk, GRM will work in close collaboration with centre of excellence teams, automotive business partners, risk technology, front-line technology teams, compliance teams, and external vendors to ensure credit strategies are implemented accurately and consistent with the Risk Appetite Framework. Candidate will also be expected to drive continuous improvement in technology design, deployment/testing techniques, and best practices in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

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

Change management & Technology
  • Drive digital risk automation through integration of modern digital risk technology and client centric policy design
  • Obtain subject matter experts in risk technology design, deployments, testing, validation processes across the retail footprint, especially using FICO DMP suites of software
  • Ensure strict adherence to deployment, testing, documentation, and release management processes, and provide effective challenge to key stakeholders where required
  • Perform post-implementation validation & track performance of digital risk implementation
  • Continuously leverage new toolsets and techniques in day-to-day responsibilities
  • Act as a change champion to transform the retail risk implementation model in alignment with ongoing technology migrations.


Support Strategy Design & Implementation
  • Work closely with business and portfolio policy team to support the technical design of credit risk strategies, calculations, policy for the automotive finance portfolio,
  • Ensure successful implementation of strategy changes within the adjudication engine and perform pre/post implementation test and validation activities
  • Ensure the design of development process adheres to regulatory and governance requirements.


Portfolio Analytics and Simulation Testing
  • Use a variety of tools (ex. SAS, Excel, Python, MongoDB, powerBI etc.) to provide dynamic analysis on key performance metrics to various stakeholders in GRM and business lines in support of production releases
  • Leverage existing portfolio monitoring and reports to drive insights, identify opportunities, and address any at-risk segments
  • Conduct pre/post-implementation validation of strategies via decision simulation to ensure accurate implementation and alignment with expected results.


Automotive Financing Competitive Landscape
  • Stay informed of competitive landscape, partnering with the business line to ensure that as risk managers our processes, strategies and policies consider the changing landscape.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with external business partners (e.g., OEMs, third party vendors, credit bureaus and dealer portals) where required, to support in strategy build, or technology support.


Support Business Line Initiatives/projects
  • Ensure all business line strategic projects (i.e., new product launches, changes to existing product offerings, new channels, new acquisition framework, changes to approval strategies) are consistent with Risk Appetite Framework. Identify opportunities and make recommendations
  • Represent Risk's point of view and liaise with the stakeholders (operations, product owners, collections, technology, governance) throughout the organization to listen actively, communicate, and explain risk measures clearly and as appropriate identify, evaluate, and address credit risk that arises from the development, deployment, interpretation, and maintenance of Credit Risk Policy in support of new products/program development, portfolio performance issues, product enhancements, changes to the industry and regulatory landscape, and business operations


Governance & Oversight
  • Support GRM effective challenge function, ensure Credit Risk Proposals are prepared with strong financial and quantitative analysis, and that risks are effectively assessed and measured.
  • Obtain an understanding of the Automotive Credit strategies and policy, recommend enhancements, and document new processes and workflows to support succession planning.
  • Support investigations and solutioning for questions/findings from OSFI and Internal Audit in an appropriate /acceptable timeframe.


Inclusion & Scotiabank Values
  • Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective ares in accordance with Scotiabank's Values, our ScotiaBond, our Code of Conduct and vendor management policeis 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
  • Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.


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

  • A university degree is required (preferably a major with computer science, engineering economics, finance, or business)
  • 2+ years in retail lending, technology, or risk management experience required
  • Experience in FICO based technologies such as Originations Manager, Triad, Decision Modeler, Blaze etc. is a strong asset
  • Strong technical skills in database and analytics, and testing tools such as SAS, SQL, MongoDB, Tableau, Power BI, XML and Postman; experience with non-relational databases and working knowledge of programming languages such as NodeJS, python, Java etc. is a strong asset
  • Excellent communication and business writing skills complemented with solid logical/deductive reasoning, sound judgement and creativity
  • Strong personal time management skills and curiosity to learn, explore, and discover is a must
  • Functional knowledge of retail credit risk lifecycles, credit and behaviour scoring, credit risk model designs and applications
  • Familiarity with project management techniques and agile working framework is an asset


What's in it for you?

  • An inclusive & collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
  • We offer a competitive rewards package: Performance bonus, Employee Share Ownership Program, and Pension Plan Matching, Health Benefits from day one!
  • Your career matters! You will have access to career development and progression opportunities.


Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

About Scotiabank

Scotiabankers are committed to helping individuals, companies, and communities to thrive in a changing world. From personal and business banking, brokerage, and insurance, to private wealth, and the most sophisticated commercial, corporate and institutional services, they serve the diverse needs of some 21 million customers in more than 55 countries. Founded in 1832 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, their growth has always been fuelled by the success of their customers and their longevity secured by an unshakable commitment to carefully and expertly managing risk and capital. That focus on doing what's right for customers—short- andlong-term—has made us a global financial services leader. Headquartered in Canada, they are over 86, 000 Scotiabankers strong. Each of us are committed to being the best at understanding their customers' needs and all of us working together to deliver practical advice and relevant solutions that help their customers become financially better off.

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