Requisition ID: 233935

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Senior Client Service Associate, Commercial Agriculture Banking (Contract)

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of Canadian Business Banking, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities are conducted in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

The Sr. Client Service Associate “Sr CSA” provides the Directors, Associate Directors and Sr. Client Relationship Manager in the Agriculture National Account group of Canadian Business Banking with support needed to service client requirements and new asks. This will include coordinating efforts with internal partners and directly reaching out to clients to address various activities such as resolution of escalated client challenges, collection/processing of financial reporting, diligence for credit needs, satisfaction of funding requirements and onboarding needs. The role is specific to servicing of the Agriculture National Accounts Segment in Canadian Business Banking.

*This is a contract for approx. 20 months

** All locations across Canada will be considered.

Accountabilities:

Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.

Working closely with Director, Associate Directors and Sr. Relationship Managers, Agriculture National Accounts, the Senior Client Service Associate is responsible for providing the following services to a portfolio of existing and prospective clients:

• Onboarding: Supporting the collection of information directly from clients and from various sources necessary to assess the client’s risk profile in order to ensure the Bank meets its regulatory requirements related to KYC, AML, etc. This includes contacting clients, sourcing internal/external sources/web sites, documenting information in Know Your Client documentation in various formats such as the Client Profile Information documents and responding to various internal Compliance groups.
• Client servicing escalations:  Help resolve service-related matters raised by the client directly to the Director, National Accounts. This responsibility does not replace the servicing provided through the Business Service Center and is typically credit in nature or day to day servicing.
• Credit related tasks:  (a) Contact clients for financial reporting and spread Financial Statements, Projections and Borrowing bases, review results, escalate any signs of deterioration and update appropriate systems; (b) commence preparation of Credit Presentations; (c) assist with completion of conditions precedent, diligence and any other requirements necessary to obtain approvals (d) ensure client files are complete and appropriately documented in various systems  such as SDR, e-tracker etc. and (e) general support as necessary in the annual review process and other credit related situations needed to maintain portfolio quality.
• Fulfilment: Coordinating efforts with the client and various internal partners (e.g., BSC, EDDU, CRA, GBM) to ensure loan funding and business account openings are fulfilled as per customer expectations.

Provide status information on the progress of various fulfilment, KYC, AML onboarding and service requests and ensure bottlenecks or delays are promptly escalated with a plan to resolve

Look for opportunities to make suggestions to continually improve processes and client satisfaction metrics. This may include actioning feedback received directly from clients or through client satisfaction vehicles such as the Pulse

Champion and support a culture of diversity and other initiatives aligned with the Bank strategy

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, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.

Champions a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vision/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Reports into:  Market Vice President and Market Leads, Agriculture National Accounts, Canadian Business Banking

Direct Reports: • None

Dimensions:

• The Sr. Client Service Associate will be responsible for supporting Directors and / or Associate Directors and / or Sr. Relationship Managers on the National Accounts- Agriculture team of Canadian Business Banking.  
• The clients being serviced are involved in the Agriculture industry in Canada and generally within the same region although they could have operations across the country as well as in international locations. These clients will be both borrowing (over $25MM) and non-borrowing.  Borrowing Clients typically have complex to sophisticated financial solutions.
• Strong organizational skills are necessary to manage significant data from multiple sources and balance various tasks from client service administration to borrower reporting processing to credit related support.
• The Sr. Client Service Associate will typically receive requests from the Director, Associate Director &/or Sr. Relationship Manager in Agriculture National Account but may also at times be requested to support Directors & Group Lead and Vice Presidents in Canadian Business Banking. 
• The Sr. Client Service Associate will interact primarily with the following partners: Global Risk Management, the Business Service Center, Enhanced Due Diligence Unit CRA, Syndication Team and Global Banking and Markets, but could include other partners as well as the Canadian Business Banking Executive Office.
• The Sr. Client Service Associate will also interact with external parties such as Solicitors, Accountants, Professional Service Providers and External Bank various Groups including Syndication.
• The Sr. Client Service Associate continually works with clients providing service consistent with Scotia Service Standards, Complaint Resolution Standards and Procedures. 
• The Sr. Client Service Associate looks for opportunities to promote the sale of bank product and services.

The environment is fast paced and demanding and will at times require priorities be re-adjusted to accommodate urgent requests.

Education:

• University / College degree with Finance, Accounting or Other Business Specialty background, or equivalent work experience.
• Commitment to participate in other training requirements as determined by the Bank from time to time.

Skills/Work Experience:

• One to three years of experience in the Agriculture sector preferred and / or exposure and knowledge of the Agriculture market.
• Strong commitment to excellent client service and ability to work with clients to resolve issues in an amicable and prompt manner.
• Strong organizational skills to co-ordinate and prioritize a number of concurrent requests from different Client Relationship Managers, Directors and Associate Directors.
• Strong interpersonal skills to obtain agreements within Canadian Business Banking and partners.
• Strong written and verbal skills with proven ability to engage stakeholders and clients.
• Strong knowledge of Onboarding, Know Your Customer, Anti Money Laundering processes.
• Good knowledge of Financial Statements and credit analyse.
• Good knowledge of credit structures and applicable risk management.
• Good knowledge of fulfilment processes and roles of partners.
• Good knowledge of Canadian Business Banking partners and their involvement in servicing clients. In particular knowledge of the Business Service Center, Enhanced Due Diligence Team and Cash Management teams is important.
• Good knowledge of Canadian Business Banking structure.
• Thorough knowledge of the applicable software and technology platforms for Canadian Business Banking (e.g., Sales Force, Intralinks, Teams).
• Good knowledge of the features and benefits of Commercial products and services.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (in particular Excel).
• A high degree of flexibility to adapt to a wide variety of tasks.
• Strong commitment to accuracy, customer focus and results focus.

Working Conditions:

• Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence.

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Stratford || Canada : Alberta : Calgary || Canada : British Columbia : Vancouver || Canada : Manitoba : Winnipeg || Canada : Nova Scotia : Halifax || Canada : Ontario : Toronto || Canada : Saskatchewan : Saskatoon 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

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