Requisition ID: 252223 

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

Scotiabank continues to be an industry leader for Payment’s technology and innovation. We have a history of safely leveraging new tools to enable new experiences for our customers, focusing on ensuring we protect their interests and goals. The result of this leads to modernization programs which aim to offer enriched information and transparencies to support the rapidly evolving payments community.

Purpose

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for leading complex, cross functional initiatives from initiation through delivery, ensuring projects are executed on time, within scope, and within budget. This role provides strategic guidance, risk management, and stakeholder alignment to enable predictable outcomes and seamless delivery of business and technical capabilities. They serve as a steady, trusted leader who brings structure, transparency, and collaborative problem solving to fast paced environments, ensuring project success and positive customer and employee experiences. This role will contribute to the overall success of the Global Low Value Payments Engineering – Trade Finance teams to ensure accurate and timely execution of our organizational priorities.

What You’ll Do:

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Lead end to end delivery of medium to large scale projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical strategies.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource plans.
• Drive scope clarity and scope control, ensuring all dependencies and constraints are actively managed.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Serve as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders across business, technology, and vendor teams.
• Communicate progress, risks, and decisions through clear, concise dashboards, status updates, and executive presentations.
• Build strong relationships that promote transparency, trust, and shared accountability.

Risk, Issue & Change Management

• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks to ensure predictable delivery.
• Lead structured problem solving to address cross team challenges and escalate when necessary.
• Manage project change requests with full impact assessment and stakeholder buy in.

Financial & Vendor Management

• Own project budgets, financial tracking, forecasts, and reporting.
• Partner with procurement, vendor management, and third party suppliers to ensure quality deliverables and contract compliance.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure adherence to enterprise project governance, regulatory expectations, and compliance standards (e.g., audit, security, privacy, payments compliance when applicable).
• Maintain project documentation that supports enterprise reporting, post‑implementation reviews, and audit readiness.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to the refinement of project delivery practices, tools, templates, and repeatable processes.
• Mentor junior project managers and project coordinators to support organizational capability building.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Organizational Expectations

• 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 in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, 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.

What You'll Bring:

Education & Certification

• Post-secondary degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• PMP certification strongly preferred; additional credentials (PMI‑ACP, PgMP, PRINCE2, or Lean/Agile training) are an asset.

Professional Experience

• Project management experience at a senior level in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrated success delivering cross‑functional technology or enterprise projects.
• Experience in financial services, payments, or highly regulated industries is an advantage.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong command of project management methodologies (Predictive/Waterfall, Hybrid, or Agile where applicable).
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder‑management skills with the ability to influence without authority.
• Proficiency in project management tools (MS Project, Jira, or similar).
• Proven ability to manage budgets, vendor relationships, and contract deliverables.
• Skilled in risk management, negotiation, facilitation, and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and drive clarity in fast‑moving environments.

Working Conditions

Work in a standard office-based environment.

Interested?

If your experience is closely related but doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!

At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove, and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs.

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

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.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our  Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.