Director, Economics, Global Technology

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Director, Economics, Global Technology

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

The Director, Economics, Global Technology is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving economic analysis, financial modeling, and value realization across the bank’s global technology portfolio. This role will provide critical insights to inform investment decisions, optimize technology spend, and support enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. As a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders, the Director will shape the economic narrative of technology strategy and execution.

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

Strategic Economic Analysis:

• Lead the development of economic frameworks to evaluate technology investments, including ROI, TCO, and cost-benefit analyses.
• Partner with Finance, Strategy, and Technology teams to assess the economic impact of emerging technologies, cloud adoption, and digital transformation.
• Analyze and model technology spend across global business units to identify efficiencies and opportunities for reinvestment.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting tools to track economic performance of key initiatives.

Value Realization & Business Case Development:

• Support the creation of business cases for major technology programs, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and financial targets.
• Monitor post-implementation value realization and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with senior leaders across Technology, Finance, Risk, and Operations to align economic insights with strategic priorities.
• Present findings and recommendations to executive committees and governance bodies.

Thought Leadership:

• Stay abreast of global economic trends, technology market dynamics, and regulatory developments impacting the financial services industry.
• Contribute to strategic planning and scenario modeling for long-term technology investments.
• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Creates an environment in which their team pursues effective and efficient operations of their 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.
• Builds a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviours; communicating vision/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team.

Regulatory Bodies &

Special Requirements :

Must understand and incorporate regulatory requirements from:

• OSFI (Canada)
• SEC (U.S.)
• EBA (Europe)
• Local data privacy and financial regulations
• Experience with regulatory reporting and compliance in financial services is an asset

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

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, Finance, Business, or a related field;
  Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in economic analysis, financial modeling, or strategy within a large enterprise, preferably in financial services or technology.
• Strong understanding of technology economics, including cloud financial management, software licensing, and infrastructure cost modeling.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive strategic outcomes.
• Exceptional analytical, communication, and presentation skills.
• Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and financial modeling software.

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