Investigator, Digital Forensic Services

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Champions a customer focused culture 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.

• Actively 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.

• Liaise with law enforcement, regulators, and other corporate security personnel for the purposes supporting investigations and intelligence gathering as required.

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the latest cyber-enabled crime, trends and threats to contribute to the department’s efforts to continually enhance its investigative methodologies, processes, technology, and tools, ensuring they remain effective, efficient, and aligned with the department’s strategic goals and objectives.

• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Technical Investigations:

• Investigating and managing known or suspected cyber-enabled crime internal and externally against the Scotiabank Group and its affiliates, ranging from low to medium complexity and gather sufficient evidence to assist in determining criminal and civil remedies against the perpetrators.

• Work with management and various departments on major project such as system and or application development and implementation to assist with investigations.

Digital Fraud Investigations:

• Conduct digital fraud investigations using various tools and techniques to identify, track and report fraud patterns, trends, and potential perpetrators as well as their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) and making recommendations on fraud risk mitigation strategies to key stakeholders and line management. This includes investigating various forms of cyber-enabled fraud such as phishing, malware, scams, social engineering, account takeover, targeted cyber attacks, and crimeware.

• Contribute to the use of data analytics and various search strategies echniques to enable analysis of all forms of electronic media to detect potential fraud patterns and anomalies and investigate digital artifacts from criminal behaviors.

• Contribute to the preparing digital fraud investigative reports, metrics, statistics, and digital fraud trend reports for line management, and/or other stakeholders. This includes providing clear and concise investigative report findings and recommendations to senior management and other stakeholders and that all activities are conducted in compliance with Banks policies, and applicable laws and regulations.

Forensic Examinations:

• Conduct low complexity digital forensic investigations on electronic devices, networks, and cloud-based services to collect, preserve, analyze, and interpret digital evidence relating to various forms of misconduct investigations. This includes ensuring the allegations are well founded and provable, with a high expectation of a successful outcome to avoid potential risk to civil liability. This entails the preparation of supporting internal/external communications, including court briefs as necessary and the development and execution of forensically sound operational action plans with attention to detail documentation and preservation of evidence.

• Prepare high quality investigative forensic reports for senior management or other key stakeholders. This includes articulating complex and technical information findings clearly and concisely to nontechnical stakeholders, including senior executives, business unit heads, legal teams, and law enforcement.

• Testify and represent the Scotiabank Group and affiliates as an expert witness in criminal and civil proceedings, as required.

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