Job Description

Requisition ID: 259745

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

The Senior Manager, Business Analyst (BA) is accountable for leading and evolving the Business Analysis capability to enable a modern, Digital Agile operating model across Global Wealth Management (GWM). This people leader will report to the Digital Product leadership and ensure BAs are positioned as strategic delivery partners – embedded in persistent teams driving decision quality, backlog readiness, and delivery predictability.

This role plays a critical part in shifting delivery to a continuous discovery, definition, and execution model, improving speed to value while reducing rework, risk, and dependency-driven delays. This role sets and enforces quality standards that drive velocity, predictability, and a shared understanding across product, design, and technology. The leader will build BA capability from discovery to delivery, ensuring consistently ready backlogs, partnering with product leadership to align BA capacity to funded OKRs and delivery commitments.

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

• Provide direct people leadership to ~11 BA’s in GWM Digital, establishing clear role expectations and performance standards positioning the BA practice as outcome-oriented delivery partners.
• Be accountable for hiring, onboarding, coaching and development plans, performance management, and succession planning, with a strong focus on developing the BA capability across the delivery spectrum.
• Define, maintain, and enforce enterprise grade BA standards and ways of working that operationalize the agile model & act as the functional quality authority for requirements and backlog artefacts, ensuring delivery readiness, predictability, and alignment across product, design, and technology. You will evolve the BA practice to align with modern digital product and agile delivery models.
• Own BA capacity planning and allocation across digital portfolios, with a focus on aligning BAs to persistent product portfolios and stable teams to enable sustained velocity. You will proactively identify and mitigate risks related to capacity, skill, or structural constraints when staffing choices create delivery risk.
• Serve as the functional authority for BA across Product, Technology, Design, Operations, Risk and Compliance, resolving cross-functional constraints that impact the team’s ability to deliver. You will partner with product to translate strategy and funded OKRs into executable roadmaps with delivery commitments and represent the BA function in portfolio and prioritization forums to surface risks and trade-offs.
• Be accountable for ensuring BAs directly enable agile delivery teams through sustained backlog readiness, disciplined refinement and sprint execution, and effective cross-team collaboration. You will use delivery outcomes, velocity, and readiness metrics to identify issues and drive continuous improvement from discovery to development & lead BA contribution to large-scale transformation initiatives by ensuring business and process change is clearly defined, decision-ready, and executable.
• Direct activities consistent with Scotiabank’s risk culture and risk appetite while creating an environment in which the team operates in accordance with the Scotiabank Code of Conduct and all applicable regulatory and compliance requirements.

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 business, Technology, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, digital delivery, or related roles, with demonstrated people leadership experience
• Strong expertise in digital business analysis, agile delivery, and requirements management
• Proven experience leading and developing high performing analyst teams
• Financial services or wealth management experience preferred
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels

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.