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Team Lead, Collections

Requisition ID: 104398Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

 

 

Purpose

Leads and oversees a team within the Collections department of Scotia Dealer Advantage in Canada ensuring
business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations,
internal policies and procedures.

 

Accountabilities

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and
leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Plans, organizes and directs the activities of the Collections Advisors to ensure adherence to
optimal delinquency ratios and loan loss levels by: monitoring timely and constructive collection
activity conducted by telephone, letter, text message, e-mail, or other appropriate means; ensuring
effective and efficient use of the automated call distribution and outbound predictive dialer systems;
determining an equitable distribution of advisor workloads that is consistent with levels of expertise to yield
optimal collection and follow-up.
• Assists with the review and analysis of a broad range of reporting information on delinquent
lending portfolios by: working closely with other Team Leads and the department Managers to
constantly interpret outbound and inbound calling queues, ensuring an adequate number of advisors are
assigned to each account stream and making necessary adjustments to maximize efficiency; reviewing
daily, weekly and monthly department performance & operations reports and provide adequate operations
strategizing or proper performance management and support; recommending appropriate changes to
policies and procedures that will assist in maximizing the recovery of delinquent accounts.
• Assists with the control of the business objectives of the department ensuring operational
effectiveness by: recommending appropriate changes to workflows that will provide efficient operations
and meet service standards to customer, compliance and security policies; ensuring control over routine
expenditures including variable compensation payouts to Collections Advisors; assisting with the
recruitment and hiring members in accordance with standard Bank policies of new team members.
• 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 his/her team 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.
• Builds a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and
motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vison/values/business
strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.

 

 

Job requirements

 

• Completion of a post-secondary education (college or university) preferred.

• Bilingual in both French & English languages
• Strong organizational and time management skills; the ability to prioritize, allocate and monitor
workload; using sound judgment to address problems and discrepancies.
• Proven interpersonal and communications skills to successfully conduct operational activities,
and influence others to become operationally effective.
• A high degree of flexibility is required to adapt to a variety of tasks and functions.
• Strong PC skills are necessary as the incumbent uses a PC for a variety of operational,
service management and related activities.
• Thorough knowledge of daily and periodic department routines, procedures, policies and
workflows.
• Thorough knowledge of SDA’s products, services, and operating systems.

 

 

Working Conditions

• Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence. Hours of work may
include shift work or split shifts to accelerate customer contact.
 

Location(s):  Canada : Quebec : Anjou 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.

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