Associate Director/ Director, Hedge Fund Coverage, Prime Services, Global Banking & Markets

Overview

In this role you support Scotiabank’s regional Prime Services by strengthening hedge fund client relationships, ensuring compliant execution of strategies, and coordinating across stakeholders. You will drive revenue growth while managing risk, liquidity, and regulatory obligations. The role combines client engagement with cross‑functional collaboration to deliver efficient, compliant operations in a high‑pressure environment. This is an opportunity to influence regional trading coverage and capital markets outcomes within a global bank.

Responsibilities

• Manage client pricing, trading, corporate actions/hedging, risk, spread and dividend management in collaboration with credit, risk, product control, tax, senior management, and operations
• Drive a customer‑focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage bank-wide systems and knowledge
• Ensure operations adhere to Scotiabank’s values, code of conduct, and global sales principles, with strong day‑to‑day controls for compliance and risk
• Provide regional product responsibility for trading, dividend exposure, corporate actions and regulatory compliance
• Promote Scotiabank in the securities finance market and cultivate long‑term opportunities through stakeholder relationships
• Actively cross‑sell within Prime Services and other bank areas; coordinate with relationship managers to improve profitability
• Communicate and collaborate with GBM management and support groups (TFRM, Treasury, GWO) across business units
• Hit client and revenue targets while managing risks within limits and tax guidelines

Key requirements

• Experience in client facing equity cash and derivative trading
• Strong interpersonal/relationship skills
• Degree / CFA or similar business qualification or equivalent work experience
• Strong understanding of macro and micro market demand factors
• Regional qualifications and certifications for trading and supervisory (PRA/FCA/FINRA/FRB/OSFI etc)
• Willingness to work non-standard hours and travel domestically/internationally

• interpersonal/relationship skills
• collaboration with stakeholders
• data-driven decision making
• equity cash trading
• derivative trading
• corporate actions/hedging

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