Sean McGuckin, group head and chief financial officer (CFO), Bank of Nova Scotia, will take a leave of absence to attend to an illness in his family, the bank announced on Wednesday
The Toronto-based bank’s board of directors has appointed senior vice president and chief accountant, Raj Viswanathan as acting CFO, effective immediately.
In addition, the bank announced the two more changes to its finance team:
Charles Emond, currently managing director and co-head, global investment banking has been promoted to executive vice president, finance;
Chadwick Westlake, currently senior vice president, structural cost transformation and lean, will become senior vice president, structural cost management and Canadian banking finance.
Both Emond and Westlake report to Viswanathan.
“Our thoughts are with Sean and his family at this time,” said Brian Porter, president and CEO at Scotiabank, in a statement. “During his absence, the board and management at Scotiabank have the utmost confidence in Raj Viswanathan to steward the bank’s financial, accounting and reporting needs.”