Associate Cash Collateral and Settlements Operations - 18-Month Contract

As an Associate Investment Operations you will support either the public or private Investment teams with transaction management asset servicing investment accounting reporting and valuations. You will also oversee the daytoday evaluation accounting and monitoring of relevant investment portfolios covering all asset classes and security types.

Team Description

The Collateral Management team is part of the Public Markets Middle Office within Technology and Operations. The team oversees daily margining activities including collateral exchange for ExchangeTraded Products OTC Derivatives Centrally Cleared Derivatives Repos Prime Brokerage Securities Lending and margin loans. This critical function ensures the mitigation of credit risk between parties and minimizes the effects of potential defaults.

Accountabilities

• Provide leadership and guidance in the daytoday management of investment operations functions; validating critical applications such as IBOR subledgers and ABOR daily completeness of supporting documentation validation of transaction amounts and ensuring appropriate authorizations are in place to facilitate investment closings.
• Partner with colleagues from the Investment Departments Finance Legal and Risk to assist in investment closings through documentation review system setups transaction entries and settlements.
• Assist in processing complex investments with the ability to understand impact on accounting reporting and performance.
• Assist in the review of financial statements note disclosuresand management reports to ensure accuracy and completeness as well as provide valuable insights and commentary.
• Assist in the quarterly/ monthly valuation review; ensure valuation adjustments are accurately recorded and bring any errors/ inconsistencies to managements attention. Provide insightful valuation analysis.
• Ensure Daily validation of position record keeping and private holdings & deals is accurate and delivered timely to support IDs and trading.
• Maintain an ongoing effective working relationship with internal investment staff and external asset managers to ensure issues are discussed and resolved and financial controls and reporting requirements are met.
• Build a reputation as a subject matter expert in the asset class you support for issues related to investment operations and accounting.
• Continually strive for operational excellence; seek ways to streamline processes and create operational efficiencies.
•  Maintain an ongoing effective working relationship with internal investment staff and external asset managers to ensure issues are discussed and resolved financial controls and reporting requirements are met.
• Help lead the team in striving for operational excellence assisting in creating process documents for new processes and/or updates to existing processes.
   

Qualifications :

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
• 5 years of relevant experience.
• Professional designations such as a CBV CFA CPA are considered an asset.
• Strong analytical financial and management accounting skills will be necessary to perform this role.
• Advanced Excel skills and comfortable learning new systems.
• Experience with Bloomberg Murex FIS Apex SimCorp Cassini Trioptima Acadiasoft is considered an asset
• Experience with SQL Python is considered an asset
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Adapt to rapidly changing business and technology environments
• Selfmotivated flexible adaptable

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Remote Work :

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