Job Description: Associate Director, Valuations - SLC ManagementWhat is in it for you:The Associate Director, Valuations is responsible for end-to-end valuation delivery and operational enablement across asset classes, with a focus on valuation platforms, vendor-provided pricing, execution stability, and issue resolution. This hands-on leadership role ensures accurate, timely, and consistent valuation outputs for Finance, Risk, and external clients while driving scalable processes and maintaining a strong control environment. The Director will collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners to resolve complex operational challenges and enable valuation teams to perform effectively at scale.
What you will do:- Oversee daily and month-end valuation delivery across asset classes, with accountability for accuracy, timeliness, and operational stability.
- Serve as a hands-on execution backstop for Asset Class Leads during periods of elevated risk, complexity, capacity constraint, or system instability.
- Review and challenge valuation outputs for high-risk, high-visibility, or complex items before release.
- Own valuation platforms, workflows, and vendor-pricing integrations supporting fixed income, exchange-traded products, and complex instruments.
- Lead the implementation, testing, and stabilization of new valuation capabilities, products, and system enhancements in partnership with Technology and external providers.
- Drive remediation of recurring system issues, pricing-feed failures, and process breakdowns affecting valuation delivery.
- Act as the primary escalation point for cross-asset, cross-system, and other complex valuation issues.
- Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of pricing challenges, stale or missing prices, and unexpected valuation movements.
- Design and oversee daily operational controls that proactively identify and mitigate valuation risk.
- Identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements that reduce manual effort and improve scalability.
- Manage and develop team members through execution support, mentoring, and technical guidance.
- Communicate valuation and operational issues clearly to senior management and other stakeholders.
- Partner with Valuation Governance, Finance, Risk, and Audit by providing operational analysis, audit support, and comprehensive documentation
What you need to succeed: - 5+ years of experience in securities valuation, valuation operations, or a closely related financial-services role.
- Demonstrated experience owning processes, platforms, and operational delivery .
Experience working with third-party valuation providers, valuation systems, and cross-functional business partners. - Demonstrated ability to manage change, resolve complex operational issues, and deliver under tight deadlines.
- Leadership experience, including managing, mentoring, and providing technical guidance to team members.
Preferred skills - Strong knowledge of fixed income and third-party valuation vendor ecosystems.
- Experience with valuation and market-data platforms, including Aladdin/BlackRock, Bloomberg, and vendor pricing feeds.
- Advanced Excel and analytical tooling skills.
- Strong business judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Proven change-management skills and the ability to lead through complexity and tight deadlines.
Self-motivated, execution-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. - Strong relationship-building, consensus-building, and influencing skills across Front Office, Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk, Governance, and Audit.
Why SLC Management? - Opportunity to work for a growing global institutional asset manager
- Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being - mental, physical and financial - including generous vacation and sick time, market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top up program, a partially-paid sabbatical program and much more
- Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match to help build and enhance your future financial security
- A flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture focused on career growth development #WeWinAsATeam
- The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
- Award winning workplace culture - Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the U.S., "Best Places to Work" by Glassdoor, Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work, "Best Places to Work in Money Management" by Pension & Investments
Job Category: Finance
Salary Range80,000/80 000 - 128,000/128 000
We are committed to pay transparency and equity. The base salary range for this role is competitive and we strive to ensure that compensation is fair and equitable. Your actual base salary will be determined by your unique skills, qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive award based on individual and overall business performance along with a broad range of competitive benefits.
