Intermediate Investment Monitoring & Reporting AnalystLocation: Hybrid in Toronto (York Mills)
The total target compensation (TTC) range, including salary and target bonus, is $78,480 - $125,350. This TTC range is applicable to permanent roles only. The actual base salary offered within this range will be determined by the successful candidate's skills and experience, as well as internal equity.
Empire Life is looking to hire an Intermediate Investment Monitoring & Reporting Analyst to join our Investment Finance team! We are actively seeking candidates to fill a current, open position.
What you'll be working on
- Develop and Maintain Monitoring Frameworks:
- Participate in establishing and maintaining comprehensive procedural documentation, job aids, and internal control documentation to ensure current and accurate investment monitoring and reporting processes.
- Regulatory Adherence and System Programming:
- Assist in the ongoing maintenance of an inventory of relevant investment policy limits as well as measuring against regulatory and investment guideline limits.
- This involves programming, maintaining, and annually testing investment monitoring rules within the trade order management system and investment administration system, as well as within offline monitoring tools outside of the systems, to ensure their ongoing accuracy, completeness, validity and operational integrity.
- Stakeholder Consultation and Reporting:
- Support stakeholders, including portfolio managers, by providing analytical insights and answers regarding investment monitoring rules, warnings, and violations/breaches.
- Participate in preparing and/or supporting required regulatory filings and generating daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly investment restriction monitoring reports, ensuring clear and consistent communication.
- Investment Reporting:
- Assist in the development, maintenance and preparation of various financial, management and Board reports on investment activity, holdings, attributes and company assets under management.
- Execute analytical reviews of investment results and other investment-related quantitative measures to validate accuracy/reasonability of reported figures.
- Participate in the ongoing rationalization of the inventory of programmed reports in the investment systems, as well as the programming, maintenance/updates and required testing of system-based reports to ensure they appropriately capture changes to investment portfolios, holdings/security types and/or the business.
- Support the maintenance of a system of controls over programmed and other key investment-related reports to ensure only appropriately authorized changes are made to reports and reports are consistently accurate and complete.
- Broker Relationships:
- Provide support to the portfolio management team, legal and compliance area or other areas within Investment Finance with respect to investment data requirements, establishing/refreshing broker relationships, market openings, etc. and assist in maintaining a document repository of all relevant agreements and correspondence.
- Vendor Interactions:
- Collaborate with third party service providers and vendors as relevant and assigned.
- Business Continuity:
- Participate in developing and maintaining business continuity plans for Investment Monitoring and Reporting activities.
- Coaching:
- Responsible for sharing knowledge with and coaching peers and other team members and staff on relevant policies, procedures, workflows and core investment monitoring and reporting concepts and approaches.
- Process Optimization and Data Integrity:
- Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying and proposing process enhancements to maximize efficiency and ensure appropriate operational controls around investment reporting as well as investment monitoring and compliance-related activities.
What we're looking for you to have- Required Knowledge:
- An understanding of investment monitoring principles, regulatory limits, and reporting requirements.
- Proficiency in reconciliation controls and data integrity best practices.
- Familiarity with investment systems and databases, including their programming and reporting functionalities. Knowledge of the EZE OMS and SS&C Technologies Portia would be an asset.
- Experience:
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant investment experience at a financial institution.
- Experience working in an investment compliance function or team with related responsibilities is a differentiating asset.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining detailed procedural documentation.
- Proven ability to work with and analyze large, complex datasets.
- Experience in identifying and/or implementing process improvements.
- Prior experience in programming and testing investment compliance rules and/or investment-related reports within financial systems is highly advantageous.
- Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new systems and team structures, with a focus on becoming a super user for critical applications.
- Education:
- A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- If you are applying for a position which is open to applicants across Canada, unless otherwise indicated in the position, language proficiency in English is required for communicating with customers, advisors, or employees across Canada.
- Our hiring process includes AI screening for keywords and minimum qualifications. Recruiters review all results.
Beyond the salaryFor permanent full-time positions, Empire Life offers a comprehensive total rewards package that includes:
- Hybrid work model
- Competitive salaries with annual pay increases
- Annual bonus program, which recognizes both strong company performance and individual contributions, for non sales positions
- Access to learning & development programs, and education/tuition reimbursement (role dependent), to support your professional growth and career advancement.
- Competitive uncapped commission, for sales positions
- A comprehensive employer-funded benefits package starting from day one of employment, that includes life insurance, health and dental and a generous health account
- Flexible work arrangements and an annual allotment of personal health days.
- Four weeks annual vacation from hire date
- A defined contribution pension plan with generous employer matching
- Top up programs for parental leave and compassionate leave
- Employer-sponsored wellness and recognition programs
- A cash employee referral program
To learn more about working at Empire Life, visit https://www.empire.ca/workatempire.
