External auditor Jobs in Markham, ON

About the Opportunity

• Provide day-to-day investment accounting support across multiple business units and legal entities operating under different accounting and reporting requirements.
• Monitor investment activity to ensure transactions are recorded accurately, completely, and on a timely basis.
• Investigate and follow up on missing, incorrect, failed, or outstanding investment transactions with the appropriate internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the accurate accounting and administration of investment purchases, sales, settlements, and other portfolio activity.
• Coordinate with internal teams, financial institutions, and external service providers to resolve transaction settlement, cash movement, and investment-related discrepancies.

Investment Events & Portfolio Administration

• Monitor and process investment-related events, including corporate actions, maturities, principal repayments, income receipts, and other portfolio activities.
• Maintain accurate investment and security reference data within the investment accounting system.
• Review recurring investment accounting reports, files, and system updates to ensure data accuracy and completeness.
• Support pricing and valuation activities during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reporting periods.

Reconciliations & Financial Reporting

• Perform investment reconciliations and investigate discrepancies between internal records and external statements.
• Reconcile investment balances, cash activity, receivables, payables, and other portfolio-related accounts.
• Support period-end custody and portfolio reconciliations.
• Prepare supporting schedules and documentation for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
• Ensure investment accounting records and supporting documentation are complete, accurate, and audit-ready.

Audit, Controls & Documentation

• Maintain organized documentation supporting investment accounting activities and internal control requirements.
• Coordinate the collection and maintenance of control reports and other documentation from external financial service providers.
• Provide supporting documentation and respond to internal and external audit requests.
• Assist with audit testing, sample requests, and inquiries related to investment transactions and balances.
• Identify and escalate potential process, control, or data issues as appropriate.

Collaboration & Process Improvement

• Work collaboratively with Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Investment Operations, and external service providers.
• Assist with process improvements, system enhancements, and initiatives designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of investment accounting activities.
• Support additional projects and responsibilities as required.

About You

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Commerce, Economics, or Accounting.
• 2+ years of investment operations or portfolio administration experience.
• Strong Excel skills (pivot Tables, vlookups)
• Knowledge of capital markets, securities, and trade settlement.
• Background in fund accounting can be an asset. Will likely have CSC, working towards CFA.

Pay Range
$70,000 - $80,000 per year

How to Apply
Click the “Apply Now” button and follow the instructions to submit your resume. Please know that we only accept documents in MS Word or Rich Text formats. When referencing this job, quote # 486091
This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Vaco/Highspring’s client. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.

EEO Notice

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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada: Based on Highspring’s discussions with its Client, Highspring’s understanding is that this position for employment is a current vacancy (either through Highspring as a contractor or with the client directly).

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.