Senior Data and Performance Analyst - Term position

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Title: Senior Data and Performance Analyst - Term position Requisition ID: 261007

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

As a Senior Data and Performance Analyst, you will support Canadian Wealth Management Operations by ensuring the integrity of data quality, pricing, security classification, and CRM2/TCR fee and performance reporting for ScotiaMcLeod and iTRADE. This role is responsible for ensuring accurate book cost, fee, and tax reporting, while delivering compliant and accurate client statements.

This is a term position.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

Review mutual fund and other investment prices on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis by analyzing multiple approved pricing sources, following established pricing hierarchies, and overriding prices in internal systems as required to ensure accuracy, regulatory compliance, and accurate month end client statement reporting

Investigate and resolve pricing discrepancies, including stale, threshold, and null prices, in collaboration with Operations, business partners, and external data vendors to ensure consistent and accurate security valuation across systems

Review and classify new securities daily using multiple internal and external reference sources to ensure accurate and timely security classification within internal wealth systems and client statements

Review daily and monthly CRM2 and TCR fee reports, and identify missing or incorrect fee entries, and upload required data into the Fee BIOS system to support accurate and compliant annual client fee disclosure

Respond to ad hoc book cost requests and investigate discrepancies across systems (including Broadridge and MPower)

Process required adjustments for Scotia Trust, PIC, and MD Financial, ensuring service level agreements are met

Ensure all book cost adjustments processed after year end are reported to the Tax Department & support the generation and delivery of amended T5008 slips to clients, as required

Provide coverage for other desks within the team when team members are away to support continuity of operations

Adjust responsibilities and take on additional tasks as required to meet evolving business needs

Accurately classify financial securities

Determine the correct price to use for end of month statements from approved sources

Resolve inconsistencies in portfolio and security level rate of returns

Ensure that fee reporting is in compliance with CRM2

Provide accurate reporting to senior management, portfolio managers and other interested parties

Perform various adhoc requests related to prices, fees, and portfolio performance and address or elevate any issues

Ensure the integrity of year end CRM2 statements

Provide and support any ad-hoc request issues relating to book cost, native cost, and tax cost to ensure our client’s performance reporting, statement and tax reporting are accurate

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? – We’d love to work with you if you have:

A University Degree or College Diploma or equivalent

Canadian Securities Course (CSC) is an asset

3-5 years’ experience researching and evaluating securities using information from exchanges, pricing vendors and other financial sources

Strong working knowledge of key Wealth Operations systems, including Score, Broadridge, PureFacts, CR, Excel, AS400, Fundserv, and WebPost

Solid investment industry experience within Wealth Operations, with the ability to build effective working relationships across business lines

Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with sound judgment to resolve complex issues while minimizing risk to the firm and advisors

Subject matter knowledge of financial industry regulations, including CRM2 and TCR requirements.

A proven ability to work under pressure, manage competing priorities, and meet service level commitments in a high volume environment

Experience working with and acting on pricing reports, including stale, threshold, and null reports as well as validating price discrepancies for various financial assets

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an asset

A solid understanding of financial instruments and asset classes including fixed income, equities, derivatives, corporate actions, terms & conditions, reference data and security identifiers including cross-referencing and linking of Issuers and Issues

Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel/Access

A focus on client service

Solid organizational skills and attention to detail

The ability to work effectively and collaboratively within a team or independently

The capacity to assess, develop and monitor complex processes

An ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Strong problem-solving and research skills

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

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