Senior Manager, Capital Markets Accounting

We're building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what's right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

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What You'll Be Doing

Aligned with the Finance guiding principles, the CIBC Capital Markets Accounting team provides strategic advice and financial support to the Capital Markets non-trading businesses.

As a Senior Manager, you will work with a team of professionals to prepare, review and analyze Capital Markets financial information to ensure quality and faithfulness of financial records for the Strategic and Principal Investment Portfolio.

You will be involved with quarterly valuation and month-end / quarter-end accounting and reporting processes to support downstream stakeholders such as Statutory Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, and Consolidation groups.

You will also work closely with business partners in Strategy & Corporate Development, Commercial Banking, Innovation Banking, CFO teams, and others to ensure the integrity and timeliness of the business units' financial reporting.

You will also address external requests from funds and ensuring the appropriate actions are taken and reflected in the accounting system.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You'll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you'll spend 1-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote.

How You'll Succeed

• Controllership - You ensure that complete and accurate financial and management accounting information, and supplemental reporting for non-trading portfolios within CIBC Capital Markets.
• Relationship management - You have strong teamwork, partnership and relationship building skills to act in a collaborative manner with various business partners and stakeholders across the bank.
• Communication - You have experience and are comfortable working with high-level executives in an advisory and reporting capacity and / or you have been in a client-facing role.
• Consulting - You provide oversight and advisory over new and ongoing financial reporting processes through understanding the end-to-end and continuously enhancing, automating and standardizing processes.
• Leadership skills - You support the Management Team to improve employee engagement, business partner satisfaction and shareholder value.
• Talent management - You will provide guidance, training and development to analysts and contribute to their achievement of departmental goals and objectives.

Who You Are

• Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork and accountability.
• You embrace and advocate for change. You continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work in order to deliver your best.
• You give meaning to data. You enjoy investigating complex problems and making sense of information. You're confident in your ability to communicate detailed information in an impactful way.
• You look beyond the moment. You make decisions and take actions that will make a difference today and tomorrow. You proactively seek new opportunities to define what's possible.
• You're a certified professional. You have current accreditation and good standing in CPA.
• You can demonstrate experience and sufficient understanding of concepts and processes for the accounting of complex and / or sensitive information, including accounting for investments in limited partnerships, private equity funds, as well as holdings in repos and reverse repos, and vanilla and non-standard derivative products.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential.

We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.
• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.
• We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.
• Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

What you need to know

CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience.

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• You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.
• We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills tests (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency, MS Office).

Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

Job Location

Toronto-81 Bay, 28th Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Accounting, Communication, Detail-Oriented, Finance, Financial Analysis and Reporting, Investments, Management Reporting, Microsoft Excel, Private Equity Funds