Intermediate Investment Monitoring & Reporting Analyst

THE EMPIRE LIFE INS. CO•Toronto, ON

34d•CA$79,200 - CA$126,500•Hybrid

About The Position

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. This role offers an opportunity to work in a supportive environment that values work-life balance, impactful projects, excellent customer service, and encourages creative and innovative thinking. The analyst will be responsible for developing and maintaining monitoring frameworks, ensuring regulatory adherence, programming and testing investment monitoring rules, supporting stakeholders with analytical insights, preparing regulatory filings and reports, and collaborating with third-party service providers.

Requirements

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.
Minimum of 2 years of relevant investment experience at a financial institution.
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.
Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new systems and team structures, with a focus on becoming a super user for critical applications.
A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
English language proficiency is required for communicating with customers, advisors, or employees across Canada.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of the EZE OMS and SS&C Technologies Portia would be an asset.
Experience working in an investment compliance function or team with related responsibilities is a differentiating asset.
Prior experience in programming and testing investment compliance rules and/or investment-related reports within financial systems is highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

Participate in establishing and maintaining comprehensive procedural documentation, job aids, and internal control documentation to ensure current and accurate investment monitoring and reporting processes.
Assist in the ongoing maintenance of an inventory of relevant investment policy limits as well as measuring against regulatory and investment guideline limits.
Program, maintain, and annually test 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.
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.
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.
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.
Collaborate with third party service providers and vendors as relevant and assigned.
Participate in developing and maintaining business continuity plans for Investment Monitoring and Reporting activities.
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.
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.

Benefits

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.
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