Analyst, Treasury Operations - 12-month contract
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is seeking an Analyst for their Treasury Operations team within Finance Operations. The role involves overseeing bank accounts, ensuring timely reporting of investment cash, executing enterprise wires/payments, and maintaining internal controls.
Responsibilities
- Complete critical priorities for the day
- Co-ordinate work to meet deadlines
- Identify, analyze, respond to and resolve issues and problems
- Determine and carry out appropriate solutions
- Become a Knowledgeable User of department systems and processes
- Share knowledge with other team members
- Provide daily production support for processes and/or order management systems
- Provide assistance to others as needed
- Back up team members during absences
- Ensure up to date documentation
- Support payment processing by reviewing and preparing wire instruction templates
- Reconcile bank statements against internal applications to ensure accuracy
- Ensure internal control standards are being met
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of information
- Check and reconcile information to ensure accuracy
- Follow up on and resolve discrepancies
- Ensure up to date documentation
- Carry out key tasks of the projects
- Positively contribute to the delivery of project and change management initiatives
- Liaise with other teams (IT, Investments etc) as needed projects
- Direct activities and tasks related to system upgrades, new releases, and bug fixes
- Assist in development/testing/implementation of new processes/systems
- Collaborate on recommendations for process changes and improvements
- Ensure up to date documentation
- Generate standard reports
- Analyze requests for non-standard reports
- Design and deliver reports
- Provide information and services to internal and external clients
- Respond to inquiries and requests from internal and external clients
- Deal with internal and external clients in a professional and timely manner
- Collaborates with Technology, Investments, service providers, consultants and/or vendors in the delivery of solutions
- Manage relationships to ensure high quality service by suppliers
- Request/provide information as needed to established suppliers
- Represent OTPP in a professional manner
- Maximize the use of technology in all work processes
- Provide constructive ideas relative to Plan's operations
- Maintain knowledge of issues affecting Plan's operations
- Provide input and share responsibility with IF senior management as required
- Other duties as requested
Skills
- Relevant university degree (such as Accounting, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science) or equivalent relevant experience with Investment Finance processes
- Requires an individual with solid experience in Investment Finance processes (1 year or more)
- Proven Experience in a Cash Operations Environment
- Strong working knowledge of cash tie-out/reconciliation processes, cash forecasting, wire processing and settlements
- Familiar with SWIFT payment formats (MT103, MT202, etc.)
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to think through problems, assess a variety of factors and recommend a solution
- Excellent quantitative and computer skills (Excel and Access), including an understanding of database concepts
- Good background skills and knowledge of accounting and reconciliation processes
- Must be able to work to deadlines, adapt to a rapidly changing environment and sustain high productivity levels
- Must be extremely detail oriented, organized and thorough
- Self starter, confident, innovative, team player
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Must be able to effectively deal with internal and external clients and suppliers
- Ability to work with minimum supervision
Benefits
- Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
- A flexible work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
- Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year
- Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis
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