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 escalate any issues
• Ensure the integrity of year end CRM2 statements 
• Provide and support any ad-hod 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 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our  Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.