About the Role
This role supports the financial management, reporting, and compliance of SLC’s Management Equity Plan (MEP). It is highly visible and plays a critical part in ensuring accurate financial reporting, compliance, and stakeholder communication across SLC’s legal entities and ownership structures. This role is initially structured as a 12-month contract.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal business partners and external vendors to establish and optimize finance systems and processes for MEP administration.
- Design, develop, and implement an integrated MEP administration tool in partnership with HR and external vendors.
- Assess and manage accounting implications of MEP with internal stakeholders and external advisors.
- Design and deliver optimized processes for quarterly MEP reporting and participant wire execution with Finance and technology teams.
- Develop and document repeatable processes for MEP operationalization with cross-functional teams.
- Establish and maintain robust governance and financial controls.
- Manage the financial aspects of MEP, including fair value and distribution calculations.
- Design executive-ready presentations articulating findings and strategic recommendations.
- Optimize MEP operationalization using business analysis and process optimization skillsets.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in finance or tax roles, ideally within the asset management or financial services sector.
- CPA or equivalent designation strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into simple terms and actionable insights.
- Experience with financial reporting and compliance.
- Experience with system implementation and process design.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and develop a course of action.
- Proven ability to manage external vendors and cross-functional teams.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Successful candidates will be required to declare personal investment accounts and securities investments as well as seek preclearance on future transactions including those of household members.
Skills
- Financial management
- Financial reporting
- Compliance
- Stakeholder communication
- System implementation
- Process design
- Business analysis
- Process optimization
- Fair value calculation
- Distribution calculation
- Presentation design
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Contract
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- CPA or equivalent designation strongly preferred
Salary/Compensations
- CA$80,000 - CA$128,000
- US$80,000 - US$128,000
Benefits
- Generous vacation and sick time
- Market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top-up program
- Partially-paid sabbatical program
- Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match
- Wellness programs (mental, physical, financial)
About the Company
- SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative and diversified investment solutions to institutional investors.
- We have a growing institutional client base of more than 1400 organizations.
- We have over CA$422/US$304 billion in assets under management (AUM).
- As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we benefit from the stability and strength of that relationship.
- We are a performance-driven organization with a deliberate focus on fostering a development-focused, inclusive culture revolving around our Core Values: client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed, and having an owner’s mindset.
- We offer a rewarding work environment filled with opportunity for growth where employees are empowered to meet challenges.
- We offer a mix of in-office and virtual work where employees are empowered to do their best.
- Generally, employees are expected to work three or more days in-office each week with flexibility depending on business, client, and team needs.
- SLC Management is a regulated business with financial reporting and trading preclearance requirements for all employees.
- We are committed to pay transparency and equity.
- We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel they belong, are supported, and empowered to thrive.
- We are dedicated to building teams with varied experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.
- We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
- We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, and interview scheduling.
- We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations.
- Award winning workplace culture - Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the U.S., “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor, Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work, “Best Places to Work in Money Management” by Pension & Investments.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel they belong, are supported and empowered to thrive.
- We are dedicated to building teams with varied experiences, backgrounds perspectives and ideas that benefit our colleagues, clients, and the communities where we operate.
- We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
- We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations.
- Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.
