About the Role
The Associate Director, Valuations is responsible for end-to-end valuation delivery and operational enablement across asset classes, with a focus on valuation platforms, vendor-provided pricing, execution stability, and issue resolution. This hands-on leadership role ensures accurate, timely, and consistent valuation outputs for Finance, Risk, and external clients while driving scalable processes and maintaining a strong control environment. The Director will collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners to resolve complex operational challenges and enable valuation teams to perform effectively at scale.
Responsibilities
- Oversee daily and month-end valuation delivery across asset classes, with accountability for accuracy, timeliness, and operational stability.
- Serve as a hands-on execution backstop for Asset Class Leads during periods of elevated risk, complexity, capacity constraint, or system instability.
- Review and challenge valuation outputs for high-risk, high-visibility, or complex items before release.
- Own valuation platforms, workflows, and vendor-pricing integrations supporting fixed income, exchange-traded products, and complex instruments.
- Lead the implementation, testing, and stabilization of new valuation capabilities, products, and system enhancements in partnership with Technology and external providers.
- Drive remediation of recurring system issues, pricing-feed failures, and process breakdowns affecting valuation delivery.
- Act as the primary escalation point for cross-asset, cross-system, and other complex valuation issues.
- Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of pricing challenges, stale or missing prices, and unexpected valuation movements.
- Design and oversee daily operational controls that proactively identify and mitigate valuation risk.
- Identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements that reduce manual effort and improve scalability.
- Manage and develop team members through execution support, mentoring, and technical guidance.
- Communicate valuation and operational issues clearly to senior management and other stakeholders.
- Partner with Valuation Governance, Finance, Risk, and Audit by providing operational analysis, audit support, and comprehensive documentation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in securities valuation, valuation operations, or a closely related financial-services role.
- Demonstrated experience owning processes, platforms, and operational delivery.
- Experience working with third-party valuation providers, valuation systems, and cross-functional business partners.
- Demonstrated ability to manage change, resolve complex operational issues, and deliver under tight deadlines.
- Leadership experience, including managing, mentoring, and providing technical guidance to team members.
Skills
- Strong knowledge of fixed income and third-party valuation vendor ecosystems.
- Experience with valuation and market-data platforms, including Aladdin/BlackRock, Bloomberg, and vendor pricing feeds.
- Advanced Excel and analytical tooling skills.
- Strong business judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Proven change-management skills and the ability to lead through complexity and tight deadlines.
- Self-motivated, execution-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong relationship-building, consensus-building, and influencing skills across Front Office, Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk, Governance, and Audit.
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Associate Director
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- 80,000 - 128,000
Benefits
- Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being – mental, physical and financial
- 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
About the Company
- SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative and diversified investment solutions to institutional investors.
- We are breaking new ground with a full spectrum of solutions for a growing institutional client base of more than 1400 organizations.
- Our history of organic and strategic growth reflects this commitment with over CA$422/US$304 billion in assets under management (AUM).
- As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we are aligned with one of the world’s leading financial services companies, and 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 of being client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed and having an owner’s mindset.
- As part of our team, you play a role in fulfilling our purpose and making a difference.
- We offer a rewarding work environment that is filled with opportunity for growth where you will be empowered to meet the challenges of a highly competitive landscape.
- Visit our website to learn more and for the most up to date AUM information.
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 may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.
- 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.
