Senior Analyst, Portfolio Operations

Overview

The opportunity Portfolio Operations (POPS) supports Ontario Teachers' global public investment portfolios across equities, fixed income, derivatives, structured products and syndicated loans.

The team is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of investment and accounting data, market event election and processing, pricing and portfolio P&L, and operational controls that support investment decision-making, financial reporting, and risk management.

The Senior Analyst will play a key role in supporting day-to-day operations, investigating complex issues, managing critical controls, and driving process enhancements across a broad range of public market products. The role requires strong analytical capabilities, attention to detail, intellectual curiosity, and a passion for investing and financial markets.

Internal stakeholders:
Portfolio Managers, Global Trading, Trade Management, Treasury Operations, Collateral & Liquidity Operations, Risk & Performance Analytics, Financial Reporting, Data Management, Legal, Compliance and Tax teams.

External stakeholders: custodians, counter parties, pricing vendors, technology providers, and professional advisors.

• Execute daily operational activities supporting publicly traded portfolios (30%). Support investment accounting, reconciliation, and operational processes across equities, fixed income, derivatives, structured products, and syndicated loans. Monitor data quality to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Investigate and resolve operational exceptions, reconciliation breaks, and data discrepancies. Identify, analyze, and resolve complex issues impacting portfolio operations. Document and share knowledge across the team.
• Process market events and asset servicing activities (20%). Capture, validate, and process corporate actions, income events, voluntary elections, derivative lifecycle events, and other market-related activities. Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate processing and monitor impacts on positions, valuations, accounting, and reporting.
• Support portfolio valuations, pricing oversight and P&L analysis (20%). Perform valuation oversight activities, monitor pricing from vendors, counter parties, and internal models, and investigate pricing exceptions and material portfolio P&L movements. Partner with investment teams and valuation stakeholders to resolve pricing matters and contribute to governance and control processes.
• Execute key operational and financial controls (15%). Perform positional, transaction, accounting, and valuation reconciliations, ensuring completeness and accuracy of data for financial reporting and portfolio management. Investigate, escalates, and resolve control exceptions.
• Drive process improvement and innovation initiatives (10%). Strengthen controls, improve scalability, enhance operational efficiency, contribute to automation, reporting, and data‑driven solutions using technology and AI-enabled tools, and participate in strategic initiatives for new products, markets, and operating models.
• Support stakeholder and vendor relationships (5%). Partner with internal clients and external service providers. Collaborate with custodians, counter parties, pricing vendors, and technology vendors to resolve issues, support operational excellence, and represent OTPP professionally.

• University degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related discipline.
• 3-5 years of experience supporting public market investment operations, investment accounting, valuation, reconciliation, or asset servicing activities.
• Strong understanding of publicly traded investment products including equities, fixed income, derivatives, structured products and/or syndicated loans.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to investigate complex issues or determine root causes.
• Experience with accounting data, reconciliations, valuations, and portfolio P&L.
• Advanced Excel skills and data analysis tools. Experience with Python, SQL, Power BI or similar technologies.
• Experience working in systems such as Simcorp, Trioptima,…