Analyst, Investment Operations

Analyst, Investment Operations (12-Month Contract)

RBC north tower, 16 York St, Toronto, ON M5J 0E6, Canada

Posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 4:00 AM

UPP is the first pension plan of its kind in Ontario's university sector, proudly serving over 46,000 members across six universities and nineteen sector organizations. Our purpose is to bring greater retirement peace of mind to the university sector by investing with integrity and serving members with care. As a sector-wide plan designed for growth, our doors are open to all Ontario universities.

UPP is recognized as one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for 2026. Together, we're a team of progressive thinkers and agile doers operating within a fast-paced culture of collaboration and respect. We believe in bringing smart and capable people together to create, solve, and grow with a clear shared vision and values of integrity, inclusivity, ingenuity, and impact.

Our culture is intentionally welcoming and purposefully rooted in equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation (EDI&R). We believe diverse teams, perspectives, and lived experiences contribute to better decisions and a better workplace.

As a pension plan, UPP approaches investing through a long-term lens to generate and safeguard value. Our commitment to investing responsibly accounts for material risks that impact our investment portfolio to generate sufficient risk-adjusted returns to meet the pension needs of our members.

Join us in building a bright future for our members, our organization, and each other.

This is a fantastic 12-month contract opportunity for an experienced analyst to join a team of high performing professionals to make a great impact. Reporting directly to the Manager/Associate Director, Investment Operations, the Analyst, Investment Operations will be responsible for investment accounting and reporting, investment operations, and investment compliance within the public and/or private markets portfolio. This individual will ensure investment related data at the Custodian and other investment market data necessary for supporting the reporting and analytics are accurate, complete, and delivered on a timely manner throughout the organization.

The Analyst will be required to assist in developing key processes and controls for the Investments Finance function and subsequently scale the activities as the organization grows. This role requires collaboration with other members within UPP’s Investment teams and the individual will be expected to establish close working relationships with key stakeholders.

This role is based in downtown Toronto under a hybrid work policy, allowing employees the flexibility to work remotely and in-office (approximately two days per week in-office).

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

The Analyst, Investment Operations will be responsible for a variety of duties including but not limited to the following:

• Manage, consolidate, and review the critical data elements for the portfolio reporting process and support the portfolio analysis and asset reporting activities
• Create and prepare monthly investment continuity schedule for investment portfolios
• Conduct ad-hoc reporting and analysis to support key investment finance decisions
• Develop and implement solutions to facilitate ongoing internal and external reporting effectively
• Support in the preparation of monthly summaries of capital calls and distributions activities, as necessary

• Prepare working papers to review reconciliations of investment transactions and Net Asset Value
• Perform analysis through reconciliations and ongoing oversight of custody and accounting
• Manage end-to-end trade matching and settlement processes for internal trades, investigating and resolving discrepancies to support accurate and timely settlement.
• Build and prepare working papers to properly track investment activities in various investment portfolios
• Develop and prepare templates to reconcile manager holdings and market value to custodian records and document/investigate discrepancies
• Prepare variance analysis in…