Manager, Investment Finance
Department: Finance and Facilities
Type: Permanent
Location: Toronto (Hybrid)
Posting Date: August 12th, 2025
At OPTrust, paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow is our mission and business.
When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust – in Toronto, London and Sydney – makes a meaningful impact. Our culture is driven by team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone. We work in a fast-paced environment, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community.
What OPTrust offers you
- Unique culture rooted in our core values – collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence and continuous improvement.
- A purpose-driven environment where we all work towards the common goal of paying pensions today and preserving pensions for tomorrow.
- Comprehensive benefits focused on your health and wellness, including dental, vision and extended health benefits, as well as membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan.
- A flexible, hybrid work model.
- A dedicated inclusion, diversity and equity strategy with meaningful opportunities to participate, including our employee-led resource groups.
- Extensive professional development opportunities and learning initiatives including access to LinkedIn Learning, guest speakers, tuition reimbursement, professional association memberships, leadership development programs, a mentorship program, monthly professional development time and more.
- A competitive vacation package with additional work-life balance days.
About the role
The Finance and Facilities Division is led by the Chief Financial Officer and includes accounting, operational, tax, and facilities functions and roles supporting OPTrust investment and pension activities.
Reporting to the Director, Investment Finance, this role leads and manages the delivery of high-quality investment accounting, valuations & pricing and financial reporting services. The manager is tasked with oversight of the accounting and disclosure reporting requirements, including the valuation and pricing of the public markets’ portfolio, ensuring control processes highlight any financial anomalies or trends and proactively addressing any issues that arise. This role is responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of all financial information and reporting along with being the key liaison for issue resolution across internal and external stakeholders. Responsibilities include establishing and maintaining procedures along with recommending enhancements to processes to support continuous improvement. This role is tasked with ensuring adequate coverage and contingency planning for systems access and essential team functions in the event of unforeseen disruptions.
What you’ll do
Financial Reporting
- Ensure investment assets and liabilities, along with related expenses, are completely and accurately recorded, valued and reported in accordance with IFRS/GAAP and OPTrust’s accounting policies, utilizing efficient and effective processes.
- Oversee the general ledger for investment-related activities, ensuring completeness, accuracy and timeliness of entries and safeguarding of assets.
- Manage the valuation and pricing Ensuring of investments, ensuring alignment with established policies and guidelines, and a sound understanding of the custodian’s pricing hierarchy and methodologies.
- Lead the research, development and preparation of internal and external investment-related financial reports, including notes to the annual financial statements and subsidiary reporting.
- Coordinate the quarterly valuation/appraisal process, ensuring external and internal appraisals are planned and executed in an efficient and timely manner, while ensuring adherence to the OPTrust’s Valuation Policy.
- Monitor emerging accounting issues and lead the development of internal guidelines, practices and disclosures for to ensure timely adoption and compliance.
Fund Administration
- Provide subject matter expertise to support the monitoring and control of OPTrust’s investment portfolio, including assessing the impact of new investment products and evolving accounting, regulatory, and tax requirements.
- Maintain and enhance operational processes to support financial management of external managers and internal’ investment portfolios, including coordination of class actions, and ensuring pricing and valuations of public market investments is consistent with policy.
- Coordinate requests from the Investment Division and contribute to the development of infrastructures to support new investment products.
- Support deal teams in conducting due diligence for new investments, reviewing draft agreements and ensuring reporting requirements of OPTrust are met.
- Onboard new managers and investments, fostering strong working relationships to ensure accurate and timely investment reporting.
- Support regulatory and tax compliance for investment legal entities, including administrative practices for commodity taxes (HST, GST, QST), and regulatory filings (e.g. Investment Information Summary, Statistics Canada).
Audits
- Lead the annual external audit for the investment’s portfolio, ensuring efficiency, accuracy and timely completion.
- Develop and maintain investment reporting processes that support management and the Audit Committee in fulfilling fiduciary responsibilities and meeting external disclosure requirements.
Continuous Improvement
- Establish and maintain a structured plan and cadence for continuous improvement of operational procedures, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
- Document new procedures and update existing ones to reflect evolving practices and standards.
- Research and assess impact of new accounting pronouncements, implementing necessary changes to ensure proper segregation of duties and maintenance of internal controls
- Support the administration and ongoing enhancement of the operational risk & compliance management framework for the Investment Finance Group.
- Identify opportunities to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into Investment Finance processes to improve data accuracy, automate routine tasks, and enhance decision-making capabilities.
Custodial
- Manage the custodian relationship, ensuring accurate valuation and pricing of investment assets and proactively addressing financial anomalies or trends.
- Collaborate with the Investment Division, Custodian, and investment managers to maintain the integrity of daily investment position records.
- Review and analyze monthly investment results from the custodian to ensure consistency with internal financial reporting and investment understanding.
Coordination and Communication
- Serve as a key liaison between the Investment Finance Team and other internal and external stakeholders and foster strong working relationships across departments to support seamless coordination and information flow.
Leadership
- Lead, coach and, mentor team to achieve departmental priorities and to organizational goals.
- Oversee team development, including goal setting, career development, performance evaluations, and ongoing feedback.
- Promote a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement across teams.
Standard Requirement
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Ensure clear understanding and adherence of all OPTrust’s policies, procedures, guidelines as well as living our values and fostering an inclusive culture.
- Build, engage and retain a diverse, high-performing team and foster an inclusive culture where team members are empowered to do great work on behalf of our members. Is familiar and ensures compliance with applicable employment legislation guidelines and the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for managing a workforce.
- Also ensures employees’ adherence to current and future employment policies, procedures and compliance guidelines and takes necessary steps to mitigate operational risks.
What you bring
- University Degree in commerce, business, accounting, or other equivalent discipline
- Completion of Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) or comparable financial designation
- Attainment or enrolment in the Accredited Appraiser Canadian Institute (AACI) program and/or the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program or equivalent
- 8 years of relevant experience in investment accounting and specific work experience with financial investments reporting with in-depth financial accounting knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) as it relates to pension plan and / or financial services industry
- Minimum 5 years people management experience, to lead, manage and develop professional team
- Experience with financial computer systems, project planning and implementation of systems and related enhancements to enhance efficiencies and processes
- Proficient with MS suite (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
- Proficient and experience with accounting systems (ie. EagleStar, Oracle, Yardi, Workday)
- Knowledge of investment-related pension legislation, and regulatory requirements of Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO), Income Tax Act, (ITA) and various investment regulatory authorities
- Extensive knowledge of investment products including the investment life cycle of capital market products, hedge funds, private equity, and derivatives, along with experience with back-office operations
- Strong ability to multitask, organizational and exceptional attention to detail
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Innovative thinker with the ability to negotiate, influence and challenge, with the ability to develop, document and implement policies and controls
- Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment and / or independently
- Strong leadership skills and experience in leading/managing teams
- Experience with investment accounting practices, financial and management reporting, operations, and audit practices
- Experience with investment accounting and custodial systems experience with identifying and implementing continued process improvements
- Exemplify OPTrust’s values: collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence, and continuous improvement
Please submit your application via Workday by August 26, 2025.
Serving a membership as diverse as ours and investing in a global market means cultivating an environment that embraces inclusion, diversity, and equity in everything we do. OPTrust is an organization engaged in building on our unique and diverse strengths. We know a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and perspectives are critical to achieving our shared goals.
If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please send a message to
careers@optrust.com
, or discuss your needs with the Talent Acquisition Consultant during the telephone screening. We will do our best to work with you and provide appropriate accommodation.
As an organization we’re seeking ways to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action 92. We are working with the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business to build bridges with Indigenous communities and partners, and we have created an employee-led Reconciliation Working Group that will work with Indigenous experts to identify a path to reconciliation for our organization.
We thank all interested applicants, however only those under consideration will be contacted.