At IMCO, our talent is among the best! IMCO offers a uniquely stimulating and rewarding environment where you can help build and drive organizational transformation, all while seeking to challenge yourself, learn, and grow your career. We offer a culture of collaboration and passion, creating unwavering value for the clients we serve. Our vision is to be the partner of choice for Ontario’s public sector funds and build a high-performing, value-based Asset Management firm in the heart of downtown Toronto. If you are ready to drive best-in-class service, and join a collaborative, motivated, and fun team of professionals, we’re ready to offer you a great place to work with exciting opportunities for growth and development. If you want to use your expertise to drive strategic business outcomes, then we want you at IMCO! IMCO is looking for a highly motivated Lead Business Systems Consultant, IT Investment Applications to join our team! As a key member of our IT Investment Applications team, the Lead Business Systems Consultant will work as trusted partner with our business stakeholders in Investment Management (Front Office). This role is responsible for understanding organizational objectives, conducting analysis, eliciting business, and systems requirements, designing specifications, facilitating testing, implementing solutions, and supporting production operations. The overall responsibility of the position is to deliver value-added solutions while ensuring adherence to IMCO’s procedures and supportability of all investment applications. As a Member of Our Team, You Will be Responsible For: Act as primary liaison and technical advisor to investment management teams across all asset classes Lead planning and direct analysis discussion with business stakeholders to ensure full understanding of organizational objectives and priorities Provide guidance and carry-out business analysis, and translate into technical specifications and solutions Partner with all stakeholders, including investment management, development, infrastructure, and third-party vendors, to develop solutions to support investment strategies and corporate objectives Oversee and lead detail process mapping, and document findings as related to investment operations Contribute to business cases for systems implementations, and participate in RFP and due diligence processes Manage enhancements of investment operations and workflows including downstream processing and investment reporting Lead implementation of new investment systems solutions to support all front office functions, including all public markets asset classes, total portfolio management and public markets alternatives Engage technology architects and other IT partners to determine dependency and impact to the overall investment systems architecture Direct design and build better access to data for total portfolio analytics and management capabilities Support portfolio managers, traders and analysts on trade origination, generation, and execution as part of investment workflow Lead investment applications implementations, enhancements, and systems upgrades Manage, design and execute the testing process to ensure visibility, traceability, and effective execution to deliver high quality solutions Investigate root causes when issues arise, recommend changes, oversee implementation, and maintain accurate documentation Provide mentorship and coaching to junior members of the team Disseminate knowledge and information with other team members in collaborative manner Conduct risk-benefits analysis in clear technical and non-technical language Think creatively to design solutions with a forward-thinking approach to best accommodate future opportunities in IMCO’s growing environment Ensure adherence to IMCO’s processes and procedures, and the overall supportability of all solutions with proper documentation and training Strive to improve environment stability by working with others to set up and maintain production configurations Continuously elevate service levels with all business users Monitor operational risk and systems performance management in all initiatives Represent IT team to plan and execute DR/BCP What Do You Need To Succeed? Direct working experience in front office operations across different asset classes and teams Prior leadership role in other investment IT organization Comprehensive knowledge of internal and external investment workflows and trading lifecycle Multiple implementation experience of public markets investment systems such as portfolio management and analytical systems, order management systems, and research platforms, including total portfolio view and analytics by asset class and strategy Experience to support passive hedging, dynamic FX, active return products, Repos and OTC instruments Familiar with pre- and post-trade compliance as part of trade workflow Practical knowledge of total portfolio management, active asset allocations and liquidity management Strong experience in data aggregation from multiple sources and investment reporting Demonstrated ability to play multiple hands-on roles such as project management, requirement analysis, solution design and visioning, planning, testing, and solutions implementation Experience with systems and data integration with book of record applications and custody platforms Undergraduate degree in business administration, finance, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline with a minimum of ten years of experience in the asset management or investment industry Knowledge of systems development lifecycles including planning, requirement, analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and post-implementation activities in agile and waterfall approaches Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate comfortably with both business and technical teams Domain knowledge in IT service management such as incident management, change management, configuration management and operations management Prior involvement with third-party vendors, internal and external operational audits CFA, CBAP, PMI-PBA, CSC, Lean and/or Six Sigma, or PMP designation is preferred Experience with Bloomberg trading platforms, Managed Account Platforms, Eagle (Data Management, Performance and Accounting Solutions), MSCI BarraOne, Omega Point, RiskMetrics, RiskManager, Dynamo, FINCAD, MATLAB, SQL, Python, Databricks and Snowflake What IMCO Can Offer You: We thrive on the challenge to be our best, to deliver an unparalleled employee experience and to work as one team to continuously improve the management of broader public-sector investment funds. In addition to offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package, we pride ourselves on helping you reach your potential, making a difference in our communities, and achieving success that is mutual. We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Our hybrid work model offers flexibility and provides our employees with the opportunity to lead a well-balanced life. Our Corporation’s offices located at 16 York Street, Suite 2400, Toronto, ON M5J 0E6 provide a welcoming space for employees to gather, work collaboratively, and grow together. IMCO is committed to providing accommodation for people with disabilities in its recruitment process. Please advise IMCO if you require an accommodation and we will work with you to meet your needs. Candidates being considered for this position will be required to submit to a background screening. The Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) is Ontario’s professional asset manager, investing on behalf of our public sector clients so they can care for beneficiaries and secure retirement futures. With approximately $86 billion in assets under management, we are one of the largest institutional investment managers in Canada and around the globe. Our mandate is to provide broader public sector clients with exceptional investment management services, including best-in-class advice around portfolio construction, efficient access to a diverse range of asset classes and superior reporting on risks and returns. Our vision is to rank among the world’s leading public-sector asset managers. We will achieve this through an unwavering focus on creating client value. That means ensuring that we deliver the returns required for our clients to meet their long-term financial obligations.
