Senior Business Systems Consultant, Investment Risk

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 Senior Business Systems Consultant with Investment Risk experience to join our team!

As a senior member of our IT Investment Applications team, the Senior Business Systems Consultant will work as a trusted business partner with leaders in Investment Risk as they execute strategies to increase automation and implement technologies to enhance the risk management capabilities of IMCO. 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 incumbent should also have an understanding of the Investment Risk business drivers to enable more effective recommendations and advice on solutions and technology. 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 business partner and technical advisor to support risk management team
• Collaborate with various IT vertical leads and teams to refine and develop business and technical requirements.
• Lead investment risk applications implementations, operational enhancements, and systems upgrades
• Lead planning and discussions with stakeholders to ensure full understanding of organizational objectives, priorities, and requirements
• 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 supports investment strategies and corporate objectives
• Oversee and lead detail process mapping and document findings as related to investment risk and operations
• Oversee and contribute to the improvement of risk management capabilities through systems and operational process enhancements
• Contribute to business cases for systems implementations, and participate in RFP and due diligence processes
• Manage enhancements of data access and integration with front office total portfolio analytics in alignment with IMCO's growth strategies
• Engage technology architects and other IT partners to determine dependency and impact to the overall investment systems architecture
• Lead planning and enrichment of risk analytics and data reporting capabilities
• Lead daily stand-ups, story walkthroughs, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other delivery ceremonies for the POD to assist team members in grooming business and technical requirements.
• Conduct, design, and implement solutions to support investment data analytics and investment management functions
• Design data models and feeds, from source to end user applications, and to maintain scalable investment risk data management process and systems
• Manage, design, and execute the testing process to ensure visibility, traceability, and execution to deliver high quality solutions
• Investigate root causes when issues arise, recommend changes, oversee execution, and maintain accurate documentation
• Provide mentorship and coaching to junior members of team
• Disseminate knowledge and information with other staff 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 improving service levels with all business users
• Understand operational risk and systems performance management in all initiatives
• Represent IT team to plan and execute Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning

What do you need to succeed:

• 10+ years' experience in developing and supporting technology applications in the asset management or investment industry with 8 years in a business systems analysis or equivalent role
• 2 years' experience in a leadership role supporting software delivery projects
• 5 years' experience supporting technology in an investment risk environment
• Undergraduate degree in Business, Computer science, Engineering, or a relevant discipline
• Direct working experience to support portfolio risk management functions across different asset classes and instrument types
• Solid understanding of trading lifecycle, investment workflow and operational processing requirements
• Systems implementation experience of investment risk and analytics applications
• Hands-on experience in data management, data governance, MDM solutions and aggregation from multiple sources and investment reporting
• Strong practical knowledge and experience of investment data flow, aggregation, and visualization
• Proven track record enhancing data and analytics capabilities in other investment organizations.
• Proficiency with implementing scalable reporting platforms, BI and reporting tools
• Prior working experience with risk data integration with front office analytics
• Familiar with investment policy statement that governs investment approaches and strategies for clients
• Demonstrated ability to play multiple hands-on roles such as project management, requirement analysis, solution design and visioning, planning, testing, and solutions implementation
• Practical experience with systems and data integration with book of record applications and custody platforms
• Knowledge of application development life cycles 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, FRM, CBAP, PMI-ACP, CSC, Lean and/or Six Sigma, or PMP designation is preferred
• Experience with Eagle (Data Management, Performance and Accounting Solutions), Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Platform

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.