Job Title: Accounting Clerk

Location: Toronto, ON (1 day/week onsite)

Duration: 3 months

Contract Type: T4

Pay Rate: $21.38/Hour

Working hours: 7am-3pm EST

Role Mandate:

• Applies accounting and control frameworks to financial data, source documents and records for transactions being reconciled in accordance with Bank and industry standards.

• Ensures the correctness, completeness and overall integrity of financial and operational data, for internal and external books of record.

• Performs analysis to resolve internal and external inquiries, requests and issues, for an assigned portfolio ranging from routine transactions to complex portfolio management.

Role Responsibilities:

• Provides advice to internal business partners and peers to support the completion of a reconciliations within established procedures.

• Perform manual matching via Reconciliation Platform (i.e. IMATCH)

• Monitors production logs and schedules to ensure key controls are followed and exceptions are actively pursued; escalates to the manager as appropriate.

• Monitors service delivery performance, production processes and quality, providing reports to the manager for the purpose of optimizing operational effectiveness.

• Delivers exceptional customer service to build trust through responsive, accurate, consistent, knowledgeable and available services and support.

• Supports change management of varying scope and type; tasks typically focused on execution and sustainment activities.

• Processes timely and accurate transactions, audit/reconciliation transactions and resolves discrepancies according to established standards and guidelines.

• Records and verifies data for fulfillment and/or further processing.

• Ensures adherence to all aspects of First Principles, Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, Corporate policies, procedures and applicable regulatory requirements.

• Reviews transactions and requests for compliance with regulatory and Bank requirements.

• Communicates with internal partners and external customers to respond to inquiries according to guidelines; Follows-up with business units to ensure issues are resolved.

• Supports the testing and implementation of projects and onboarding of new/revised products, services or processes.

Must Have Skills:

• 1 – 2 years of relevant experience

• Postsecondary degree

• Knowledge of standard desktop applications used by the business unit

• Outlook, Excel, Adobe

• Prioritization skills. Good.

• Organizational skills - Good.

• Customer service skills. - Good.

• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

• Basic specialized knowledge.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Financial industry experience
• Capital markets experience
• Degree in related field (accounting/finance/etc)