Junior Trader

Vancity is looking for a talented individual with the desire to develop strong administrative, technical and trading skills, and acquire a solid understanding of pre-trade, in-trade and post-trade workflows to manage and grow our business while mitigating risk. With your natural abilities to learn new technologies, systems and processes, you will develop strong relationship building skills and be able to clearly communicate trading information and technical advice while working as part of the Trading and Operations team, in service of this organization and its members.

**About Vancity Investment Management**

Vancity Investment Management (VCIM) is a rapidly growing leader in Responsible Investing with $4 billion in assets under management. We offer retail and institutional clients an active, integrated investment process that utilizes shareholder engagement and incorporates Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) analysis and traditional financial analysis in the construction and management of investment portfolios.

**The Role**:Junior Trader (VCIM)

**The Team**:The Junior Trader (VCIM) will report to the Head of Trading and Operations

**About the workplace**

This is a permanent, full-time role will enjoy hybrid working arrangements which can be fulfilled primarily from the Vancity head office location and your Lower Mainland based home office. Periodically, you’ll be required to attend in-person activities or events.

**A typical day would involve**:

- Performing daily reconciliation across custodians and investigating and resolving trade breaks and outages to mitigate risk and ensure data integrity across technology and custody platforms
- Working with members of the Trading and Operations team to:

- Execute and allocate trades as directed by registrants
- Operate and maintain portfolio management systems, order management systems and associated technology platforms
- Conduct pre-trade activities and post-trade settlement cycle to mitigate risk and ensure accuracy of information, trade matching and allocation to brokers and custodians
- Investigate and resolve trade-related issues raised by member-facing teams
- Participating in projects and initiatives involving multi-disciplinary teams

**You Are**:

- **A fast learner **- You are able to learn new technologies, systems, workflows and processes efficiently independently and working as part of a team
- **A problem solver** - You diagnose challenges and issues and present innovative business solutions
- **An excellent communicator** - You use your written, spoken and interpersonal skills to act as a resource for the specialized area
- **A self-starter and organized planner** - You use your coordination skills to present the best approach to address analytical, reporting and business challenges as efficiently as possible

**You Have**:

- An Undergraduate Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field
- At least 1-2 years’ experience in the financial industry related to trading and finance technology
- Ability to learn new technology, systems and processes efficiently and develop working knowledge of the rules, regulations, procedures and policies governing this work
- Willingness to pursue pre-approved continuous learning opportunities such as the CSC (Canadian Securities Course), Conduct and Practices Handbook (CPH) and other relevant courses

**We offer**:

- Our vision is to **_redefine wealth_**. As a values-based financial co-operative, we are committed to transforming how banking is done by helping our members and local communities thrive financially, socially and environmentally with impact to make our world a better place.
- We are the largest private-sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada.
- Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs.
- New employees receive between three to four weeks of vacation allowance per calendar year, and the number of vacation days grows — to a maximum of six weeks per year — as their length of service increases. In addition, full-time, permanent staff may be able to purchase extra days of vacation through our flexible benefits package.
- In addition to the 10 statutory holidays in British Columbia, Vancity provides an additional three statutory holidays. We offer care days for periods of short-term personal illness or emergency family illness, plus opportunities to take unpaid leave for a variety of reasons.
- Our health care & dental benefits offer three levels of health care and dental coverage for you to select from. These benefits will also be effective immediately based on your hire date.
- We understand that retirement means different things to different people and at Vancity we will offer you a Defined pension plan that pays you a retirement income for life.