Investment Accounting Analyst

2 weeks ago

Hamilton, Canada McMaster University Full time

**Regular/Temporary**
- Regular

**Job Title**
- Investment Accounting Analyst

**Job ID**
- 67057

**Location**
- Downtown Centre

**Open Date**
- 01/15/2025

**Job Type**
- Continuing

**Close Date**
- 02/03/2025

**Employee Group**
- Unifor Unit 1, Staff

**Favorite Job**

**Department**
- FA Treasury

**Salary Grade/Band**
- Grade 7

**Salary Range**
- $24.59 - $38.17 (hourly)

**Hours per Week**
- 35

**Posting Details**

**Schedule**
- 35 hours/week Mon-Fri

**Education Level**
- Bachelor's degree in Investments Accounting, Finance, Auditing, or related field.

**Grade**
- 7

**About McMaster University**

Ranked as one of the world’s top universities, McMaster University is known for teaching and research excellence. Our purpose is the discovery, communication, and preservation of knowledge. We seek to create a Brighter World through research, focused on the health and well-being of all. Through our teaching, research, and scholarship, we are committed to creativity, innovation, and excellence. We value integrity, quality, inclusiveness, and teamwork in everything we do. We inspire critical thinking, personal growth, and a passion for lifelong learning. We serve the social, cultural, and economic needs of our community and our society.

**About Financial Affairs**

Financial Affairs provides financial leadership serving the University with strategic performance oversight, financial outlook analysis, and reporting. Financial Affairs manages the University’s financial internal control environment, including regulatory compliance, while also driving continuous improvement initiatives and providing change leadership.

**About the Position**

**Representative Duties & Responsibilities**
- Process various accounting activities within the department including, but not limited to, analysis and record keeping of investment activity (e.g., recording of gains/ losses), income, expenses and accounting, investment manager/consultant related expenses and HST recoveries and the preparation of year-end audit working papers for external audit relating to University investments.
- Perform a range of accounting and record keeping functions for the University Investment Pool, Salaried Pension Plans and Hourly Pension Fund including, but not limited to, the determination of the investment pool unit value, preparation of working papers supporting investment pool, investment returns, and unitization, monitoring, accounting, and settlement of allocated investment and administration expenses charged to the investment pool and pension plans.
- Analyse and develop solutions for complex securities and derivatives transaction settlement issues.
- Prepare monthly and year-end pension fund schedules including contributions, income, gains/losses, termination payments, and expenses.
- Resolve financial statement discrepancies.
- Prepare monthly cash flow forecast for pension funds.
- Prepare monthly and year-end investment schedules including income, gains/losses, and expenses.
- Calculate annual rates of return to determine annual pension payment increases.
- Record and balance Investment Pool income, expenses, gains and losses, and accruals.
- Coordinate with bank and custodian monthly employer and employee pension contribution transfers.
- Provide guidance and make recommendations on the transfer of funds to maintain positive cash position in pension plans.
- Prepare HST Rebate schedules and reports used to calculate refunds for University pension funds.
- Complete Trust Annual Reporting requirements associated with investments.
- Review University and pension funds invoices and submit for payment.
- Write a variety of documents, including, but not limited to, performance reports for University and pension funds on a semi-annual basis.
- Adhere to established departmental and University deadlines.
- Prepare reconciliation of custodial reports to investment manager monthly statements.
- Create and update spreadsheets to input and track financial information.
- Adapt to changes in software and policies by attending courses and exchanging information with field experts.
- Act as a resource to staff and departments and external agencies and respond to inquiries and transactions pertaining to financial issues.
- Utilize standard mathematical skills to generate formulas and equations to perform a variety of calculations

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in Investments Accounting, Finance, Auditing, or related field.
- Requires 3 year of relevant experience.

**How To Apply**

**Employment Equity Statement**

McMaster University is located on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Mississauga Nations and within the lands protected by the “Dish With One Spoon” wampum agreement.

The diversity of our workforce is at the core of our innovation and creativity and strengthens our research and teaching excellence. In keeping with its Statement on Building an Inclusive Community with a Shared Purpose, McMaster University st

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