Market Implementation Analyst

**Market Implementation Analyst**

**Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd.**

**Vancouver, BC**

Are you a self-starter who loves tackling challenging problems in a team-oriented, fast-paced environment? Do you love the idea of living in Vancouver?

A culture of innovation, career growth and success through collaboration has enabled us to deliver superior investment performance to our clients for over two decades. Today, our clients entrust us with over $37 billion in assets across a range of investment mandates.

**What You Will Do**
- Working collaboratively within our quantitative investment management team including with our trading desk and portfolio management teams, you will be responsible for executing key daily processes required for implementing our quantitative equity portfolios in the market.
- Develop a strong understanding of our investment strategies, business goals and processes as it relates to the implementation of portfolio financing, stock borrow, securities lending and collateral management.
- Interact with our external dealers, prime brokers, custodians, and counterparties in coordinating projects to maintain and enhance our investment processes and ensure the accuracy of the data we rely on them for.
- Review, analyze and propose enhancements to our existing processes and procedures to ensure operational success and the fulfilment of best practices in the market implementation of our investment portfolios.
- Monitor and evaluate key performance indicators in the market implementation of our portfolios and communicate your findings with the rest of the team.
- Support other members of the Market Implementation team and perform backup duties as required.
- Perform other duties as assigned including ad-hoc projects relating to new clients, counterparties, and processes.
- Ongoing personal training and development.

**What You Bring**
- **Interpersonal & Teamwork**: Collaboration, Internal and External Communication skills, Ability to Coordinate Deliverables, Multi-Tasking, Self-starter, Drive for Results.
- **Analytical Mindset **- You have a drive for efficiency along with the desire to organize and automate. You are accountable, proactive, curious, a continuous learner, and have the ability to work in a continually changing environment.
- **Technical Skills**: Balancing Multiple priorities, Analytical Thinking, Attention to Detail, Self-Organized, Ability to develop a comfort level and understanding of databases and basic database queries.
- **Time Management** - You are able to manage and prioritize multiple ongoing projects and daily responsibilities.
- **Self-Starter** - You are a self-starter and are motivated and willing to take personal accountability for quality and timeliness of work.
- **Collaborative Approach **- You thrive in a collaborative environment and value shared success. You proactively solicit and provide input and excel at communicating complex and technical concepts.
- **Academic Training** - An undergraduate degree in finance, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline. Your completion of the CFA or relevant graduate degree is considered an asset.
- **Financial Knowledge** **and Experience** -You have a passion for quantitative finance, equity investment, data science (or related fields) with 1 to 3 years of relevant work or co-op experience.

**Reasons to Grow Your Career with Us**
- **Impact** - We help create opportunities for you to leverage your personal strengths to make a positive impact on our business.
- **Culture** - Collaboration and innovation are deeply rooted in our culture. We enjoy working together and align our passions in pursuit of a shared objective in every project we undertake.
- **Development** - We create conditions for success tailored to each employee through internally developed career development plans.
- **Mentorship** - We believe that developing great people is the key to great success. You will have opportunities to share, hear and learn about career experiences from peers and senior team members.
- **Work-Life Balance **- Vancouver is surrounded by water, mountains, and cherry blossoms. We work hard in our professional lives but also create space to enjoy our personal lives.

**About Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management**

Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management is a global institutional asset management firm established in 1982 and based in Vancouver, Canada. Our strong, stable team of investment professionals manages a broad range of investment solutions that includes traditional mandates such as developed and emerging market equities and fixed income, as well as alternative strategies such as portable alpha, market neutral and absolute return.

Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. is part of the Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd. (CC&L Financial Group), a multi-boutique investment management company whose affiliates collectively manage over $110 billion i