Manager, Financial Reporting

Purpose Unlimited is an independent financial services company with an unrelenting focus on customer-centric innovation, delivered through technology-driven solutions. Led by entrepreneur Som Seif, the company is developing a diversified product platform aimed at addressing historically underserved segments of the market. Purpose Unlimited’s businesses include Purpose Investments, Advisor Solutions by Purpose, and Driven.

Who is Purpose Investments?

Purpose Investments is an innovation-driven asset management company with over $20 billion under management, offering both managed and quantitative investment products. Much of what is available to the average Canadian investor today is outdated and expensive. Purpose Investments’ goal is to constantly innovate, and make investing simple, intuitive and affordable for everyone.

Vacancy Status

This is for a current opening.

Compensation

$120,000 - $135,000

Job Description

Responsibilities: What you will do / What you will own

Regulatory Reporting Excellence

• Deliver Annual and Semi-Annual Financial Statements and MRFPs across the full Purpose fund lineup, on time and defect-free, every cycle
• Lead production of Fund Facts, ETF Facts, and Quarterly Portfolio Disclosures – from AI-assisted first draft to final regulatory filing
• Drive SEDAR+ submissions and investor disclosure dissemination with zero missed deadlines

Reporting Infrastructure & AI Governance

• Oversee and improve the AI-augmented reporting workflows your team relies on, escalating systemic issues and identifying automation opportunities
• Maintain audit-ready documentation of AI-assisted processes, ensuring human review and sign-off is embedded at every critical control point
• Serve as the fund operations team’s subject matter expert on financial reporting standards under NI 81-106 and IFRS

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner with product, legal, and compliance teams on prospectus renewals, fund launches, and ad hoc regulatory requirements – delivering expert input that accelerates timelines, not slows them
• Support board reporting and corporate fund management reporting, including board meeting participation where required
• Build and maintain the external partner relationships (administrators, auditors, legal counsel) that are essential to the company’s regulatory standing

What success looks like in your first year

• Zero regulatory filing misses. Every Fund Facts, ETF Facts, MRFP, and financial statement delivered on schedule across all Purpose funds, with no material restatements
• Reporting cycle time reduced by 20%+. Working with the team and leveraging AI tooling, you have measurably shortened the end-to-end production cycle for at least one major annual filing
• AI governance embedded. You have documented and operationalized human review controls over all automated reporting workflows, satisfying audit requirements and internal standards
• Trusted cross-functional partner. Product, compliance, and legal teams regard you as the go-to voice on fund financial reporting – proactively engaged, not reactive
• Pipeline ready. You’ve identified and begun developing your successor capability within the fund operations team, demonstrating the Owner’s Mindset that Purpose promotes from

What AI does so you don’t have to

Purpose is committed to deploying AI across every workflow where it outperforms manual effort. In this role, that means you will inherit – and continue to build – an AI-augmented reporting stack. Specifically, AI will handle:

• First-pass data aggregation across fund accounting systems, eliminating manual pull-and-paste cycles
• Automated anomaly detection in fund NAVs, flagging exceptions before they become problems
• Draft generation of standard regulatory filings (Fund Facts, ETF Facts, QPDs) from structured data sources
• Regulatory change monitoring, surfacing relevant CSA, OSC, and SEDAR updates requiring human review
• Template management for financial statements, leaving you to review, interpret, and approve – not build from scratch

What only you can do

This is the role’s irreplaceable core – the judgment, relationships, and accountability that AI cannot replicate:

• Own the integrity of Purpose’s fund financial statements and regulatory filings – your name, your accountability
• Exercise professional judgment where accounting standards meet real-world ambiguity in Canadian investment fund structures
• Lead and develop the relationships with external auditors, fund administrators, and legal counsel that determine how smoot