The Position

As a Summer Intern in the Investment Applications & Operations Technology (IOT) team, you will gain hands-on experience supporting investment systems, data workflows, and enterprise platforms. You will work closely with senior team members to understand business objectives, gather requirements, and assist in developing technical solutions. This internship offers a unique opportunity to learn about investment operations, systems implementation, and data analytics in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Support Stakeholder Engagement: Assist in liaising with Investment Operations teams to understand their business needs and priorities.

• Requirement Gathering: Help in eliciting business & technical requirements for workflows and system/process enhancements

• Collaboration: Work with various stakeholders, including Investment Operations, IT & Data team, and third-party vendors, to support the design and development of solutions.

• Process Mapping: Participate in detailed process mapping and documenting operational processes, data flows and controls.

• System & Integration Support: Assist in the implementation and testing of investment applications and integration solutions.

• Data Analytics & Reporting: Contribute to developing dashboards or reports to provide insights into operational performance.

• Testing and Quality Assurance: Help design, manage, and execute testing processes to ensure high-quality solutions.

• Issue Resolution: Assist in investigating root causes of issues, recommending changes, and maintaining accurate documentation.

• Knowledge Sharing: Collaborate with team members to disseminate knowledge and information effectively.

• Ensure support requests are accurately recorded in backlog

• Work closely with business users, IT Operations, and the vendor during all SDLC stages.

Requirements

• Post-secondary/Undergraduate program/combination of experience that demonstrates a strong background in computer science or engineering, or equivalent study in data analytics

• Diligent, detail oriented, and accurate when preparing deliverables

• Ability to work in a fast-paced demanding environment and manage multiple priorities

• A willingness to learn new things, a self-starter and able to work independently

• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills are required

• Working knowledge of SQL, familiarity with cloud-based data platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake is preferred

• Nice to have Python experience

• Understanding of investment operations and data management, with a basic grasp of financial instruments, is beneficial.

• Knowledge of application development life cycles including planning, requirement, analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and post-implementation activities in agile and waterfall approaches

• Excellent analytical, interpersonal skills with ability to communicate comfortably with both business and technical teams

Company
The Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) is Ontario’s professional asset manager, investing on behalf of our public sector clients so they can care for beneficiaries and secure retirement futures.

With approximately $86 billion in assets under management, we are one of the largest institutional investment managers in Canada and around the globe.

Our mandate is to provide broader public sector clients with exceptional investment management services, including best-in-class advice around portfolio construction, efficient access to a diverse range of asset classes and superior reporting on risks and returns.