The Position

Our Intern Program is designed to support the development of students and recent graduates for future positions by offering one-on-one mentoring, peer and experiential learning, internal training programs, and much more. We are currently accepting applications for undergraduate and master’s level students or recent graduates seeking the opportunity to work in the investment management space.  

As a student in our IT Centralized Support team you will have the opportunity to learn and contribute to the execution and monitoring of data enabled processes and reporting that impacts a wide variety of investment teams as well as learning about audit compliance from an IT lens and gaining exposure to investment applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement automated solutions to streamline and automate existing manual processes within the group using SQL, VBA, Python.

• Analyze current workflows and identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency gains.

• Build Power BI dashboards to monitor data quality

• Acquire an understanding of the investment data workflow by monitoring and measuring data feeds from multiple sources including accounting, performance measurement, security analytics, and private market systems.

• Gain experience with investment systems and market data sources (eg. Bloomberg) by monitoring and reviewing data flows into these systems for use by different stakeholders.

• Manage processes to continually maintain and improve data quality

• Perform root cause analysis to identify opportunities for process improvement.

• Interact with external business partners and data vendors to investigate and resolve data or system processing issues.

• Interact with other departments such as Performance Measurement, Risk, Compliance, Investment Finance and Investments to assist with ad-hoc data requests.

• Assist in gathering and storing audit evidence to support compliance with regulatory frameworks.

• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Working towards an undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, Math, Statistics,  Computer Science, or related field.

• Minimum of two (2) or more co-op work terms

• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL, VBA, Python, or other programming languages

• Candidates must demonstrate a proactive approach to learning new systems and possess a positive, adaptable attitude.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, being able to communicate comfortably with both internal and external stakeholders.

• Strong attention to detail with demonstrated desire and aptitude for working with data applications.

• Strong self-management and organizational skills to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Proficient with MS Suite (Excel, Word, Power Automate, Power BI, Planner, Loop, SharePoint, Visio) and Confluence
  Exposure to Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake services is an asset
  
  

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.