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SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Performance Analyst

Location(s): Toronto / Montreal | Hybrid

Status: Full time Permanent

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for today’s and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to reach out and apply to our welcoming and inclusive environment.

SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, integrity, and innovation to name a few. We are a fast-paced environment, who promote flexibility, authenticity and offer a hybrid working model to ensure employees can manage their day and meet both work and personal commitments.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility : Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future: RRSP Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C Learning Institute
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

• Wide-Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents and Experiences of Our Employees
  

What You Will Get To Do:

As a member of the Risk Analytics & Performance team, the Performance Analyst will participate in supporting client implementations and will provide ongoing operational and analytical evolution of client solutions to alternative investment clients (hedge funds, FoFs, private equity) based SS&C’s services and platforms. The Performance Analyst can also expect to be involved in activities such as testing of new functionalities and optimization and simplification of client’s onboarding procedure. Responsibilities include:

• Design and implementation of client-facing solutions customizing, where required, off the shelf SS&C services and platforms.
• Improve testability and stability of client specific implementations.
• Participating in implementations of new clients in areas of investment performance, attribution analysis, ex-post risk measurement and GIPS compliance
• Supporting production process, and ensuring timely client deliverables
• Providing ongoing day-to-day support to clients
• Proposing, researching and designing individualized methodologies aimed at improvement throughput and solution reliability in production.
• Regularly interacting with internal and external clients, product management teams, fund accounting teams and senior management to ensure effective operation
• Cultivating relationships with both internal and external partners
Keeping abreast of industry initiatives and market trends that impact the business

What You Will Bring:

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in software development and delivery or 4 years of related experience.
• Proven academic achievement
• Experience in the financial industry (middle office/support area preferred) with understanding of fund accounting, performance measurements and risk analytics.
• Capable of working on multiple projects and task simultaneously
• Undergraduate Degree in business, finance, computer science, economics or related field
• M.Sc. or MBA is an asset
• CIPM and/or CFA designation or demonstrated progress towards one is an asset
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Superb people skills, strong team orientation and a professional attitude
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel (VBA knowledge a plus)
• Knowledge of investment accounting and risk management practices is desired
• Knowledge and understanding of derivative products is an asset
• Knowledge of performance measurement, risk analysis and/or attribution analysis is a strong asset
• Relational database knowledge (MS-SQL, Oracle) and basic SQL querying is an asset
• Working Knowledge of python and shell scripting is a strong asset
• Experience using or learning AI-enabled productivity and automation tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Blue Prism, workflow automation tools)
• Demonstrated curiosity and interest in improving operational efficiency, automation, reporting quality, and analytical workflows
Comfortable working with relational data structures and collaborating with technical teams to troubleshoot data or reporting issues

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. SS&C Technologies Canada Corp. fosters a positive, equitable and progressive workforce and is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process. We will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process. If you require any accommodation during the application and hiring process, please contact: tacanada@sscinc.com .

No phone calls or email applications please. We thank all candidates for their interest, but only those under consideration will be contacted.

Salary Range: $60,000-$97,000 CAD

This job advertisement is for an existing vacancy which has been posted both internally and externally.

You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must be able to provide a valid work or study permit, if selected for an interview.

SS&C uses AI tools to help screen and assess applicants by analyzing resumes and applications to identify candidates whose skills match our needs. These tools support, but do not replace, human decision-making

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Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.