ReconciliationSpecialist

The Reconciliation Specialist (L5) is responsible for the daily cash and transactions reconciliations between internal books and the custodian, providing treasury with opening balance adjustments, and completing daily holdings reconciliations between the internal and external records. They also provide daily reporting of discrepancies to securities accounting and treasury. **Position Responsibilities** The Reconciliation Specialist will be responsible for efficient reconciliation and review of Manulife Investment Management portfolios and provision of investigative support to related business units and Portfolio Managers. This includes timely and accurate comparison of security position, cash balance and cash transaction with custodians. Establish and maintain cordial relationships with various stakeholders including internal and external parties. The Reconciliation Specialist is also responsible for the administration of the assigned investment portfolio activity including: Reconciliation of securities holdings, cash balances and cash transactions across all portfolios. Perform initial investigation and coordinate resolution with the different operations team and external parties. Serve as a backup reviewer of reconciliation exceptions of the cash balance, cash transactions and holdings for all portfolios. Continuously work with other departments within Investment Division to ensure all outstanding items are resolved in a timely manner. Maintain daily and monthly reconciliations filing with proper back up documentation. Sign off all daily reconciliations to meet deadlines stipulated in Service Level Agreement Work within existing procedures and processes ensuring clear and concise documentation is created and maintained as such procedures and processes evolve over time Assist in providing training to junior colleagues and new joiners. Prepare MIs, lead and participate on business governance calls. Recommend and initiate process improvements and improved controls /