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CI Financial

Canadian asset manager growing through acquisitions

Manager – Finance - Wealth

Financial AccountingUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timeToronto, ON, Canada

About the Job

Requirements

  • CPA designation completed or nearing completion is preferred.
  • Three to six years of progressive accounting, finance, or public accounting experience.
  • A strong technical accounting and financial reporting foundation.
  • Advanced Excel and analytical skills, including the ability to work with complex financial models and large datasets.
  • Experience within wealth management, asset management, investment management, private equity, or other financial services organizations.
  • Exposure to acquisitions, valuations, corporate transactions, or transaction-related accounting.
  • Experience supporting audits, regulatory reviews, and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) financial reporting.
  • Ability to manage competing priorities, exercise sound judgment, and consistently meet deadlines.
  • Ability to translate financial information into meaningful business insights.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare and review monthly journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting working papers across multiple legal entities.
  • Lead key aspects of the month-end and quarter-end close process, ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, and delivered on time.
  • Analyze financial results, investigate variances, and provide meaningful insights to management.
  • Prepare quarterly investor reporting packages, including share price calculations, distributions, and other shareholder-related metrics.
  • Maintain financial models and supporting schedules used for shareholder reporting and governance purposes.
  • Partner with Corporate Development and business leaders to support acquisition, valuation, and integration activities.
  • Calculate and validate share issuance and repurchase amounts related to acquisition and rollover transactions.
  • Support internal and external audits and contribute to the ongoing enhancement of accounting policies, controls, and processes.
  • Identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency, automation, and reporting effectiveness.

Desired Qualifications

  • Interest in understanding the economics behind business and investment transactions.
  • Interest in exposure beyond traditional accounting and partnering with stakeholders across the business.
  • Ability to take ownership, demonstrate initiative, and work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Motivation to take on increasing levels of responsibility.

About the Company

CI Financial

Canadian asset manager growing through acquisitions

CI Financial builds and runs investment management and wealth-advisory platforms through a network of subsidiaries that manage assets and provide investment products and advisory services to individuals and institutions. Its platforms are advisor-facing, helping independent financial advisors and RIAs offer mutual funds, managed accounts, and other wealth-management services. The company differentiates itself by growing through acquisitions, creating a large, integrated footprint in Canada and the United States. Its goal is to scale into a leading diversified financial-services group serving a broad adviser network, a strategy that culminated in Mubadala Capital taking the company private in 2024.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Founded
1965

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