Assistant Manager, Middle Office

Apex Group; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Four days in office

Job summary

Apex Group in Mississauga is seeking an experienced Middle Office/Trade Support professional to join our fixed income, FX, and derivatives desk. You will help manage trade capture, settlements, and risk reporting while collaborating with portfolio managers and custodians.

The role involves day-to-day reconciliation, issue resolution, and ensuring accuracy in high-volume operations. Four days in the office, Canada-based, with a discretionary annual bonus aligned to performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Economics; CFA preferred.
• 4+ years in middle office/ops or trade support; strong on equity, fixed income, derivatives.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Execute trade capture across fixed income, FX, money market, and futures.
• Support automated trade processing on high-volume OTC bond desk.
• Ensure timely settlements and coordinate securities and cash movements.
• Liaise with portfolio managers, brokers, custodians to resolve issues.
• Assist with daily risk reporting and client/monthly reporting.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Economics

CFA preferred

Job description

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers. Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide. Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion. That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience. Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities. For our business, for clients, and for you.

Key Responsibilities

Execute trade capture activities accurately and in a timely manner across fixed income, FX, money market, and futures products. Support automated trade processing on a high-volume OTC bond desk. Ensure timely and accurate settlement of trades, including booking, instruction, and coordination of securities and cash movements. Liaise daily with portfolio managers, counterparties, prime brokers, custodians, administrators, and internal teams to resolve trade capture and settlement issues. Investigate and follow up on trade discrepancies, failed trades, and unmatched instructions, ensuring prompt resolution. Monitor same-day and high-value trades with heightened focus on accuracy and prioritization. Perform day-start and day-end reconciliations and support month-end close processes. Provide daily and forward-looking cash projections to portfolio managers and traders. Assist with daily risk reporting, end-of-day reporting, and performance attribution. Maintain strong understanding of fund portfolios, allocations, and trading strategies.

Front Office & Stakeholder Support

Act as the primary point of contact for Front Office for all trading and settlement-related queries. Provide trade support and operational guidance to global trading desks. Share open orders, corporate action updates, and portfolio insights with stakeholders. Maintain strong relationships with portfolio managers, traders, brokers, and custodians.

Control, Risk & Reporting

Ensure adherence to financial controls, policies, and procedures; proactively identify process improvement opportunities. Independently validate transactions to protect investor interests and challenge deviations where required. Track and analyze failed trades and error trends across counterparties and custodians. Prepare Front Office statistics, broker metrics, and participate in broker and service review meetings. Support monthly and quarterly client reporting with high accuracy. Additionally any other Adhoc request that may be required by Client or Apex management.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or related field; advanced degree or CFA preferred.
• 4+ years of experience in middle office / operations or trade support within a financial institution, Strong understanding of equity, fixed income and derivative products, trade lifecycle, and risk management principles.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

We pride ourselves in our commitment to fostering a connected and inclusive culture, all our opportunities at Apex have four (4) days in office requirement.

Salary ranges from CAD $100,000.00 – CAD $120,000.00 plus additional discretionary yearly bonus based on corporate and individual's performance. Compensation within this range is dependent on individual's skills, experience and qualifications.

About Apex Group

We are dedicated to driving positive change in financial services while fuelling the growth and ambitions of asset managers, allocators, financial institutions, and family offices. Established in Bermuda in 2003, the Group has continually disrupted the asset serving industry through our investment in innovation and talent. Today, we set the pace in asset servicing and stand out for our unique single-source solution and unified cross asset-class platform which supports the entire value chain, harnesses leading innovative technology, and benefits from cross-jurisdictional expertise delivered by a long-standing management team and over 13,000 highly integrated professionals. We’re a people-powered business, and our people are full of ambition. Together, we’re inspired to lead the new era of data and tech enabled service. Bringing new products and services to market. Sharpening our client focus. Disrupting the market to exceed expectations. Innovating across a range of specialisms. With our focus on making a difference to our people, our planet and our society, you’ll experience more here than you would at most other companies. Prepare to accelerate.

We’re a people-powered business with a vision to inspire a new era of service-led FinTech. We’re expanding globally and offering more to our clients. This means you get more opportunities to grow with us. So prepare to accelerate. We’ll make sure the time and effort you put in takes you further, faster. Positive change starts with you. We’re a people-powered business with a vision to inspire a new era of service-led FinTech. We’re expanding globally and offering more to our clients. This means you get more opportunities to grow with us. So prepare to accelerate. We’ll make sure the time and effort you put in takes you further, faster. The journey is yours to own. When you stretch yourself, you grow. We want you to explore ways of working that will see you thrive as part of something bigger. We’ll help you with a solid structure, challenging projects, vibrant networks, supportive colleagues and approachable leaders. All the things you need to own your unique journey.