Associate Director, Valuations - SLC Management

Sun Life Financial; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness programs

Flexible work environment

Pension and stock plan

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

SLC Management, part of Sun Life, seeks an Associate Director of Valuations to lead end-to-end valuation delivery across asset classes. You will partner with Technology and external providers to ensure accurate, timely valuation outputs and scalable processes within a hybrid in-office/remote environment.

You will manage and mentor a team, drive process improvements, and collaborate with Finance, Risk, and Audit to maintain strong controls and risk management in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of securities valuation or related finance experience.
• Experience owning processes, platforms, and delivery.
• Experience with third-party valuation providers and systems.
• Proven ability to manage change and meet tight deadlines.
• Leadership experience including mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily and month-end valuation delivery across asset classes.
• Serve as hands-on backstop for Asset Class Leads during high-risk periods.
• Review and challenge outputs for high-risk or complex items.
• Own valuation platforms, workflows, and vendor-pricing integrations.
• Lead implementation and stabilization of new valuation capabilities.
• Drive remediation of recurring system issues and pricing-feed failures.
• Act as primary escalation point for cross-asset valuation issues.
• Lead root-cause analysis of pricing challenges.
• Design and oversee daily operational controls to identify valuation risk.
• Identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements.
• Manage and develop team members; provide mentorship.

Skills

Valuation leadership

Valuation platforms

Vendor pricing

Cross-functional collaboration

Change management

Tools

Aladdin

Bloomberg

Excel

Pricing feeds

Job description

Company Overview

SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative and diversified investment solutions to institutional investors. We are breaking new ground with a full spectrum of solutions for a growing institutional client base of more than 1400 organizations. Our history of organic and strategic growth reflects this commitment with over CA$422/US$304 billion in assets under management (AUM). As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we are aligned with one of the world’s leading financial services companies, and benefit from the stability and strength of that relationship. We are a performance-driven organization with a deliberate focus on fostering a development-focused, inclusive culture revolving around our Core Values of being client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed and having an owner’s mindset. As part of our team, you play a role in fulfilling our purpose and making a difference. We offer a rewarding work environment that is filled with opportunity for growth where you will be empowered to meet the challenges of a highly competitive landscape. Visit our website to learn more and for the most up to date AUM information. SLC Management offers a mix of in-office and virtual work where our employees are empowered to do their best. Generally, employees are expected to work three or more days in-office each week with flexibility depending on their business, client and team needs.

Job Description

Associate Director, Valuations - SLC Management

What is in it for you

The Associate Director, Valuations is responsible for end-to-end valuation delivery and operational enablement across asset classes, with a focus on valuation platforms, vendor-provided pricing, execution stability, and issue resolution. This hands-on leadership role ensures accurate, timely, and consistent valuation outputs for Finance, Risk, and external clients while driving scalable processes and maintaining a strong control environment. The Director will collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners to resolve complex operational challenges and enable valuation teams to perform effectively at scale.

What you will do

• Oversee daily and month-end valuation delivery across asset classes, with accountability for accuracy, timeliness, and operational stability.
• Serve as a hands-on execution backstop for Asset Class Leads during periods of elevated risk, complexity, capacity constraint, or system instability.
• Review and challenge valuation outputs for high-risk, high-visibility, or complex items before release.
• Own valuation platforms, workflows, and vendor-pricing integrations supporting fixed income, exchange-traded products, and complex instruments.
• Lead the implementation, testing, and stabilization of new valuation capabilities, products, and system enhancements in partnership with Technology and external providers.
• Drive remediation of recurring system issues, pricing-feed failures, and process breakdowns affecting valuation delivery.
• Act as the primary escalation point for cross-asset, cross-system, and other complex valuation issues.
• Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of pricing challenges, stale or missing prices, and unexpected valuation movements.
• Design and oversee daily operational controls that proactively identify and mitigate valuation risk.
• Identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements that reduce manual effort and improve scalability.
• Manage and develop team members through execution support, mentoring, and technical guidance.
• Communicate valuation and operational issues clearly to senior management and other stakeholders.
• Partner with Valuation Governance, Finance, Risk, and Audit by providing operational analysis, audit support, and comprehensive documentation.

What you need to succeed

• 5+ years of experience in securities valuation, valuation operations, or a closely related financial-services role.
• Demonstrated experience owning processes, platforms, and operational delivery.
• Experience working with third-party valuation providers, valuation systems, and cross-functional business partners.
• Demonstrated ability to manage change, resolve complex operational issues, and deliver under tight deadlines.
• Leadership experience, including managing, mentoring, and providing technical guidance to team members.

Preferred skills

• Strong knowledge of fixed income and third-party valuation vendor ecosystems.
• Experience with valuation and market-data platforms, including Aladdin/BlackRock, Bloomberg, and vendor pricing feeds.
• Advanced Excel and analytical tooling skills.
• Strong business judgement, analytical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Proven change-management skills and the ability to lead through complexity and tight deadlines.
• Self-motivated, execution-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong relationship-building, consensus-building, and influencing skills across Front Office, Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk, Governance, and Audit.

Why SLC Management

• Opportunity to work for a growing global institutional asset manager.
• Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being– mental, physical and financial– including generous vacation and sick time, market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top up program, a partially-paid sabbatical program and much more.
• Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match to help build and enhance your future financial security.
• A flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture focused on career growth development.
• #WeWinAsATeam
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
• Award winning workplace culture– Great Place to Work® Certified inCanada and theU.S., "Best Places to Work" by Glassdoor, Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work, "Best Places to Work in Money Management" by Pension & Investments.

SLC Management is a regulated business, and this means that there are certain financial reporting and trading preclearance requirements for all employees. Successful candidates will be required to declare personal investment accounts and securities investments as well as seek preclearance on future transactions including those of household members.

Job Category & Salary

Job Category: Finance Salary Range 80,000/80000-128,000/128000 We are committed to pay transparency and equity. The base salary range for this role is competitive and we strive to ensure that compensation is fair and equitable. Your actual base salary will be determined by your unique skills, qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive award based on individual and overall business performance along with a broad range of competitive benefits.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel they belong, are supported and empowered to thrive. We are dedicated to building teams with varied experiences, backgrounds perspectives and ideas that benefit our colleagues, clients, and the communities where we operate. We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds. We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling. We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations. Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to [e-mail]. We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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