Transformation Senior Analyst

Aston Carter; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 138,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Aston Carter is seeking a Transformation Senior Analyst to support a major change initiative across Middle and Back Office operations in a hybrid Toronto-based role. You will translate future-state changes into practical change management, training, and communications for affected teams.

Work with program workstreams and delivery partners to identify readiness risks, develop messaging, and prepare training materials to enable adoption of new processes and data flows within capital markets.

Qualifications

• Experience in investment operations and capital markets.
• Understanding of trade lifecycle, reconciliations, valuations, controls.
• Experience with data flows and their impact on Middle/Back Office.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of current and future-state Middle and Back Office processes and impacts.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify change support needs across workstreams and delivery partners.
• Support change impact assessments by identifying stakeholder groups, process changes, readiness risks, and training needs.
• Create clear, business-friendly communications, talking points, FAQs, and stakeholder updates.

Skills

Investment operations

Asset management

Pension operations

Capital markets

Trade lifecycle

Data lineage

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Tools

Aladdin

Job description

Job Title: Transformation Senior AnalystJob Description

The Middle & Back Office Change Management Transformation Senior Analyst supports a major transformation initiative by translating future-state Operations, Performance, Accounting, and related workflow changes into clear, practical change management, communication, and training support for impacted stakeholders. This role focuses on understanding how Middle and Back Office teams are affected by changes in processes, data, technology, controls, and operating models, and ensures that those teams are prepared, informed, and equipped to adopt new ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Develop a strong understanding of current and future-state Middle and Back Office processes, workflows, controls, dependencies, pain points, and user impacts.
• Partner closely with Middle and Back Office stakeholders, program workstreams, business leads, and delivery partners to understand what is changing and where additional change support is required.
• Support change impact assessments by identifying affected stakeholder groups, process changes, role impacts, readiness risks, training needs, and communication requirements.
• Create clear, business-friendly communications, talking points, FAQs, briefing notes, and stakeholder updates that explain Middle and Back Office changes in practical language.
• Support the preparation of training materials, job aids, process walkthroughs, readiness content, and adoption support for Operations, Performance, Accounting, and related teams.
• Stay closely involved in testing, readiness, and workflow validation activities to identify where users may need additional guidance, reinforcement, or support.
• Identify and document stakeholder concerns, knowledge gaps, readiness issues, adoption risks, unresolved questions, and areas requiring escalation.
• Provide clear and timely updates to transformation leadership on change readiness, communication needs, training progress, stakeholder sentiment, and emerging risks or blockers.
• Act as a connector between business users, delivery teams, training leads, communications support, and the Transformation Office to help ensure impacted teams are prepared for change.

Essential Skills

• Experience in investment operations, fund accounting, performance measurement, pension operations, asset management, or capital markets.
• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle, including reconciliations, valuations, accounting, controls, and reporting processes.
• Ability to explain how investment data flows through the organization and impacts Middle and Back Office activities.
• Experience working with investment data such as positions, transactions, cash, market values, exposures, accruals, and performance data.
• Understanding of how Operations, Accounting, and Performance teams use data for daily processing, month-end close, reporting, and decision-making.
• Ability to analyze downstream impacts of changes across multiple business functions.
• Proven experience supporting large-scale technology, operating model, or process transformations.
• Hands‑on involvement with change impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness, and user adoption.
• Ability to translate business, process, and technology changes into practical impacts for end users.
• Knowledge of Middle and Back Office workflows, controls, and risk and gap analysis.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Background in capital markets, asset management, or pension operations.
• Experience with fund accounting and performance measurement processes.
• Familiarity with investment operations platforms and tools such as Aladdin or similar systems.
• Experience with budgeting and reporting in an investment or capital markets context.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build trust and communicate effectively with diverse business and technology teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear talking points, FAQs, and briefing materials.
• Comfort working in a transformation office or change management function, collaborating with delivery, training, and communications teams.

Work Environment

This role reports into the Change Management function within a capital markets environment and operates in a hybrid working model. The standard hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with some flexibility on start and end times. The position requires working in the office four days per week, allowing for regular in-person collaboration with Middle and Back Office stakeholders, program workstreams, and transformation teams. The environment is structured, professional, and focused on supporting complex investment operations, technology change, and process transformation.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Toronto, ON.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $100.00 - $110.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Toronto, ON.

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Toronto,ON.

À propos d'Aston Carter

Aston Carter fournit des solutions de talent de classe mondiale à des milliers de clients à travers le monde. Spécialisés dans la comptabilité, la finance, les ressources humaines, lacquisition de talents, les achats, la chaine dapprovisionnement, et certaines professions administratives, nous étendons les capacités des entreprises à la pointe de lindustrie. Nous nous appuyons sur notre profonde expertise en matière de recrutement et sur notre vaste réseau pour répondre aux besoins évolutifs de nos clients et de notre communauté de talents avec agilité et excellence. Avec des bureaux aux États-Unis, au Canada, en Asie et en Europe, Aston Carter est au service dun grand nombre dentreprises du classement Fortune 500. Nous sommes fiers d'avoir remporté la désignation « Prix Platine » dans le cadre des prix Best of Staffing® Client et Talent décernés par ClearlyRated.

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