Manager, Corporate Reporting and Financial Services

Manager, Corporate Reporting and Financial Services

Department: Finance and Facilities

Type: Full-Time - Permanent

Location: Toronto (Hybrid)

Posting Date: October 30, 2026

At OPTrust, paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow is our mission and business.

When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust – in Toronto, London and Sydney – makes a meaningful impact. Our culture is driven by team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone. We work in a fast-paced environment, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community.

What OPTrust offers you

• •Unique culture rooted in our core values – collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence and continuous improvement.
• •A purpose-driven environment where we all work towards the common goal of paying pensions today and preserving pensions for tomorrow.
• •Comprehensive benefits focused on your health and wellness, including dental, vision and extended health benefits, as well as membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan.
• •A flexible, hybrid work model.
• •A dedicated inclusion, diversity and equity strategy with meaningful opportunities to participate, including our employee-led resource groups.
• •Extensive professional development opportunities and learning initiatives including access to LinkedIn Learning, guest speakers, tuition reimbursement, professional association memberships, leadership development programs, a mentorship program, monthly professional development time and more.
• •A competitive vacation package with additional work-life balance day.

About the role

The Finance and Facilities Division is led by the Chief Financial Officer and includes accounting, operations, tax, and facilities functions and roles supporting OPTrust investment and pension activities. The Manager, Corporate Reporting and Financial Services supports accurate, timely, and compliant reporting for the Fund and oversees financial operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, receipts, disbursements, reconciliations, corporate card administration, expense management and pensioner tax reporting. The role oversees year-end reporting and audit activities, researches technical accounting and tax matters, maintains effective internal controls, and advances process and system improvements. The Manager also serves as a key finance process owner for Workday Financials and leads practical improvements in process design, data quality, automation, and responsible use of artificial intelligence. Working across teams, the role strengthens reporting integrity, operational performance and decision support while developing a high-performing team. This position provides outstanding customer service to functional business partners.

What you’ll do

Financial Reporting, Sustainability Reporting and Audit

• •Lead the preparation and review of financial statements and related disclosures, ensuring reporting is accurate, complete, timely, and compliant with Canadian accounting standards for pension plans, including Section 4600, IFRS, regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
• •Own the financial reporting calendar and lead audit planning and execution including evidence coordination, issue resolution, responses to auditor inquiries, and escalate significant issues or delays.
• •Assign and review analysis and reporting for senior management and the Audit Finance and Risk Committee, ensuring consistency with the financial statements and underlying records.
• •Support monthly, quarterly, and annual plan-level accounting, including actuarial smoothing and funding liability and surplus calculations on financial reporting and regulatory funding bases.
• •Monitor emerging accounting and regulatory developments and research their impact on accounting practices, processes and financial statement disclosures.
• •Prepare and review technical memoranda, analysis and recommendations for new or revised accounting issues, standards and disclosures.
• •Oversee the preparation and review of ESG and climate-related disclosures, including greenhouse gas emissions and portfolio sustainability metrics, and ensuring robust governance, data quality, internal controls and assurance readiness.
• •Develop and maintain a practical understanding of sustainability reporting frameworks, including CSDS, IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, and TCFD-aligned reporting.

Accounting Operations and Financial Services

• •Oversee the operations of the accounts payable and accounts receivable functions, establishing priorities and monitoring service, accuracy and timeliness.
• •Build effective partnerships across the organization and provide clear financial, accounting, control and process advice that supports informed decisions and practical business outcomes.
• •Oversee the complete and timely recording of receipts and disbursements, including administrative invoices, employee expenses, pension payments and benefit payments, and ensure amounts reconcile to banking and pension systems.
• •Monitor bank, subledger, and other financial system reconciliations; ensuring reconciliations are investigated, resolved or escalated on a timely basis.
• •Oversee invoice and expense processing and the corporate card program to support compliance with organizational policies and effective expenditure controls.
• •Deliver recurring operational control reporting on reconciliation status, transaction volumes, outstanding issues and other relevant performance measures.

Tax Compliance and Administration

• •Oversee withholding and consumption tax compliance, including remittances, reconciliations, filings and supporting documentation. Escalate complex or significant matters for advice or decision.
• •Coordinate the accurate and timely production and filing of pensioner and former-member tax slips for resident and non-resident recipients, including applicable Ontario, Quebec and federal reporting.
• •Monitor changes to tax reporting requirements, assess operational impacts and coordinate required updates with Member Experience and Pension Operations, Information Technology Operations and Security and external consultants.

Controls, Systems and Continuous Improvement

• •Act as process owner for Workday Financials capabilities, including Core Financials, General Ledger, Procure-to-Pay, Expense Management, Reporting and Dashboards.
• •Partner with Information Technology Operations and Security and functional leads to translate finance requirements into effective Workday business processes, configuration decisions, security roles, controls and reporting.
• •Lead or approve finance testing for system configuration changes, integrations, releases and enhancements, including test scenarios, expected results, defect resolution and business sign-off.
• •Develop Workday reports and dashboards that improve visibility into close status, supplier invoices, expenses, reconciliations, exceptions, service levels and control performance.
• •Collaborate with Member Experience and Pension Operations and Information Technology Operations and Security, and business teams to support process redesign initiatives to streamline handoffs, strengthen controls and enable effective business outcomes.
• •Design, document and maintain processes and controls to support regulatory compliance and mitigate operational risk.
• •Monitor the performance of key controls, follow up on exceptions and ensure identified issues are resolved or escalated appropriately. Escalate significant control deficiencies.
• •Identify and eliminate manual reconciliations, duplicate data entry, offline approvals and spreadsheet-dependent reporting where a controlled system solution is available.
• •Identify, assess and pilot AI-enabled finance use cases that improve accuracy, insight, efficiency or control effecti