Location
Brookfield Place - 181 Bay Street
Business - Private Equity
Brookfield’s private equity business focuses on driving operational transformation in businesses providing essential products and services. Leveraging our deep experience built over 25 years as a long-term owner and operator of world-class assets and businesses, the team is focused on acquiring high-quality businesses with barriers to entry and enhancing their cash flow capabilities by improving strategy and execution drawing on the insights and data from the wider Brookfield ecosystem.
The private equity group has $150 billion of assets under management, with an integrated team of investment and operating professionals located in key regions around the world.
Brookfield Business Partners is the flagship listed vehicle of Brookfield’s private equity group. It is a global business services and industrials company focused on owning and operating high-quality businesses that provide essential products and services and benefit from a strong competitive position. Brookfield Business Partners is listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: BBU, TSX: BBU.UN). For more information, please visit our website at https://bbu.brookfield.com.
Brookfield Culture
Brookfield has a unique and dynamic culture. We seek team members who have a long-term focus and whose values align with our Attributes of a Brookfield Leader: Entrepreneurial, Collaborative and Disciplined. Brookfield is committed to the development of our people through challenging work assignments and exposure to diverse businesses.
Job Description
The Senior Analyst owns the day-to-day execution of the Cash and Risk Management functions of the Treasury group within the Private Equity platform. The ideal candidate is a self-directed owner who sets a high standard for accuracy and is comfortable managing multiple priorities and overlapping deliverables in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities:
Financial Risk Management & Operations
- Lead liquidity forecasting across the public and private platforms, providing clear variance analysis and commentary to support senior management decision-making;
- Manage the debt facility portfolio end-to-end, including covenant compliance, borrowing base reporting, drawdowns, amendments, and ongoing lender coordination;
- Oversee interest calculations and billings to portfolio companies, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of inquiries from portfolio finance teams;
- Manage custody accounts and execute custody-related transactions, ensuring appropriate controls and timely settlement;
- Act as the Treasury lead for the quarterly reporting cycle, including preparation of Management Discussion and Analysis inputs and coordination of responses to auditor inquiries;
- Structure and execute complex fund flows, coordinating legal documentation, step plans, banking requirements, and internal and external stakeholders to ensure transactions close accurately and on time;
- Act as a key relationship manager for banks, financial institutions, and internal business partners, independently managing inquiries, resolving escalations, and driving issues to resolution;
- Maintain and enhance Treasury policies and procedures related to fund flows and cash management, identifying opportunities to strengthen controls, standardize processes, and improve operational efficiency;
- Oversee the ISDA negotiation process and support FX and interest rate risk management activities, including hedge ratio monitoring, trade settlements, maturities, and swap settlements;
- Provide guidance to junior analysts and review work across the processes owned by the role, helping maintain a high standard of accuracy and execution across the team;
- Lead ad hoc analyses and special projects from scoping through execution, synthesizing findings and presenting recommendations and conclusions directly to stakeholders and senior management.
Cash / Systems Function
- Own the daily bank reconciliation process within the Treasury Management System (“Quantum”), including oversight of cash flow matching, exception resolution, and transaction designation to ensure accurate and timely reporting;
- Lead the investigation and resolution of failed transactions and settlement issues, assessing root causes, determining the appropriate course of action, and escalating with clear recommendations where required;
- Manage daily FX maturities from Quantum through settlement confirmation, proactively identifying and resolving breaks with banks and counterparties;
- Oversee the set-up and execution of wires and transfers through banking portals, ensuring transactions are consistent with approved requests and executed in accordance with internal controls;
- Administer bank account structures within Quantum, including account onboarding, account group maintenance, system configuration, and related data integrity;
- Act as a primary executor for urgent, complex, and high-value cash transactions, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely execution;
- Manage KYC/AML onboarding and documentation requirements for new and amended bank and custody accounts, coordinating with financial institutions and internal stakeholders through completion;
- Own the banking verification call-back control for vendors and third-party investors, including execution of the control, maintenance of procedures, and retention of appropriate audit evidence;
- Identify and drive automation, system enhancements, and process improvements across cash management and Treasury systems, including requirements definition, user acceptance testing, implementation, and post-launch validation.
Requirements:
- Recognized professional accounting designation (CPA preferred); CFA or CTP an asset;
- Three to five (3-5) years of progressive experience in treasury, capital markets, finance and/or accounting;
- Strong financial systems experience, including advanced Excel; Treasury Management System experience (Quantum an asset);
- Experience executing complex funds flows and managing banking relationships directly;
- Exceptional attention to detail, with the judgment to know when work can be relied on without further review;
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving ability, surfacing issues early with proposed solutions;
- Proven ability to own deliverables end-to-end with minimal direction;
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment;
- Superior communication and interpersonal skills, with the credibility to engage senior management and lenders;
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
Salary Range: $90,000 - $105,000 CAD
Position Opening Reason:
Backfill
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