We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today. 

Hybrid

Job Description

What motivates you?

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit. 

• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile mindset and enable business outcomes. 

• You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.

• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters. 

• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.

• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.

We are looking for someone with:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; preferably a CPA board passer

• Prior experience in a finance role preferred.

• Proven ability to thrive in a fast paced, high-performing, and collaborative team environment while managing multiple, constantly changing priorities and ad-hoc requests.

• Knowledge of general ledger reporting tools and systems.

• Experience with MS Excel including working with Macros and other Excel add-ins. Proficiency in Microsoft PowerSuite is a plus (Power BI, PowerApps, Power Automate, etc)

• Proven self-starter with the ability to work independently with less supervision and establish priorities to meet deadlines.

• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

• Strong attention to detail and aptitude to learn.

• Excels in a team environment interacting with both business and IT colleagues.

On the job you will: ·  

•  Work closely with the business units to ensure smooth flow in the daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting cycle of the Canada WAM Retail and Retirement team.

• Responsible for performing accounting and reporting activities such as preparing standard and non-standard journal entries, reconciling general ledger accounts, bank reconciliation, analyzing financial results, and preparing various reports for both internal / external stakeholders.

• Maintain control / process documentation and prepare audit requests related to internal and external audit requirements.

• Participate actively in process improvement initiatives by understanding and analyzing business needs and share best practices with other team members.

• Compile ad hoc accounting and analyses for BU's and serve as back up support to team members as needed.

Company Working Arrangement: Hybrid

Work Shift: Mid Shift (3pm-12am) every Monday and Month ends; Day Shift every Tuesday to Friday, except Month ends

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law. 

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [email protected].