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Hybrid

Job Description

Qualifications:

• Excels in a team environment interacting with both business and finance colleagues globally.
• 2+ years prior experience in Affinity, Group Benefits, IIC or GIP with a financial mindset is an advantage.
• University Business Degree and/or recognized finance/accounting designation
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with database applications
• Prior experience with Lawson, Jets, Dart, & Trecs is an advantage.
• Proven self-starter with the ability to work independently.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-performing, and collaborative team environment while managing multiple, constantly changing priorities and ad-hoc requests.
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Proactive in executing and owning the processes and controls
• Experience in Mainframe, AWD, MS Access, SQL data server, and Power BI would be an advantage.

Competencies:

• Strong oral/written communication skills required to interact with senior officers and representatives from other Divisions and functional departments

• Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to be flexible to changing environments
• Ability to work independently and to willing to collaborate with other teams for a project with huge scale benefits
• Willing to work night shift schedule (8PM-5AM PHT / 8AM-5PM EST)

Problems/Challenges:

Accounting entries left to age until they go beyond clearing standard might have impact to Manulife’s or clients’ money.  

Misstatement in Investment Division Financial Statements as a result of incorrect subsidiary accounting entries can lead to incorrect management decisions or potential tax or compliance issue.

Position Dimensions (Organizational Impact):

The Senior Financial Analyst role serves as a control that ensures all accounting entries that go into the general ledger accounts and systems will eventually go out before they reach beyond clearing standard. This will ensure that there’s no errors existing that can impact Manulife’s or Client’s money.

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].