Accounting Control Associate Student Internship

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

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Job Title: Accounting Control Associate Student Internship

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

 Job Description:  Sun Life is a global Financial Services company. Our Accounting Control team has team members based in Canada, U.S and Ireland. Our team’s main function is to ensure all Financial Transactions are accurately accounted for and that effective controls are in place to prevent, detect, and solve any issues that could negatively impact the company and our shareholders. Right now, we are looking for people who are passionate about fund investments and banking. Effective management of fund investments plays a critical role to our business as it ensures shareholder satisfaction and stability, and we want you to experience what it’s like to work in the exciting Fund Investments area as an Accounting Control Associate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform daily Fund Settlements in accordance with our Service Level Agreement
• Participate in Fund Projects that engage with our Information Technology team and other relevant stakeholders
• Research and resolve complex general ledger queries
• Independently prepare reports and analyse relevant data
• Collaborate with your peers to ensure we give the best possible experience to our clients.
• Manage Bank Account reconciliations effectively

Qualifications and Skills:

• Do you enjoy solving problems? Trying different solutions until you reach the best result? Do you enjoy continuous learning and development?
• Do you thrive collaborating with a team of diverse, inclusive professionals?
• Do you want to experience the high-performance culture, consistently delivering results.
• Are you working towards a Bachelor of Business (Hons) Accounting and looking to secure your internship?

Sun Life’s Accounting Control team’s main function is to ensure that all Financial Transactions are accurately accounted for and that effective controls are in place to prevent, detect, and solve any issues that could negatively impact the company and our shareholders. We oversee the pricing process to ensure that the Administration Systems for our business units receive the correct unit value prices to run their cycles and properly process the value our shareholders accounts. We also maintain fund settlements and ensure our shareholder trade requests are actioned within a Service Level Agreement. We are also regulatory and compliance focused, we perform Internal and external audit requests to ensure our controls are effective which inspire confidence for our business leaders and shareholders. 

If you are interested in joining our dynamic and inclusive team – we look forward to hearing from you!

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