Associate, Client Service – Operations

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About the role

  • BMO institutional client service associate coordinating onboarding, reporting, and account operations. Supporting investment clients and Institutional Sales across financial-services teams.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate end-to-end onboarding of new institutional clients, accounts, products, and mandates
  • Maintain onboarding plans, checklists, dependencies, owners, approvals, target dates, and outstanding-item logs
  • Coordinate legal, AML/KYC, compliance, tax, operational, reporting, invoicing, account-opening, funding-readiness, and system-setup requirements
  • Identify risks to launch dates, escalate delays, and provide status updates to clients, Institutional Sales, and internal stakeholders
  • Maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready onboarding records and approvals
  • Serve as a primary service contact for assigned institutional clients, consultants, and authorized representatives
  • Respond to inquiries, coordinate internal action, and track requests through resolution
  • Coordinate account information, statements, reports, invoices, contributions, withdrawals, transfers, contacts, authorized signatories, and account-maintenance requests
  • Coordinate preparation, quality review, and delivery of monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc client reporting
  • Validate reporting recipients, delivery instructions, distribution lists, and client preferences
  • Coordinate fee-invoice delivery and resolve reporting and invoicing inquiries
  • Act as central coordinator for operational and servicing matters affecting assigned clients
  • Establish issue ownership, actions, target dates, escalation points, and communication plans
  • Monitor inquiries, missed commitments, reporting failures, service delays, and client dissatisfaction indicators
  • Communicate service concerns, changing needs, stakeholder changes, retention risks, and expansion signals to Institutional Sales
  • Support client service reviews through service metrics, open-item logs, incident summaries, remediation updates, and documented actions
  • Maintain client records in Salesforce and other designated systems
  • Coordinate mandate and account changes, client transitions, and account closures
  • Identify workflow simplification, template standardization, control-strengthening, and manual-handoff reduction opportunities
  • Support audits, control testing, regulatory inquiries, and audit-ready evidence maintenance
  • Provide backup coverage, share knowledge, and support training of new team members
  • Adhere to BMO policies and legal, compliance, regulatory, risk, privacy, and information-security requirements
  • Diagnose, escalate, and resolve problems within established authority and guidelines
  • Work independently on complex assignments requiring coordination across multiple teams
  • Support broader business and strategic initiatives affecting Institutional Sales and Service

Requirements

  • Four to six years of relevant experience
  • Post-secondary degree in business, finance, economics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Experience supporting institutional clients within asset management, investment management, pensions, custody, banking, or financial services
  • Working knowledge of institutional client onboarding, account administration, and client lifecycle management
  • Familiarity with KYC, AML, suitability, tax, legal, and regulatory documentation applicable to institutional clients
  • Experience coordinating client reporting, portfolio-review materials, fee invoices, and service requests
  • Experience with Salesforce or a comparable CRM
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent organization, prioritization, and project-coordination capabilities
  • High attention to detail, sound judgment, and disciplined escalation
  • Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to translate complex operational matters into clear client communications
  • Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills
  • Risk and control awareness, data-driven decision-making, and a continuous-improvement mindset
  • Discretion in handling confidential client and business information
  • Canadian Securities Course or another relevant industry designation is considered an asset
  • Experience working with custodians, recordkeepers, investment operations teams, or outsourced service providers is considered an asset

Benefits

  • Performance-based incentives
  • Discretionary bonuses
  • Other perks and rewards
  • Health insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Accident and life insurance
  • Retirement savings plans
  • In-depth training and coaching
  • Manager support
  • Network-building opportunities
  • Accommodation available during the selection process

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid level

Salary

CA$50,000 - CA$100,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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