Financial Operations Analyst

Financial Operations Analyst About the role Orion is looking for a Financial Operations Analyst to join our Financial Operations team. This is a full-time, remote role reporting to the Director of Investing Operations. This is not a traditional operations role. We are looking for someone who can support the day-to-day needs of Financial Operations while also helping us redesign, automate, and improve how work gets done. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, strong in finance and reconciliations, comfortable working with operational data, and motivated to reduce manual work through automation, better controls, and AI-first ways of working. We want someone who does not simply execute existing processes, but actively questions inefficient workflows and looks for better, faster, more scalable ways to operate. Compensation: $60,000 – $80,000 CAD base + performance bonus + equity What you’ll do - Perform daily, weekly, and monthly Financial Operations tasks, including reconciliations, transaction monitoring, cash movement review, operational reporting, and fund operations support. - Support fund accounting and investment operations processes, including deposits, withdrawals, subscriptions, redemptions, returned items, account activity reviews, and balance updates. - Investigate and resolve operational breaks, data discrepancies, failed transactions, returned items, reconciliation issues, and other exceptions in a timely and controlled manner. - Identify, challenge, and improve manual workflows by designing practical automation solutions that reduce repetitive work, improve accuracy, and strengthen operational controls. - Own automation opportunities from problem identification through workflow mapping, build, testing, documentation, and ongoing improvement. - Build and maintain Excel-based and code-assisted operational tools, including advanced spreadsheets, VBA/macros, Python scripts, templates, and recurring reporting files. - Use AI tools as a default part of daily work, including research, analysis, coding support, reconciliation review, documentation, testing, workflow redesign, and process improvement. - Document workflows, process logic, exceptions, controls, and runbooks so operational processes become repeatable, scalable, and less dependent on individual knowledge. - Partner with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Finance, and external vendors to move operational priorities forward and support automation and systems-improvement initiatives. What we’re looking for - 2–4+ years of experience in financial operations, fund operations, fund accounting, investment operations, brokerage operations, automation, business systems, or a related finance/operations role. - Strong Excel skills, including advanced formulas, data analysis, reconciliations, and experience building or maintaining Excel macros/VBA-enabled files. - Working knowledge of automation and coding, ideally including VBA and Python. - Practical experience using AI tools, copilots, or agent-based workflows to accelerate analysis, coding, testing, documentation, reconciliation review, or process improvement. - Examples of tools, scripts, macros, automations, or AI-assisted workflows you have personally built, improved, or used to reduce manual work. - Understanding of fund accounting concepts, investment transactions, reconciliations, cash movements, subscriptions, redemptions, returned items, and client account activity. - Strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and ability to investigate and resolve operational breaks, discrepancies, and data quality issues. - High ownership mindset with strong follow-through, sound judgment, and comfort operating with limited guidance in ambiguous or evolving situations. - Low tolerance for repetitive manual work and a habit of questioning inefficient processes. - Strong curiosity, learning velocity, and willingness to continuously improve how work is done through automation, documentation, AI to