Operations Associate

Job Title:

Operations Associate

Job Description:

Operations Associate (Equity & Equity Swaps Team)

Our client is a financial sciences company, combining data analysis, invention, and rigorous inquiry to help solve the toughest challenges in investment management, insurance technology, securities, private equity, and venture capital.

Our team of scientists, technologists, and academics looks beyond the traditional to develop creative solutions to some of the world’s most complex economic problems.

The Operations team ensures the Investment Manager’s trading assets are settled, serviced, valued, and accurately represented on our books and records for downstream reporting. We strive for 100% straight thru processing including T0 matching of our trading activity, T 1 position and PNL reconciliation, and timely processing of post trade events including options processing and asset servicing. Operations identifies and resolves differences between our internal data and the data represented by prime brokerage, clearing, custodian, and fund administrator platforms used to settle, clear, and custody our positions and administer our funds in a timely manner.

We are seeking a hardworking and exceptionally detail-oriented Operations Associate to join our Operations team. You will be performing vital middle office / post trade support functions and participating in projects and initiatives that will help build and develop critical business activities and manage operational risk.

Candidates should be a strong problem solver with critical thinking abilities, possess strong relationship management skills, have the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks, and takes a collaborative approach to team engagement. If you are excited about joining a fast-paced, dynamic team, we'd love to meet you!

You Will Take On The Following Responsibilities

• Perform trade reconciliations
• Define and implement operational risk controls
• Reconcile internal positions across multiple counterparties and asset classes
• Manage admin positions/transactions/cash reconciliations exceptions across multiple counterparties
• Manage T 0 matching and settlements across multiple asset classes and markets
• Manage mandatory/voluntary corporate action event and post trade event lifecycles
• Analyze our existing operational platform to establish straight through processing and find efficiencies
• Partner with technology teams to deliver automated processes
• Track, resolve, and remediate incidents