Senior Operations Analyst: Fixed Income & Derivatives

Responsibilities:

Support day-to-day resolution of complex investment accounting problems and transaction processing and is responsible for the client portfolio reconciliation processes.

• Lead daily transaction and cash reconciliations across internal systems, custodians, and counter parties

• Reconcile fixed income and derivatives instruments, including swaps, swaptions, futures, and FX

• Investigate and resolve complex reconciliation breaks related to principal and interest payments, lifecycle events, accruals, settlements, and corporate actions

• Perform root-cause analysis and escalate unresolved issues with clear documentation and recommendations

• Manage end-to-end structured security claims related to principal and interest payments, including preparation, documentation, submission, and tracking

• Resolve issues quickly with a sense of urgency

• Provide clear proactive communication on outstanding issues and resolutions

• Identify process control opportunities and recommend improvements

• Lead small to medium sized projects with varied levels of complexity

• Act as a senior operations point of contact for internal teams, custodians, and counter parties

• Support escalation management and knowledge sharing with the Operations team

• Balance conflicting resource and priority demands

Knowledge:

• Demonstrate a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise

Skills:

• Portfolio accounting systems

• Advanced Excel skills

• Bloomberg experience

• Communicating effectively in both oral and written communications

• Demonstrating uncompromising adherence to ethical principles

Abilities:

• Analyze problems and develop creative solutions

• Handle stressful situations and provide a high level of customer service in a calm and professional manner

• Provide efficient service to internal and external clients

• Partner and collaborate and work in a team environment

• Foster a cooperative work environment and partner with other functional areas to accomplish objectives

• Attend to detail while maintaining a big picture orientation

Education/Previous Experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related degree and 5 years of relevant experience or combination of education, training and experience

Requirements

• Possess strong analytical skills

• Be able to multi-task

• Be self-motivated, have natural curiosity

• Work well in team environment

• Exhibit excellent interpersonal skills

• Involvement in process improvement projects

Preferences

• Experience with fixed income structured securities

• Experience with derivatives

• Experience with FX