Trading & Portfolio Implementation Associate

Description

At Sunflower Bank, N.A., we’re experiencing great growth. Since our founding in 1892, we've been committed to serving our communities and supporting the team members who make it all possible. As a full-service financial institution, we offer a full range of relationship-focused services to meet personal, business, and wealth-management financial objectives. Creating Possibility is not just our mission, it’s what we do every day for clients and associates.

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Sunflower Bank, N.A./First Foundation Advisors is looking for an energetic, highly motivated individual to fill the position of a full-time Trading & Portfolio Implementation Associate at our Irvine, CA location.

The salary range for this position is $78,000 to $113,000 depending on knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, and location.

The Trading & Portfolio Implementation Associate will be part of a team that serves as the hub of construction, optimization, and trading of FFA global portfolios. They will collaborate with client-facing teams to manage, monitor, and create better solutions for implementation and execute those solutions. They will gain proficiency across a broad range of investment mandates and asset classes, overseeing portfolio-level activities including trading.

Functions may include portfolio construction, restrictions management, monitoring asset exposures, trading and allocations, managing client-specific requests, and tax management. The Associate will initiate trades/rebalances and monitor the portfolios on an ongoing basis. This role is a crossover between trading and implementation; functions include day-to-day system maintenance workflows, reporting, trading, modeling, and settlement of fixed income, equity, and mutual funds trades, as well as trade reconciliation and post-execution allocation.

• Employee is responsible for adherence to all compliance programs and the completion of all required and assigned training by established due dates
• Understands and complies with the requirements of all laws and regulations applicable to the position
• Execution of equity, mutual funds, and fixed-income trades as needed/directed by senior traders
• Implementation of portfolio allocations in accordance with FFA’s investment philosophy, process, and tactical portfolio positioning via systematic processes and protocol
• Invest new accounts per investment parameters and risk profiles
• Manage and organize the trading inbox – alerting the team of priority items and filing completed items
• Trading wrap program accounts - organize blocks and enter orders for portfolio positioning. Complete analysis and resolution of special account trading situations
• Participate in regularly scheduled account review with client-facing teams to stay current on the investment process, positioning, trades, and alignment of portfolio construction to FFA-approved models and asset allocations.
• Implement investment decisions and facilitate the investment process through model management, risk/dispersion reporting, and trade proposals for model adherence.
• Learn and leverage new tools in the order management system, working with programmers to advocate for necessary development and acting as a liaison to end-users.
• Model Global trades for multiple strategies, including calculation of shares/weights, following the necessary steps for account exclusions due to cash, trade size, and restrictions, and support for allocations.
• Aid with administrative trading tasks – filing trade errors, maintaining responses from the sales team, and working with new brokers to complete necessary onboarding paperwork.
• Running and compiling reports:
  Master Trade Blotter, Global Trade Reports, TCA Reports, etc.
• Reconcile soft dollar commissions from brokers in conjunction with Account Services and Billing
• Record and update trading processes for compliance and future reference
• Participate and contribute to departmental projects and initiatives
• Processing after/pre-market trading procedures - reconciliation across multiple trading platforms, contra-brokers, and custodians, as well as following up on back-office settlement…