Trade & Cash Operations Analyst

Stanford Management Company (SMC), the University’s investment office, invests the Merged Pool, which includes substantially all of the University’s investable endowment assets.  The investment portfolio is designed with the dual goals of preserving the purchasing power of the Endowment for future generations of Stanford students and scholars and enabling a robust annual disbursement to the University’s operating budget.  SMC primarily relies on carefully chosen external partners to select individual securities, allowing Stanford to benefit from specialized knowledge in asset classes that reward superior active management.

SMC is seeking an organized and detail-oriented Trade & Cash Operations Analyst who will report to the Manager, Trade & Cash Operations. This position is critical for facilitating securities transactions and cash movements while providing key investment information to the SMC investment team. The ideal candidate will demonstrate high productivity, meticulous attention to detail, and strong problem-solving skills, with proven experience in equity and fixed income security settlement and cash flow management.

CORE DUTIES*:

Provide constituents with relevant, accurate, and consistent information for investment oversight and decision making.

Provide effective, relevant, and focused management reports and dashboards, and ad-hoc analyses as needed.

Produce cash forecast for daily asset allocation reporting, explaining key fluctuations and changes for use by the Investment Team.

Prepare fund movements for authorization including internal cash transfers, wire set-up, and investment funding. Resolve issues, recognize exceptions and recommend solutions. Facilitate securities transactions, complex securities, settlements, and reconciliations.

Maintain the integrity of accounting and investment data for Merged Pool investments.

Monitor all investment approvals and activity, accurately record activity, and serve as the primary interface with internal and external parties.

Collect data and perform research on details of transactions. Ensure work complies with complex internal policies and external regulations which may require interpretation.

Work as a member of a project team and contribute to change management strategy through communication and collaboration with others.

Serve as a first line resource to brokers and custodian bank; identify and resolve issues.

Interface with key internal and external stakeholders, including exhibiting a strong customer service orientation.
* Other duties may also be assigned

The expected pay range for this position is $92,000 - $120,000 per annum. Core Duties:

Calculate performance and perform structured analysis of results
for marketable and non-marketable investments.

Provide effective, relevant, and focused financial management
reports and dashboards. Identify and investigate discrepancies and
underlying issues in reporting; recognize exceptions, develop solutions
that may require policy changes or development of new reports and/or
dashboards.

Provide portfolio and asset allocation reporting. Run, maintain,
reconcile, review, combine, analyze and validate financial data sets,
utilizing financial databases and key financial information from
multiple systems including Solovis, Bloomberg, and others.

Prepare fund movements for authorization including internal cash
transfers, wire set-up, and investment funding. Resolve issues,
recognize exceptions and recommend solutions.

Process, record, and perform recurring investment accounting
activities and maintain integrity of accounting and investment data for
Merged Pool and School & Department Funds investments.

Collect data and perform research on details of transactions.
Ensure work complies with complex internal policies and…