Institutional Investment Operations Associate

In this role, you will:

• Provide operational and customer support for lifecycle tasks for institutional trades

• Assist with client account onboarding, input and monitoring of cash payments, customer service, funding operations, custodial operations, securities settlement services, asset servicing structured loan operations, general ledger reconciliation and work to resolve confirmation and ISDA related issues

• Assist in gathering data to support resolution of issues

• Receive direction from manager and exercise judgment within defined parameters of the area while developing understanding of various functions, policies and procedures

• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ months of Institutional Investment Operations experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Relevant work experience of 7 to 8 years

• Understand and implement client's requirement by liaising with internal and external counterparties to ensure seamless transition and onboarding.

• Coordinate and manage tasks across a multi-disciplined team to ensure all operational information relating to an account event is received and systems are set up prior to account trading activity

• Providing effective thought leadership in navigating evolving industry trends, client needs, business growth, financial regulatory landscape and helping to develop solutions to build appropriate architecture

• Oversee BAU and identify process enhancement opportunities

• Request management and delegation to downstream partners

• Support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture

• Working with onshore Client Data teams to effectively manage and process client data requests

• Develop strong working relationships with Trader Management, Sales, Trading Desks, other onboarding teams

• Ensure and Adhere to the Regulatory Reporting standards, policies and procedures

• Become a risk manager by ensuring data integrity and challenging where required

• Engage in opportunities to review processes, analyze information, make decisions and recommendations and implement and monitor procedures

• Independently research and analyze regulatory reporting requirements and other financial documents

• Provide reporting to senior leadership and produce insightful analyses of the business upon request for management

• Preferred Skills-

• Strong Knowledge of the banking regulatory reporting rules and regulations including FINRA, QFC and Dodd Frank regulations

• Understanding of client lifecycle activities, such as corporate actions including merger events

• Ability to independently research and analyze regulatory reporting requirements and other financial documents

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of loan, securities and derivative products

• Advanced knowledge of trade processing life-cycle

• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft applications including Excel, Access Database and Tableau

• Excellent teamwork skills

• Strong Analytic ability, with high attention to detail, accuracy and strong problem solving skills

• Ability to communicate (written/verbal) effectively at all organizational levels

• Excellent Interpersonal skills – ability to build relationships

• Ability to plan and organize workload within tight deadlines, meeting day-to-day objectives as well as longer term strategic goals

• Perform analysis of, and make recommendations on functionality/efficiency of established controls and processes to ensure appropriate risk based operational procedures are in place and are meeting regulatory requirements/expectations

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a business-related field is strongly preferred

• Previous experience in Operations and/or Financial Services industry - Relevant work experience of 5+ years in one or a combination of the following: middle office, collateral, documentation, project management, business operations, strategic planning in financial services, regulatory oversight, AML/KYC, US tax regime & compliance and SSI setup and client onboarding

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

• Knowledge and understanding of Excel, PowerPoint, Word and adaptability to other software products

• Ability to research, compile, and perform complex analysis on critical operational data

• Be highly collaborative and team-oriented

• Demonstrate strong analytical and interpersonal skills

• Ability to work with impacted areas to understand complex problems

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment

• Strong multi-tasking abilities in a high performance, high demand environment

• Ability to think strategically, drive consensus and influence decision making