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Investment Operations Analyst/Associate
Company | Ethic |
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Location | New York, NY, USA |
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Salary | $95000 – $120000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant experience in investment operations with risk and control experience at a registered broker dealer or asset manager.
- Solid understanding of how reconciliations work, and ability to create a manual reconciliation as needed in Excel.
- Analytical and detail-oriented problem solver, constantly learning and applying knowledge to optimize processes, systems, controls and improve client experience.
- Comfortable escalating critical issues as they arise and ensuring the appropriate parties are involved and aware of potential risks.
- Great communicator, able to explain operational details to a variety of stakeholders from business development to engineers to advisor clients.
Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate portfolio accounting data through daily position, transaction and cost basis reconciliations in coordination with third party vendor tools and services.
- Execute on daily middle office functions including trading execution controls and reconciliations in partnership with current team members.
- Act as a key point of contact for custodial statements and performance reporting inquiries in partnership with investments, product, engineering and investment strategy.
- Support relationships with custodians, brokers, portfolio accounting and other service providers.
- Ensure new clients and accounts are accurately onboarded and configured in systems for trading, proxy voting, billing, and platform reporting.
- Manage corporate action and electronic proxy voting on behalf of clients.
- Manage client billing process, in coordination with accounting team, including generation, processing, and reconciliation.
- Partner with Portfolio Managers to analyze trading and workflow; suggest improvements to internal processes and services provided to clients.
- Partner with Product and Engineering Teams to define areas of development for operational processes and controls, including defining requirements and testing.
- Partner with Client Team to understand Ethic client experience and how to more effectively serve Advisor clients.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using SS&C Advent’s APX software is a plus.