Senior Associate – OTC Valuations/Pricing &DWAK
| Company | SS&C |
|---|---|
| Location | South Orange, NJ, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $61000 – $90000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, mathematics, accounting related discipline
- 2+ years’ experience in Valuations or similar field
- Basic to intermediate knowledge of financial markets and behavior of financial instruments, including equity, options, fixed income and/or OTC derivatives products.
- Proficiency in MS Excel functions and ability to work with large amounts of data.
- Strong analytical, organizational, verbal and written communications skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple tight client deadlines.
- Proactive team player, flexible, dependable, professional attitude, ability to deal with senior management
Responsibilities
- Performing valuations control functions, including but not limited to: Provide oversight for pricing procedures relating to client’s daily/monthly net asset value calculation and internal reporting
- Conduct analytical review across a broad range of products, including Options, FX, Equity, Fixed income, Swaps, Credit Derivatives, Derivatives Options and/or Hard to Value Securities
- Analysis of pricing discrepancies including valuation tolerance exceptions, stale prices, inadequate pricing support
- Managing price challenge process with third-party pricing suppliers
- Working with clients to resolve potentially mis-priced assets and/or unsubstantiated prices
- Presentation of material discrepancies and findings to clients’ valuations committee or equivalent authority
- Ad hoc analysis to respond to clients’ valuations committee queries
- Conducting periodic due diligence assessment of market data providers
- Conducting periodic statistical analysis to assess changes to price tolerance thresholds by product type
- Responsible for conducting portfolio testing using multiple price sources to help clients make vendor selections
- Build excellent client relationships by proactively giving periodic valuations update and provide supporting to adopt valuation governance and procedures that reflect industry best practices
- Developing business requirements for technology solutions to automating production processes
- Contributing to management information analysis and reporting
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.