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Hybrid Investment Operations Analyst
Posted 4 months ago
About the role
- Investment Operations Analyst at Cascade Asset Management responsible for global investment operations. Ensuring accurate execution of day-to-day operations across diverse asset types in a dynamic team environment.
Responsibilities
- Ensure seamless confirmation and settlement of trade activities with counterparties and custodians, leveraging systems such as Blackrock’s Aladdin, CTM, Acadia, and other industry tools
- Validate, confirm, and instruct initial margin and variation margin (IM/VM) margin call activity related to bilateral and cleared over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange-traded-derivatives (ETD) positions
- Manage Prime Broker activity including validation of risk margin calculations and posting of sufficient collateral
- Ensure accuracy of cash and investment positions within the Investment Book of Record (IBOR)
- Setup and maintain critical reference data and asset information across all asset classes, including publics, privates, and derivatives
- Interface directly with the trading desk, legal, and other internal/external teams to facilitate issue resolution
- Complete timely new account and market request activities within internal and external systems
- Effectuate changes from corporate or class actions, validating, communicating, and processing updates to systems
- Mentor junior staff, facilitating operational excellence and helping foster a culture of continuous learning
- Identify and assess risks across the trade lifecycle and escalate accordingly to management
- Develop and implement training and educational materials for new hires on core responsibilities; participate in knowledge sharing and learning opportunities
- Support the definition, collection, and reporting of operational metrics tied to data quality and operational excellence
- Collaborate on critical initiatives, process improvement roadmaps, and innovative ideas to improve service delivery and standards
- Provide project support in collaboration with other teams
Requirements
- 2+ years of financial services or securities experience required, preferably within a middle or back-office investment operations role
- Undergraduate degree preferably in finance, accounting, economics or related field; CFA a plus
- Basic understanding of fixed income and equity markets, foreign exchange (FX), derivatives, and collateral management
- Ability to multitask and balances priorities against ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
- Possesses a keen eye for details, superlative accuracy, with a no-tolerance approach for data inaccuracy
- Driven by process efficiencies and system improvement; approaches day-to-day operational data optimization with passion
- Able to present ideas and plans clearly, using available resources, in order to foster understanding across a multitude of stakeholders at various seniority levels
- Applies statistical and graphical techniques to raw data to discover useful information. Clearly drafts documents, reports, and presentation materials
- Proficiency in Excel required
- Expertise with SQL and VBA strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to learn new applications/systems quickly with previous Aladdin experience preferred
- Demonstrated understanding of the project management lifecycle
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Outstanding interpersonal skills with an empathic style, improving partnership and cross-group collaboration skills
Benefits
- A generous annual performance-based discretionary bonus program
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