Summary
A leading global alternative asset manager specializing in private equity, credit, and real estate.
Company Information:
We are a global team of alternative asset managers committed to delivering uncommon value to our investors and shareholders. We seek a Trade Support Operations Analyst to join our Global Operations team, providing end-to-end middle office support across private equity, credit, and real estate. Responsibilities include trade confirmation, settlement, booking, life-cycle event support, and cash projection for various funds and managed accounts.
Job Description:
- Responsible for trade capture, trade blotter reconciliations and resolution of exceptions
- Responsible for daily reconciliation of cash and position
- Respond to margin/collateral calls and setup wires to facilitate movement of cash / securities as well as collateral optimization.
- Reviewing, allocating and confirming bond, equity, options, OTC trades with counterparties in DTC/Euroclear/ICE/MarkitWire/GTSS. CTM/ALERT
- Send out daily trade fails and unmatched report to front office
- Confirm and settle trades with custodians, resolve failing and unmatched trades
- Look at existing processes and relationships and make suggestions on how they could be changed to improve end to end operational support.
- Work on projects relating to system/process enhancements and re-engineering of operational workflows.
- Responsible for ad-hoc requests (i.e. Equity unit split, PIPE settlement processing, Physical settlements etc.).
Requirements / Qualifications:
- Undergraduate Degree with 2-3 years of relevant experience
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; prior experience sitting with traders a plus
- Knowledge of DTC/Euroclear, Bloomberg, ICELink, ALERT/CTM, SWIFT, MW, TriOptima
- Experience with fixed income, derivatives, equity products, FX, and trade life cycle management
- Ability to coordinate and work across operational teams on system enhancements
- Product knowledge exposure: Credit Default Swaps / CDS Options / Credit TR, Interest rate products (interest rate swaps, swaptions etc.), FX products (FX SPOTs, Forwards, Vanilla, and exotic options), Equity/Options (listed and OTC) and Equity TRS, Bank Debt / Term Loans / Revolvers / Middle Market Loans / Commercial Real Estate a plus, Corporate Bonds, Financing Instruments (REPOs, Bond Forward etc.), Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required; proficiency in VBA is a plus, Experience with VPM, Everest, think Folio is a plus, Project management experience is a plus
