Our client, a global asset management firm, is seeking an FX Operations Analyst to join their investment operations team. This individual will play a key role in supporting the post-trade lifecycle for foreign exchange products, ensuring the timely reconciliation, processing, and monitoring of trades across a diverse portfolio of FX instruments. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting FX operations within an asset manager, hedge fund, investment bank, or financial services firm. This is an excellent opportunity for an analytical, detail-oriented professional who thrives in a fast-paced investment management environment.
Responsibilities include:
- Perform daily cash, position, and trade reconciliations across a broad range of FX products.
- Investigate and resolve reconciliation breaks, trade exceptions, and operational discrepancies in a timely manner.
- Support the capture, validation, and processing of FX trades, ensuring accurate booking and settlement.
- Monitor the full trade lifecycle, including expiries, settlements, rollovers, resets, cash flows, and other lifecycle events.
- Work closely with Trading, Technology, Operations, Treasury, and counterparties to resolve operational issues and ensure seamless trade processing.
- Maintain trade records, account data, and reference data to support accurate operational reporting.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, automate manual processes, and enhance operational controls.
- Participate in system enhancements, user acceptance testing (UAT), and new product implementations.
- Maintain operational procedures and documentation while supporting business continuity and risk management initiatives.
- Assist with ad hoc projects and process optimization efforts across the investment operations team.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of investment management, fund operations, or FX operations experience within an asset manager, hedge fund, investment bank, or financial services organization.
- Experience supporting FX Spot, FX Forwards, Non-Deliverable Forwards (NDFs), FX Swaps, and/or Exotic Options.
- Strong understanding of the FX trade lifecycle, including trade capture, settlement, reconciliations, and lifecycle event processing.
- Experience with Bloomberg AIM, Orchestrade, Geneva, or similar investment management and trade processing platforms is preferred.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across Trading, Technology, Operations, and other business teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field preferred.
Pay: $40/hr - $50/hr
