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Job Ref: 14744
Salary: $70000 – $78000
Operations Assistant (Hybrid)
Located in Manhattan. hybrid schedule requiring at least three days in the office per week.
Base salary $70,000 – $78,000 + OT + eligibility for discretionary bonus based on qualitative performance measures.
Experience/Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent work experience.
• 2-3 years of experience in a buy-side asset management, or equivalent sell-side experience in trade confirmations, settlements, and collateral operations.
• Strong knowledge of domestic and global Fixed Income required. Equity securities/instruments knowledge helpful.
• Strong skills and knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Familiarity with custodian banks’ portal and CTM for trade matching and settlement.
• Knowledge of portfolio accounting systems (e.g. Eagle Investment Systems) and order management systems (e.g. Bloomberg AIM)
• Ability to work 9:00am – 5:30PM, with flexibility to work overtime as needed.
Essential Duties/Function:
• Confirm all daily trades; resolve any discrepancy with the counterparties; confirm all aspects of trades via various sources and ensure prior day settlement.
• Perform daily collateral management of TBA in accordance with MSFTA including exposure review, collateral valuation, monthly interest calculations, and communicating with counterparties for margin calls.
• Reconcile cash balances between internal accounting system and custodian banks.• Check daily price and enter daily rates and benchmarks in the accounting system.
• Monitor and check any irregularities for funds’ daily and monthly performance reports.
• Prepare proxy, corporate action, and class action notices for front office.
• Verify future variation margin statements.
• Support trade processing, confirmation, and settlement of various derivative products such as Swaps and CDS;support daily collateral management of derivative products in accordance with ISDA/CSA.
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