NY Middle Office Ops

The primary responsibility of this role will be to serve as a liaison between Client's Portfolio Managers, Trading, other support and control areas internally and broker dealers, custodian banks and external 3rd party providers. The individual will be responsible for day-to-day trade support and oversight of Client's managed accounts. The individual will be working with the management team to define efficiency enhancements, risk mitigation, document development, monitor and assist with overall implementations for new business initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Daily review of trades executed for client portfolios and funds across domestic and international product types.
• Perform post trade matching processing.
• Interact with custodian banks for trade notification as well as portfolio administration related functions (reconciliations, corporate action processing, acats, dwac, onboarding / deboarding, etc).
• Resolve trade discrepancies with banks and brokers.
• Perform additional daily position and transaction exception review and resolution for recons between multiple order management, accounting and custody systems.
• Perform month end attestation reporting for pending risk such as fails, trade errors and aged reconciliation items.
• Work with all functional areas to ensure counterparty static data records are maintained.
• Ability to function as the key point of contact for internal clients (Portfolio Managers, Trading, Legal and Compliance and other functional areas within the firm) as well as external clients (custodian banks, accounting vendors, broker dealers, auditors and underlying clients) for all operational related topics.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree, preferably within Business Administration, Economics, Finance or Business equivalent from an accredited four-year institution.
• Three to five years of industry experience required, buy-side Asset Management preferred.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of all product types with a strong focus on Global, Emerging Market and FX products.
• Preferable system knowledge - Investor Tools Perform, Aladdin, Charles River, DTCC and CTM applications.
• Advance computer literacy with proficiency in Microsoft Office products.
• Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to demonstrate sound judgment to execute solutions.
• Risk oriented mindset and control awareness to apply to current operating environments.
• Ability to identify and escalate potential or actual trade issues or errors that may cause financial, regulatory or reputational harm.
• Self-starter and team oriented with an ability to initiate ideas and implement solutions to projects with minimal supervision.