Asset & Wealth Management Operations - Retail SMA Oversight-Associate
JOB SUMMARY AND RESPONSBILITIES
This is a highly technical role and as such requires the capability to work effectively with a diverse range of professionals both internally and externally, covering a wide variety of products and functions to solve for operational efficiency. The main areas of responsibility will be:
- As part of this role, the associate will partner with the Asset & Wealth Management teams to create and facilitate the operational design of a strategic platform to support the Retail Separately Managed Account (SMA).
- Involve in day-to-day BAU activities (funding, onboarding & review of exceptions for Retail SMA accounts)
- Understand the daily BAU activities, Identify and suggest controls and perform oversight activities
- Leverage business intelligence tools and information systems to create new tools and workflows while ensuring accounting data accuracy and provide account policy oversight to create a controlled environment for investment management processes
- Create daily SLA metrics and forecasting across our main business to track and monitor our KPIs and KRIs
- Scalability analysis of workflow cost drivers and trends to help drive process improvements and efficiency
- Coordinate across portfolio managers on cash funding, withdrawals, trading requests and account attribute changes
- Process and control analysis to ensure effective oversight and risk management
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Previous experience in Operations and/or Financial Services Industry, preferably in Asset management
- Extensive understanding of the product lifecycle and user experience for the distribution of Fixed Income, Equity, and other similar financial products on a digital platform
- Practical and technical knowledge of fund accounting
- Understanding of accounting impact across different types of lifecycle events
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and proficient in PowerPoint, Word, and other MS Office Suites
- Be highly collaborative, team-oriented, and strong consensus builder
- Proven excellence in risk management and focus
- Ability to partner across product groups, regions, and functional responsibilities
- Ability to effectively communicate across all levels, both written and oral
- High attention to detail with a sense of urgency a must
- Bachelor s degree required
- Experienced in partnering and managing teams during high growth phases
- Strategic and creative thinker, with strong facilitation and data gathering skills, able to recommend tactical and long-term solutions
- Ability to drive projects & daily BAU through execution with minimal oversight
- Understanding of Taxlot accounting and hands on experience on accounting systems like Invest1, APL and Geneva
- Technically adept in working with Business Intelligence and low code tools such as Alteryx, Tableau and Robotics Processing Automation (RPA)
PREFFERED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experienced in partnering and managing teams during high growth phases
- Strategic and creative thinker, with strong facilitation and data gathering skills, able to recommend tactical and long-term solutions
- Ability to drive projects & daily BAU through execution with minimal oversight
- Understanding of Taxlot accounting and hands on experience on accounting systems like Invest1, APL and Geneva
- Technically adept in working with Business Intelligence and low code tools such as Alteryx, Tableau and Robotics Processing Automation (RPA)
