Job Title: (SMA) Oversight Analyst
Type: Temp
Start Date: asap
Date: one year
Location: Salt Lake City UT
1-2 years experience
Responsibilities and Qualifications
This is a highly collaborative role and requires the capability to work effectively with a diverse range of professionals both internally and externally, covering a wide variety of products and functions. The main areas of responsibility will be:
- Ensure accounting data accuracy and provide account policy oversight in order to create a controlled environment for investment management processes
- Perform daily cash forecasting in multi-currency portfolios to include overdraft monitoring
- Provide Trading desk support to include ad-hoc queries as well as ongoing business initiatives
- Coordinate across portfolio managers on cash funding, withdrawals, trading requests, and account attribute changes
- Review account-level metrics (i.e., reconciling items on cash/position reconciliations, daily corporate actions, NAV reconciliations, failing trades, standard/non-standard reporting deliverables) as defined by operating standards and research, escalate, remediate exceptions as appropriate
- Partner with the Asset Management and Consumer Wealth (CWM) teams to facilitate the operational design of a strategic platform to support the Separately Managed Account (SMA) and CWM business and new market opportunities
- Help drive process improvements and efficiency, budgeting and cost allocation to various revenue-producing desks
- Assist in the launch of new products and instruments
- Process and control analysis to ensure effective oversight and risk management
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum of 1-2 years experience in asset management or a related field such as accountancy, middle office functions
- Risk management focus
- Attention to detail with a sense of urgency is a must
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as web-based applications
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Be a highly collaborative, team-oriented, and strong consensus builder
- Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience in Operations and/or Financial Services Industry
- Demonstrate ability to partner across product groups, regions, and functional responsibilities
- Be a strategic thinker, possesses strong facilitation and data gathering skills
- Attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure and to provide practical solutions
- Understanding of the product lifecycle and user experience for the distribution of products on a digital platform
- Technically adapt to working with Business Intelligence and low code tools such as Alteryx, Tableau and Robotic Processing Automation (RPA)