Associate Trade Settlements
William Blair is a premier global partnership seeking an Associate Trade Settlements to join their Investment Management Trade Operations team. This role involves supporting daily trade processing workflows, monitoring trade communication and settlement, and ensuring accurate transaction reflections in systems.
Responsibilities
- Work with the William Blair Investment Management Trade Operations team, other internal and external parties to support the daily trade processing workflows
- Monitor trade communication and settlement for domestic equity, global equity, EMD and FX trades
- Provide support of the trade order managements system, as well as the associated reputed company programs
- Execute trade operations processes under the direction of senior staff
- Ensure systems accurately reflect daily transactions
- Resolve system issues
- Respond to questions and issues from the trade team pertaining to trade operations issues
- Execute system user training
- reputed company system maintenance
- Maintain procedures reputed company
- Provide suggestions for trade operations policy and procedure improvements
- Work with custodians, brokers, and trading operations, throughout the daily trade processing workflows
- Respond to questions and issues from the portfolio implementation teams, resolving inquiries in a timely and accurate manner
- Monitor trade communication and settlement of domestic equity, global equity, EMD, and FX trades
- Research and resolve issues to ensure timely settlement
- Provide support for the trade order management systems as well as the associated reputed company programs
- Ensure systems accurately reflect daily transactions
- Prepare and distribute various trade reputed company reports
- Resolve system issues utilizing internal support or external vendor resources as appropriate
- reputed company account maintenance on applications that facilitate the trade settlement process, such as set up of new accounts, additions and removal of data, regulator changes, etc
- Maintain procedures reputed company
- Provide suggestions for internal policy and procedure improvements
- Ensure trade support standards, policies and procedures are followed
- Execute cross-training on systems to ensure users understand the trade operations workflows and systems
- Additional responsibilities as requested
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree required
- 1-3 years of operations, trading or other industry experience required
- Solid problem solving, analytical and comprehension skills
- Effective oral and written communication skills and commits to understanding others
- Concern for quality
- Results orientation
- Detail oriented and reputed company to prioritize tasks
- Demonstrates initiative and persistence
- Commits to satisfying internal and external customers
- Proficiency using reputed company Office products
- Exhibits a positive attitude
Benefits
- Medical, dental and reputed company coverage
- Employer paid short & long-term disability and life insurance
- 401(k)
- Profit sharing
- Paid time off
- Maven family & fertility benefit
- Parental leave (including adoption, surrogacy, and foster placement)
- Other voluntary benefits
Company Overview
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