Hybrid Senior Associate, Alternative Investment Services Centralized Pricing Team

at State Street

• Job title: Senior Associate, Alternative Investment Services Centralized Pricing Team
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $52,000 - $94,120 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Swift, VBA
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sacramento, United States

About the role

• Senior Associate handling daily tasks and client deliverables in Shared Services. Working with team to ensure correct trade capture and client support for financial services.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day tasks and ensure client deliverables are completed and accurate.
• Liaise with client regarding ad hoc issues, establish and maintain relationships with client, vendors and various SST service teams
• Co-ordinate system enhancements or new requirements on behalf of the team.
• Responsible for the co-ordination of system testing and sign off.
• Engage with multiple stakeholders in managing strategic projects that bring cohesive end-to-end solutions to our clients.
• Strategically look to customize our service offering in a way that optimizes the proposed operating model.
• Supporting the Shared Services team lead in their role.
• Ensure lead is kept up to date with relevant issues, escalating problems to the manager as they arise.
• Involved in new client take-on, initialization of funds, new team building, etc.
• People management – Interviewing, perform staff appraisals; address any staff performance issues, etc.
• Manage training needs of team, ensure training gaps are identified and addressed.

Requirements

• In depth knowledge of some/all of the following products: Equity, Futures, Options, Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives (IRS, CDS, TRS, etc)
• Experience interfacing with security valuation agents like Markit PV, BVAL, ICE Data, JPM Pricing Direct
• Knowledge of trade order flow, security life-cycle events (settlements, corporate actions), SWIFT messaging and cash wire processing required.
• IT Literate – VBA experience a plus
• Strong verbal, analytical and written communication skills
• Experience with Advent Geneva Platform advantageous
• Experience working in a virtual team environment
• Degree in Finance or Business related area
• At least 3 years of middle office/operations experience preferred

Benefits

• retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
• insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
• paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
• access to our Employee Assistance Program
• incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards
• eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans