Jobs at Mesirow

Oversee regulatory supervision and compliance across the Wealth Management division. Review new accounts, trading activity, compliance exceptions, communications, advertising, client materials, and employee financial transactions. Develop operational procedures, coordinate with Middle Office and Legal/Compliance, interpret SEC and FINRA requirements, and approve supervisory processes. The role also supports Wealth Advisor teams, investigates potential conflicts or violations, maintains compliance documentation, and communicates brokerage policies.

Develops pre-trade analytics, risk monitoring, P&L reporting, pricing and hedging models for mortgage-backed securities and rates products. Partners with traders and sales to analyze MBS pools, TBA spreads, and interest-rate strategies. Automates data workflows, improves trading infrastructure, conducts quantitative research and backtesting, and uses market analytics platforms to support front-office trading decisions.

Design, operate, and automate hybrid infrastructure across Azure and on-premises hyperconverged environments. Build infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform and Ansible, develop reusable platforms, troubleshoot issues across cloud and infrastructure layers, and embed SRE practices. Partner with application, security, and business teams on resilient architecture, document standards and runbooks, support incident response, and reduce reliance on managed-service providers through automation and monitoring.

Support execution of firmwide social and digital marketing across LinkedIn and Instagram: create, schedule, and publish content; manage Hearsay workflows and compliance approvals; maintain editorial calendars; repurpose content with Creative Services; track and report social/digital metrics; assist paid social, email, and lead-generation campaigns; coordinate projects across marketing teams and support employee advocacy programs.

Lead institutional sales for CMO mortgage products, drive business development, cultivate client relationships, present to institutional investors, exceed revenue targets, represent the firm at client and industry events, and travel as needed to support sales initiatives.

Lead institutional sales for CMBS products, develop and maintain deep client relationships, generate revenue, exceed targets, present to clients, represent firm at events, and travel as needed.

Provide high-touch client service and operational support to financial advisors and high-net-worth clients, including onboarding, account maintenance, asset movements, billing and performance reporting, tax information gathering, CRM maintenance, compliance communication, relationship management, and trade execution/error resolution.

Develop and maintain relationships with high-net-worth clients, provide investment and fiduciary advice, implement and monitor discretionary portfolios and financial plans, and drive business development to onboard new clients.

Provides senior-level administrative support to a financial services management team. Responsibilities include preparing investor reports and presentations, coordinating meetings and travel, managing expense reports and audit confirmations, maintaining client records, supporting business plans and lender reporting, handling confidential information, and managing office supplies and communications.

Lead and grow Mesirow's EMEA institutional sales and trading franchise from London. Build institutional relationships, distribute secondary market bonds and credit products, generate revenue across investment grade, high yield, emerging markets and special situations, and coordinate with traders on executions and market opportunities.

Provide high-level executive support to a C-suite leader and board member, managing complex calendars, travel, correspondence, presentations, events, meetings, expense reporting, and confidential stakeholder communications while supporting firmwide projects and policy implementation.

Provide investment research and data analysis for institutional retirement clients, prepare and review recurring reports, support client calls and ad‑hoc requests, conduct quantitative and qualitative due diligence on funds and trusts, use reporting/research tools, support quarterly reporting cycles, collaborate with Technology and Investment teams, and manage ad‑hoc projects while building client relationships.

Support administrative and operational functions for fiduciary solutions: verify and file client agreements, manage complex billing and invoicing, maintain records, resolve billing issues, perform data entry, and provide status updates to supervisors while completing tasks with minimal supervision.

Support the CIO/Director of Quantitative Research by operating, documenting, and improving quantitative finance processes (asset allocation, capital market assumptions, performance attribution, glide paths, simulation-based optimization). Update client deliverables, develop new quantitative tools using statistical, risk management, and simulation methods, and communicate results to investment professionals to inform policy and investment decisions.

Lead and manage the firms compliance programs including Code of Ethics, AML/KYC review, trade surveillance, marketing review, policy and training development, vendor and technology oversight, regulatory filings, and integration of AI and automation to improve compliance efficiency.

Lead and enhance the firms ERM framework and provide independent oversight of investment and portfolio risks. Identify, assess, monitor, and report strategic, operational, regulatory, technology, and investment risks; develop KRIs and risk appetite metrics; prepare executive and board risk reports; perform stress testing and scenario analysis; and partner with portfolio managers while maintaining independent oversight.

Sell municipal fixed-income products to institutional clients by building long-term relationships, marketing new-issue and inventory securities, coordinating with traders and underwriters, generating revenue, sourcing bond-sale opportunities, providing market intelligence, and participating in business development and client meetings.