Associate, Trade Operations

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Job Title: Associate, Trade Operations

Location: Dublin, OH (hybrid) or Union, NJ (hybrid)

New Grads welcome to apply!

About the Role

Trade operations is a functional group that is responsible for providing middle office services to Institutional Money Managers and Global Hedge Fund clients. The team works in a fast-paced environment, and liaises with traders, brokers, and other interested parties, in order to confirm and settle trades on time, while completing daily deliverables, and fulfilling other client requests including processing of investment and fee related wires.

Why Join SS&C

SS&C combines proprietary technology with deep industry expertise to support complex financial and health care operations. Our teams design, implement, and operate solutions that help clients manage data, automate processes, and scale their businesses with confidence.

You will work with industry experts, modern platforms, and evolving technologies, gaining exposure to real-world operational challenges and large-scale enterprise environments.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Work with clients, brokers, custodians and prime brokers to resolve any issues, and to ensure on time confirmation and settlement of trades, FX spots and forwards, and other transactions
• Research market standards and practices, in order to ensure stored client and broker data is up to date, and outgoing SWIFT messages are in compliance with the latest best practices
• Inform and instruct the necessary parties of ad-hoc and daily cash and security movements related to collateral and variation margin movements
• Identify potential issues, and escalate to the appropriate parties, both internal and external, in a timely manner
• Maintain all team procedures to ensure they are updated, completed, and maintained across all clients and processes
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Research and inform impacted parties of any upcoming market and regulatory requirements and changes
• Identify processes or other areas in need of improvement, and work with technology and the other relevant parties to develop, test, and execute the necessary changes
• Understand and mitigate risk associated with late settlement of cash and securities transactions including market penalties, buy-ins, claims, etc.
• Perform adequate due diligence to completely resolve all issues, in a timely manner, in order to avoid any financial or reputational impact
• Compile and prepare wire transfer instructions for fund expenses and investments in accordance with fund manager instructions
• Maintain and update vendor and counterparty wire instructions

Required Experience

• Undergraduate degree; preferably with a concentration in finance, economics, or related discipline
• Self-starter with excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to efficiently prioritize daily processes, ad-hoc requests, and any issues escalated by clients or other parties
• Intermediate or higher Microsoft Excel proficiency
• Ability to communicate professionally and effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
• High level of computer literacy, and capability to learn new systems quickly
• Team player mentality with the ability to still work independently
• Ability to comprehend the importance of data security and comply with firm wide procedures
• Knowledge of financial products such as equities, options, futures, mutual funds, collateral, and bonds

What Sets You Apart

• Experience and/or familiarity with market vendor products, such as, Bloomberg, DTCC, Omgeo, etc.
• Familiarity with SWIFT messaging
• Interest in learning about foreign markets and global market practices

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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