Senior Analyst - Hedge Fund Trade Operations

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 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

Senior Associate, Operations

Locations: Dublin, OH| Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

SS&C Technologies is the world’s largest independent hedge fund and private equity administrator, as well as the largest mutual fund transfer agency. SS&C’s unique business model combines end-to-end expertise across financial services operations with proprietary software and solutions to service even the most demanding customers in the financial services and healthcare industries.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

• 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

What You Will Bring:

• Undergraduate degree; preferably with a concentration in finance, economics, or related discipline
• 2-4 of relevant work experience.
• 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 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
• Ability to work both independently and within a team
• 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
• 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

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

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Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.