Operations Analyst
Operations Analyst
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- Permanent
- US-New York-New York City
- OPERATION PROCESSING
We have an excellent career opportunity for an Operations Analyst based in our New York office. The primary role of the Operations Analyst is to oversee post trade activities. This individual will serve as a primary contact for Portfolio Managers when any issues arise from the entering of the transaction into the accounting system to the settlement of the transaction.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a liaison between Portfolio Managers, BNP Securities Services, counterparties, and custodians when any issues arise on a transaction.
- Ensure prompt settlement of equity, fixed income, and derivative (FX’s, swaps, futures, and repo) products.
- Trade modifications.
- Monitor OTC confirmations, sign and exercise of FX Options.
- Manage the transaction life cycle of futures, ensuring proper give up and commission rates.
- Review any transactions that are held up in compliance and determine proper course of action.
- Work directly with business and technology teams to ensure supportability for front and back-office applications.
- Constant review of Trade Support processes and ensure operational documentation is kept up to date.
- Back up collateral management team when required.
- Provide Ad Hoc support to Portfolio Managers and traders to resolve outstanding issues
Role requirements: qualifications & experience
- 0 -2 years of relevant work experience, prior experience in financial services preferred.
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics or a related discipline.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills (Outlook, Excel, and Word).
- Intellectually curious with a passion for financial markets and investments.
- Analytical skills: identifies all aspects of a subject and examines them in a critical way to construct a broad point of view.
- Accuracy: constantly attentive to the precision and thoroughness of the information sent and to the quality of the work; ensures that errors are minimized.
- Results-Driven: seeks to achieve the objectives set within the defined timeframe, by acting with tenacity, and by balancing costs and benefits.
- Taking Initiative works proactively and independently, implementing work processes, ideas and solutions.
- Organizational skills: Sets priorities, plans actions and methodically monitors progress by coordinating activities and resources in the best way possible.
- Communication skills: expresses messages, both verbally and written, in an effective, organized way, which is appropriate to the audience being addressed.
- Teamwork: knows how to work in a team and / or across teams.
- Conduct:
- Be a role model, supporting and fostering a culture of good conduct
- Demonstrate proactivity, transparency, and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks
- Consider the implications of your actions on colleagues, partners, and clients before making decisions and escalate issues to your manager when unsure.
What’s in it for you
Your engagement to unlock your potential and deliver high performance will be the driving force that will enable you to benefit from all that BNPP AM has to offer. Culturally, we are more human than corporate so while high performance and strong expertise is a given, we value trust, empathy, and empowerment.
In return, we can offer you things that money cannot buy:
- Dynamic career opportunities across the globe
- Volunteering initiatives to support our local communities and connect with our colleagues
- The opportunity to contribute to our award-winning Sustainability efforts and join our community of Future Makers
- Access to a robust wellbeing program including mental health support and resources
- An award-winning online learning and development platform
- Hybrid working
- A diverse and inclusive working environment where you can be your authentic self
Physical presence in office is an essential function of this position. This role has the flexibility of being hybrid, consisting of an in office and remote working component.
The expected starting salary range for this position in New York City is between $75,000 to $85,000 annually. Actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.
Our firm is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.