Elevate your career in a growing firm driving portfolio company success. Lead impactful reconciliation processes and collaborate across dynamic asset management teams. Enhance operational efficiency through innovative solutions.
Senior Associate – Reconciliation
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Job Description
Overview
- Lead reconciliation processes for investment cash, positions, and transactions, ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial records.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance data quality and operational efficiency within a dynamic asset management environment.
- Drive issue resolution and process improvements to strengthen controls and support compliance requirements.
- Develop reporting dashboards and analytics to provide transparency into reconciliation health and operational risks.
- Act as a subject-matter expert for reconciliation processes, supporting fund launches and custodial transitions.
- Enhance workflows through automation and process re-engineering to optimize operational efficiency.
- Contribute to team training initiatives and maintain detailed process documentation for knowledge sharing.
- Support portfolio accuracy by resolving discrepancies and collaborating with investment and trading teams.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
- Lead daily reconciliation of cash balances, positions, and investment activity across systems and counterparties.
- Analyze and resolve complex breaks related to settlements, income, corporate actions, and alternative investments.
- Monitor data flows between trading, accounting, and portfolio management systems for accuracy.
- Perform root-cause analyses and implement sustainable solutions in collaboration with technology teams.
- Strengthen controls and contribute to audit, compliance, and regulatory readiness efforts.
- Support new fund launches, custodial transitions, and instrument onboarding as a reconciliation expert.
- Enhance workflows through automation and tooling improvements to optimize processes.
- Develop KPIs and analytics for operational risk transparency and reconciliation health.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
- 4–7+ years of experience in investment operations, reconciliation, fund accounting, or asset management.
- Strong knowledge of investment products, including fixed income, structured credit, CLOs, and private market assets.
- Proficiency in reconciliation, accounting, and portfolio management systems; familiarity with Aladdin, Geneva, Sentry, or FIS preferred.
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, and macros.
- Proficiency in SQL or willingness to develop advanced data-querying skills.
- Exceptional problem-solving, analytical thinking, and stakeholder management abilities.
- Highly organized and self-driven, capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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