Job responsibilities
- Contribute to ongoing developments of the pricing control process and resolve issues escalated by the team.
- Create, execute, and review control queries and reports; distribute exceptions and outliers to the client for review.
- Create and maintain a positive and collaborative work environment for the team.
- Leverage industry experience to identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and reduce risk that may cause Net Asset Value impacts and money loss for the company.
- Work accurately under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Liaise with clients, vendors, auditors, teams( internally and externally) while responding to inquiries and conducting pricing research in a prompt and professional manner.
- Cross train new hires and current employees on new tools and specific client processes.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Two plus years asset pricing or fund accounting experience with knowledge of impact of pricing to the Net Asset Value of a Mutual Fund.
- Strong pricing knowledge of financial instruments such as fixed income, equities and derivatives and meeting strict NASDAQ deadlines.
- Strong knowledge of industry activities such as trade halts, corporate actions and index tracking.
- Strong organizational skills and experience maintaining proper documentation for audit purposes.
- Self-motivated and proactive with the proven ability to work accurately and under pressure to meet deadlines both independently and in multiple team structures.
- Computer proficient with strong knowledge of desktop software applications (Access, Word, Macros, Excel, etc.).
- Bachelor degree
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Previous Team Leadership experience and working with multiple vendors, clients and shared services both internally and externally.
- Experience with process improvements through focus on efficiency increase and risk reduction.
- High aptitude for learning new technologies.
- Bachelor degree with preference in Finance, Accounting, or Economics.