Job Summary:
We are seeking a Financial Support Associate to join our team. In this role, you will provide critical support to the Capital Markets trading desk by applying your knowledge of finance and financial instruments.
Your primary responsibilities will include trade capture processes, operational aspects of daily Capital Markets activity, and managing internal processes and applications that support funding, hedging, and investment activities.
You will work closely with Liquidity Managers to execute money market investment transactions, assist with debt issuance, and support hedging and trading activities.
In addition, you will be responsible for entering and reviewing transactions against source documentation, ensuring accuracy and completeness of daily trade activity through end-of-day control processes, and identifying and resolving discrepancies in a timely manner.
This is an exciting opportunity to apply your analytical and problem-solving skills in a dynamic environment. You will have the chance to partner with internal teams to enhance data validation and reconciliation processes, define solutions to meet processing, reporting, and servicing requirements, and drive process improvements to strengthen compliance, controls, efficiency, and system integration.
You will also perform testing on system updates/implementations to ensure trade data integrity and accurate data capture in downstream systems, compile ALCO and working group meeting packages, prepare management reports, host meetings, and take minutes as needed.
This role requires a strong attention to accuracy and detail, ability to work and thrive in a multi-tasking environment, and high motivation and initiative to independently pursue assignments, responsibilities, and support requests to a logical and final solution.
Key Skills:
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
* Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
* Two to four years' experience in banking, treasury, capital markets, or business analyst systems in the financial services industry
* Working knowledge of fixed income and derivatives instruments preferred
* Experience with Capital Markets systems (Calypso, Bloomberg, Microsoft Office) is a plus
* Proficient in various programming languages SQL (PL/SQL, T-SQL), VBA, and Python