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Portfolio Analyst - Fixed Income and Derivatives
Purpose of the Role:
Fixed Income Portfolio Administration provides operational investment support to the Portfolio Managers within SSgA. The team support all fixed income product types including derivatives.
Major Responsibilities:
As the key contact point for the Portfolio Management team your daily functions would include but not be limited to:
• Reconciliations.
• Cash Forecasting.
• Verification of Fund Valuations.
• OTC Trade processing including trade confirmations, resets, unwinds, and settlements.
• Collateral Management.
• Maintenance of valuation models.
• Performance calculation and query resolution.
• Investigating and resolving queries from Clients, Performance Analysts, Reconcilers and Portfolio Managers.
Key external interactions will be with custodians, fund administrators, counterparts and other third party providers. Internally interactions would be with fund managers, traders, the reconciliations team, compliance, risk, trade support, legal and client administration.
Portfolio Analysts are expected to be proactive in their position and look to enhance the current processes and procedures within SSgA London. Specific vision is given to strengthening SSgA's controls and minimizing risk.
Job Requirements:
Education and Experience
• Operations experience gained from an investment manager, custodian, prime broker, fund administrator, hedge fund, or investment bank.
• Degree qualified or equivlanet with a financial or analytical discipline preferred.
• Investment Administration Qualification (IAQ) completed or completing considered an advantage.
• Product Experience Desirable: Corporate Bonds, FX spot and forwards, Exchange Traded Futures and Options, Interest Rate Swaps, Currency Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, CDO's, Total Return Swaps, Swaptions, High Yield Debt, Convertible Bonds, Repurchase Agreements.
• Exposure to inflation linked products an advantage.
Skills/ Knowledge
• Analytically minded with strong problem solving skills
• Understanding investment markets and settlement.
• Understanding of product and fund valuation useful.
• Performance measurement experience useful.
• Strong MS Windows applications, specifically Excel.
• Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities to meet internal and external deadlines.
• Ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external clients.
• Willing to assume responsibility and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Exposure to Sungard Front Arena, and Bloomberg is an advantage.
We at SSgA offer our customers the highest possible standards of service and fully support the Financial Services Authority initiative of 'Treating Customers Fairly'.
Portfolio Analyst - Fixed Income and Derivatives (London, Canary Wharf)
State Street is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $16.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration,* and $1.6 trillion under management*, State Street operates in 27 countries and more than 100 geographic markets worldwide.
*As of June 2009
Purpose of the Role:
Fixed Income Portfolio Administration provides operational investment support to the Portfolio Managers within SSgA. The team support all fixed income product types including derivatives.
Major Responsibilities:
As the key contact point for the Portfolio Management team your daily functions would include but not be limited to:
• Reconciliations.
• Cash Forecasting.
• Verification of Fund Valuations.
• OTC Trade processing including trade confirmations, resets, unwinds, and settlements.
• Collateral Management.
• Maintenance of valuation models.
• Performance calculation and query resolution.
• Investigating and resolving queries from Clients, Performance Analysts, Reconcilers and Portfolio Managers.
Key external interactions will be with custodians, fund administrators, counterparts and other third party providers. Internally interactions would be with fund managers, traders, the reconciliations team, compliance, risk, trade support, legal and client administration.
Portfolio Analysts are expected to be proactive in their position and look to enhance the current processes and procedures within SSgA London. Specific vision is given to strengthening SSgA's controls and minimizing risk.
One of our greatest assets is the 27,000 professionals (2000 in the UK) who provide value to our customers around the world by delivering innovative solutions, products and services. In turn, State Street is committed to providing our employees with rewarding careers that deliver value in the form of opportunities, training and development.
Job Requirements:
Education and Experience
• Operations experience gained from an investment manager, custodian, prime broker, fund administrator, hedge fund, or investment bank.
• Degree qualified or equivlanet with a financial or analytical discipline preferred.
• Investment Administration Qualification (IAQ) completed or completing considered an advantage.
• Product Experience Desirable: Corporate Bonds, FX spot and forwards, Exchange Traded Futures and Options, Interest Rate Swaps, Currency Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, CDO's, Total Return Swaps, Swaptions, High Yield Debt, Convertible Bonds, Repurchase Agreements.
• Exposure to inflation linked products an advantage.
Skills/ Knowledge
• Analytically minded with strong problem solving skills
• Understanding investment markets and settlement.
• Understanding of product and fund valuation useful.
• Performance measurement experience useful.
• Strong MS Windows applications, specifically Excel.
• Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities to meet internal and external deadlines.
• Ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external clients.
• Willing to assume responsibility and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Exposure to Sungard Front Arena, and Bloomberg is an advantage.
We at SSgA offer our customers the highest possible standards of service and fully support the Financial Services Authority initiative of 'Treating Customers Fairly'.
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