Hedge Fund Operations - Senior Associate Job Listing at SS&C Technologies in London (Job ID R23823)

Description

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

SS&C Financial Services – Hedge Fund Operations – Senior Associate

About SS&C Technologies

SS&C is a global provider of investment, financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

SS&C Financial Services

A leading innovator in alternative investment technology solutions and services, SS&C is also home to the industry's largest fund administrator: SS&C GlobeOp, helping funds of all sizes from start-ups to today's largest funds.

Named "Best Administrator: Technology" in the 2020 HFM US Services Awards. Across all of SS&C, we serve nearly $45 trillion in managed assets. We have assembled an exceptional team of fund accounting experts and equipped them with the industry's leading technology, which SS&C built and supports.

About the Role

We are looking for a Hedge Fund Operations Senior Associate to work in our client's London office with support to work remotely on a partial basis and focus on the client's multi-PM macro hedge fund that focuses on a diversified set of discretionary and systematic trading strategies and the hiring of exclusive trading talent.

Your Responsibilities

• Cover the onsite U.K. time zone operational support for dedicated basket of independent managed accounts and portfolio management teams.
• Support the daily trade capture and P&L validation process.
• Review and monitor daily cash and position reconciliations.
• Monitor trade settlements daily.
• Support investment and risk teams by responding to queries on individual account transactions and positions and work with the risk team to provide accurate daily risk data across accounts.
• Act as liaison between the portfolio manager, counterparty and administrator to ensure seamless interaction between all parties. 
• Support tracking and analysis of margin excess and financing requirements across accounts.
• Review and manage the accounting and valuation treatment for a variety of asset classes, including equities, futures, fixed income securities, listed options, currency forwards, contracts-for-difference, credit default swaps, interest rate swaps and other OTC products.
• Identify process improvement opportunities that will result in greater efficiency in daily processes or month end production across the team.
• Identify transactions or areas of risk that will impact the financial reporting and tax compliance teams including particularly those impacting financial reporting classification, valuation and profit and loss allocation.

Your Experience

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Highly motivated self-starter with an appetite for knowledge.
• Ability to become a subject matter expert and increase the depth of knowledge across the team.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• 3-5 years prior work experience with a Hedge Fund, Financial Institution or hedge fund administrator operations department.
• Experience with Microsoft office applications, comfort with custom database environments, OMS/PMS environments, Advent Geneva and Partner considered a plus.
• VBA experience highly regarded

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Background Checks

All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks, including 5-year employment history, proof of eligibility to work in hiring location, proof of address, credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law). The accuracy of all information you submit as part of your application is vital and may be used as part of the background checking process should you be successful.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.