Institutional Investment Operations Associate
Wells Fargo
Key Responsibilities:
• Understand and implement client's requirement by liaising with internal and external counterparties (if required) to ensure seamless transition and onboarding
• Coordinate and manage tasks across a multi-disciplined team to ensure all operational information relating to an account event is received and systems are set up prior to account trading activity
• Providing effective thought leadership in navigating evolving industry trends, client needs, business growth, financial regulatory landscape and helping to develop solutions to build appropriate architecture
• Complete BAU responsibilities and identify process enhancement opportunities
• Request management and delegation to downstream partners
• Support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture
• Working cohesively with U.S / EMEA / APAC Client Facilitation teams to effectively manage and process client data requests
• Develop strong working relationships with Sales, Trading Desks, Collateral, Client Accounts, CDD, and other onboarding teams
• Ensure and adhere to the Regulatory Reporting standards, policies and procedures
• Become a risk manager by ensuring data integrity and challenging where required
• Engage in opportunities to review processes, analyze information, make decisions and recommendations and implement and monitor procedures
• Independently research and analyze regulatory reporting requirements and other financial documents
• Provide reporting to senior leadership and produce insightful analyses of the business upon request for management
Preferred Skillsets:
• Prior experience of 5+ years in a similar on-boarding team and or function
• Strong knowledge of the banking regulatory reporting rules and regulations including FINRA, Qualified Financial Contracts and Dodd Frank regulations
• Understanding of client onboarding documentation, including working knowledge of requirements driving KYC/CDD/EDD, AML, Tax, regulatory & ISDA documentation
• Ability to independently research and analyze regulatory reporting requirements and other financial documents
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of loan, securities and derivative products
• Advanced knowledge of trade processing life-cycle
• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft applications including Excel, Access Database and Tableau
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Familiar with market utility vendors such as Markit and OMGEO to collect and analyze client onboarding documents and requirements
• Strong Analytic ability, with high attention to detail, accuracy and strong problem solving skills
• Ability to communicate (written/verbal) effectively at all organizational levels
• Excellent Interpersonal skills – ability to build relationships
• Ability to plan and organize workload within tight deadlines, meeting day-to-day objectives as well as longer term strategic goals
• Perform analysis of, and make recommendations on functionality/efficiency of established controls and processes to ensure appropriate risk based operational procedures are in place and are meeting regulatory requirements/expectations
Essential requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a business-related field is strongly preferred
- Previous experience in Operations and/or Financial Services industry
- Relevant work experience of 5+ years in one or a combination of the following: middle office, collateral, documentation, client onboarding, project management, business operations, strategic planning in financial services, regulatory oversight, AML/KYC, US tax regime & compliance and SSI setup
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Knowledge and understanding of Excel, PowerPoint, Word and adaptability to other software products
- Ability to research, compile, and perform complex analysis on critical operational data
- Be highly collaborative and team-oriented
- Demonstrate strong analytical and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work with impacted areas to understand complex problems
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment
- Strong multi-tasking abilities in a high performance, high demand environment
- Ability to think strategically, drive consensus and influence decision making.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment
- Strong multi-tasking abilities in a high performance, high demand environment
- Ability to think strategically, drive consensus and influence decision making
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