BNY
Global custodian, asset servicing, wealth management
Associate / Senior Associate - Derivatives Fund/Client Accounting
About the job
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or the equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3+ years of total work experience preferred
- Big 4 accounting firm experience preferred
- Ability to provide guidance to less experienced team members
- May have people management responsibilities in some geographies
- Conduct accounting services on behalf of assigned clients and moderately complex funds including determining net asset values, calculating fund performance, allocating expenses and preparing reports
- Drive Service Improvement plans, target efficiencies, enhance processes and perform specialist review functions within Fund/Client Accounting responsibilities
- Check the work of more junior team members and provide guidance as needed
- Perform cash and asset reconciliations related to more intricate accounts or transactions within assigned funds, including reconciliation of account expenses for complex transactions and appropriate allocation
- Escalate atypical transactions to senior team members
- Draft reports for clients regarding the performance of funds and may review first draft reports completed by more junior staff
- Interact with clients to answer questions regarding fund reports and accounting processes
- Ensure all OTC trades processed correctly to accounting platform
- Asset creation of OTC security types
- Coordination with Security Master for other OTC asset creations
- Review asset static data and trade details to highlight anomalies or nonstandard terms
- Term-sheet review for complex/nonstandard OTCs
- Contribute to the achievement of team objectives
About the company
BNY Mellon provides global financial services that help asset owners, investment managers, banks, insurers, corporations and individuals move, safekeep, and manage assets across markets. Its offerings—custody, fund and investor servicing, payments, clearing, collateral and liquidity management, asset and wealth management, credit and lending, digital assets, and analytics—are delivered through a mix of transaction, servicing, investment-management and advisory services, supported by technology. It differentiates itself through its global scale and breadth of custody and asset-servicing capabilities, established market and wealth services, and its integration of digital assets, data analytics, and AI with traditional finance. Its goal is to provide secure, efficient, and trusted asset movement and management worldwide by leveraging technology to improve operations and client service.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Town of East Hampton, New York
Founded
1784
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- BNY's $500 million preferred raises extend balance-sheet flexibility through volatile 2026 markets.
- RLUSD custody and Liontrust trading wins expand sticky fee income across two growth vectors.
- BNY Wealth manages $2.1 trillion AUM, supporting cross-sell into affluent clients and institutions.
What critics are saying
- BNY is closing Cork and Poole offices, risking roughly 400 jobs by 2027.
- Liquidity needs drove two 2026 preferred offerings, diluting common holders and raising capital costs.
- Digital-asset ambitions face regulatory delay; Galaxy staking waits for approval, slowing product monetization.
What makes BNY unique
- BNY custody and administration reached $62.6 trillion by June 30, 2026.
- Ripple chose BNY for RLUSD reserves custody in July 2025.
- Liontrust outsourced trading to BNY's Buy-Side Trading Solutions in June 2025.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Paid Vacation
Flexible Work Hours
Remote Work Options
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Company News
Luminary, an AI-native wealth transfer and administration platform, has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by Ten Coves Capital. The round included participation from BNY and 8VC, bringing total funding to nearly $32 million since launching in 2021. The platform ingests estate documents and converts them into structured data that powers workflows for financial advisors, trust companies, law firms and accounting firms. This helps them scale guidance on tax-efficient wealth transfer strategy and trust administration. Luminary currently supports client assets totalling more than $500 billion. Customers include Caprock, IEQ Capital and Wealth Enhancement Group. The funding will be used to expand AI capabilities, integrations and administrative workflows, whilst growing the sales and business development teams.
BNY Mellon, the world's largest custody bank, oversees $62.6 trillion in client assets, primarily from pension funds, mutual funds, and other institutional investors. The bank generated $5.7 billion in revenue in the second quarter, up 13% year over year, with 70% derived from asset custody and servicing fees. Custody banks hold and service assets for large institutional customers, operating with a fee-based business model that generates reliable earnings across market cycles. BNY Mellon's fees increase as asset levels rise through appreciation or net inflows. The bank also earns revenue from investment management and interest income from sweep accounts, where idle client cash is invested in high-yielding instruments. As one of a handful of major custody banks, BNY Mellon benefits from a competitive moat and has been the best-performing bank stock over the past five years.
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