Hedge Fund Operations Associate

The Hedge Fund Operations Associate is responsible for providing middle office services within the firm in a fast-paced environment.  This entails communicating with portfolio managers, and other interested parties, assisting with trade capture, and fulfilling other operational tasks.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Trading, Risk, and Valuations teams with managing trade lifecycle events for an array of asset classes with specific focus on power products like futures, options, FTRs, and Load Servicing
• Assist with manual trade bookings, booking weekly invoices, instructing collateral movements, reviewing reconciliations and resolving breaks
• Update static data, security masters, trades, and positions across multiple systems such as IVP Security Master, BBG AIM, Geneva, and proprietary systems   
• Liaise with internal trading ops team and PMs if there are issues with trade representation from a trading platform
• Raising issues to technology if certain applications or data feeds are down
• Identify process gaps, work with internal and external resources to create detailed requirements to solve issues
• Performing other duties as may be requested by senior management.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree; preferably with a concentration in finance, economics, or related discipline
• 7+ years of relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of and familiarity with complex instruments (i.e.otc options, swaps, futures, FTRs, Load trading)
• Prior experience supporting electricity and power trading is preferred, but not required
• Ability to communicate professionally and effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
• Self-starter with excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong attention to detail