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Investment Analyst
Company | Wex |
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Location | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
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Salary | $53000 – $70000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business.
- Minimum of 1 to 3 years of experience in Accounting or Finance
- An interest in banking, finance, and investments.
- Ability to meet stringent deadlines and perform with a high degree of independence.
- Ability to self-start and understand when to escalate risks and issues to management.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Google Suite.
Responsibilities
- Analyze the portfolio’s compliance to stated investment guidelines, reporting the findings to the Investment Committee and ALCO on a monthly basis.
- Support analyses of investment opportunities, analyzing their impact on risk and returns and liquidity profiles. This includes a pre-purchase review of all investments to ensure they are consistent with investment guidelines and WEX risk tolerances.
- Support the monthly portfolio impairment process by updating bank pre-purchase analysis.
- Apply and leverage internal and external systems to assess, track and monitor investment exposures and risk.
- In collaboration with other WEX teams (e.g. Accounting, Treasury, Tax), facilitate and improve investment reporting and analysis via automation.
- Support internal control processes, investment income planning, and other compliance functions.
- Create Investment Committee communication packages, as well as other presentations to senior management and/or other WEX constituencies. Support the creation of investment material for the Bank’s ALCO.
- Support investment related internal and external audit requests.
- Track and report on Bank deposit balances held at other banking institutions; interact with the Bank’s custodian on reporting and portfolio transactions.
- Gather and review inputs for WEX Bank’s interest rate risk reporting program.
- Ad hoc analysis in support of the Bank’s Finance department, as necessary.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bank experience, preferably in an ALM or Treasury role preferred.
- Banking or Financial Services industry experience preferred