SMA Analyst

SMA Analyst

Requirements

• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Intermediate operational knowledge involving securities, trading, portfolio management, trade settlement, reconciliation, corporate actions, and reporting
• Proficiency in manipulating and generating Excel spreadsheets
• Proficiency in using Access databases
• Strong understanding of securities markets
• Highly organized and detail-oriented

Responsibilities

• Oversee our 3rd party service provider (SEI) who builds most equity trades, processes our new and terminated account action items and reconciles our accounts with the custodians
• Review accounts in the portfolio management system and ensure that they are coded appropriately at all times
• Review accounts to ensure they are reconciled in a timely manner by SEI and update aged item reporting weekly
• Manage Trade Orders: Review block trade orders to implement model account changes, analyze trades for potential violations of account restrictions and communicate block trade orders to the AllianceBernstein trading desk for execution
• Update and communicate Portfolio Management model changes to sponsors
• Review account termination requests processed by SEI are in full compliance with client instructions (full liquidation, and partial liquidation)
• Set up new securities and benchmarks as necessary on Security APL ensuring data matches Bloomberg’s security attributes
• Regularly monitor assigned accounts for potential restriction violations
• Analyze current holdings of perspective clients to managed account styles and make recommendations to sell or hold securities
• Review and complete error corrections
• Conduct independent evaluations of critical processes to ensure that exposure areas are adequately controlled
• Lead workflow management to ensure work is completed timely by the team
• Review multiple web portals, work queues and inboxes to ensure outstanding work has been completed by team
• Quality review of work processed by the team and our 3rd party service provider (SEI), which is sent to trading for execution
• Work directly with SEI to review and resolve escalated items and issues (workflow, technology, etc)

Preferred Qualifications

• Three to five years’ experience in the finance industry
• Ideally a Business or Finance degree