Venture Services Associate

Venture Services Associate

Requirements

• Significant knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.
• Trading and restricted securities expertise.
• Excellent communication skills including written, oral and presentation skills.
• Outstanding organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, spreadsheet applications, managing files and records, and other office procedures and terminology.
• General understanding of the investment brokerage industry and securities regulations.
• Basic knowledge of investment products.
• Basic understanding of operations system (i.e. forms and their purpose).
• Ability to organize/prioritize.
• Practical problem solving.
• Strong focus on providing exemplary client service.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent grammar and possess phone/office etiquette.
• Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
• Managing one’s own time and priorities to ensure the meeting of deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate all aspects of venture fund stock distribution.
• Assist in all aspects of restricted stock settlement from the initial venture distribution through the final distribution of proceeds.
• Complete notification of venture distribution to participants with distribution information.
• Manage Venture Services Database.
• Produce venture distribution results reports for distributing venture fund companies.
• Accept stock sale orders from venture limited partners.
• Coordinate legal opinions with company counsels developing strong relationships.
• Demonstrate expertise with restricted stock regulations and procedures including SEC Rule 144.
• Provide reports and other information to Venture Services Manager as needed.
• Identify situations that need to be brought to the attention of the Venture Services Manager or escalated to the Branch Manager.
• Perform operational and administrative functions for venture distribution client-related requests (i.e., check requests, wiring funds, address changes, account instructions, etc.).
• Distribute Operational Daily Action Reports.
• Complete daily cashiering functions.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.