Middle Office Specialist:
Looking to connect experienced Trading Operations professionals with a mid-sized Hedge Fund client in Chicago.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee daily trading affirmations, allocations and reconciliation of market activity and cash accounts.
- Work with various teams internally to reconciliation differences.
- Preparation and review of internal performance estimates.
- Review daily corporate action information and following up with internal stakeholders and external counterparties.
- Generation and review of daily and monthly reports including broker commissions, interest, margin and performance statistics.
- Monitoring of all Fund service providers, including SLAs and KPIs
- Review month end NAV calculations, complex master feeder structures, fee calculation and managed account vehicles.
- Cash management including accounts payable, treasury management, counterparty margin requirements, trade settlements and movements between Master Feeder structure to ensure compliance to company and fund policy and procedures.
- Assist the risk management function in the production and review of daily and monthly reports pertaining to all three business lines
Experience / Skills
- Educated to Degree level, ideally with a STEM background.
- 1-5 years experience working within a Hedge Fund.
- Strong Excel skills, ideally VBA and/or SQL skills.
