Senior Specialist - Middle Office - Financial Services

Middle Office Senior Specialist- Bilingual

Job Posting Title : Middle Office Senior Specialist II - Bilingual

Job Description :

- Are you a bilingual (Japanese/English) financial services professional looking to advance your career with a growing, dynamic organization?

- If so, this Middle Office Senior Specialist II position located in San Diego, California may be something you are interested in.

- Our product offering is expanding in both the U.S. & Japan and Investment Management is seeking an investment operations specialist who is fluent in both the English and Japanese languages to help us grow this part of the business.

Get to Know the Opportunity :

- The Middle Office Senior Specialist's primary function is to support the Investment teams by implementing a thorough trade capture, trade monitoring, trade settlement and risk mitigation framework.

- Responsibilities in this role includes close interactions with various business partners including trading, Portfolio managers, technology, sales, compliance, legal, internal/external vendors, and accounting.

The Contributions You Will Make :

- Support Front office/Investment teams by providing trade support for all asset classes including derivatives, fixed incomes securities, private debt, and equities.

- Participate in trade collection of fixed income securities and complex derivative products including reconciliations to ensure accuracy of transactions.

- Resolve complex trade issues that require extensive evaluation.

- Coordinate onboarding activities for new clients, strategies, products, and asset types.

- Support the Investment Teams to improve quality of information for downstream settlements and lifecycle events.

- Implement improvements in execution to mitigate risk.

- Responsible for the day-to-day oversight of our back and middle-office provider including ensuring daily trades are communicated correctly, reconciliations are completed, and variances are resolved timely.

- Oversee the daily processing of Industry events to the Investment Accounting teams.

- Maintain strong working relations with team mem custodians, agents, and our clients.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience :

- Professional working proficiency (reading, writing and speaking) in both English and Japanese is required.

- Occasional business travel (1 to 2 times a year) to Japan may be required.

- Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience.

- 3 to 5 years of Industry experience within Middle office/Derivative Middle office/Accounting.

- Strong computer skills including knowledge of Microsoft products (i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and other PC based software.

- Good analytical and quantitative skills.

- Excellent organizational skills.

- Ability to independently prioritize projects and work in a fast paced, multi-task environment.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.