What are the responsibilities and job description for the Middle Office Associate position at Mission Staffing?
Responsibilities
- Understanding concepts & workflows related to bank debt, such as:
- Maintenance of all bank loan activity (interest rate resets, principal repayments, principal drawdowns, margin changes)
- Coordinate trade settlement of primary & secondary loan closings with external parties (par & distressed, LSTA & LMA)
- Liaise with trustees and agent banks to resolve discrepancies
- Oversight of complex restructures including defaults, refi’s and extensions
- Support of cash/position/trade reconciliation process and assist with managing complex reconciliation issues
- Cash balance oversight for portfolio managers
- Support trade life cycle pre-settlement events across many other fixed income
- Analyze, document and improve current processes and controls
- Provide escalation for middle office team across business lines and work with bank, brokers and internal groups to solve problems
Requirements / Skills
- 3 years of recent experience in asset management on a buy side Middle Office team
- Understanding of post execution, confirmation, settlement and fail resolution of fixed income and equity products including bank loans, corp bonds, treasuries, equities (domestic and foreign) and mortgages
- Knowledge of Omego’s suite of post execution applications
- Knowledge of various derivative products such as futures, OTC, FOREX
- Experience and comfort dealing directly with clients, investment teams, and other senior stakeholders
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Highly organized, detail oriented, ability to multi task and problem solve
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills
- Relevant applications: WSO, Clearpar, Bloomberg AIM, Tradeflow, Omgeo, Margin Manager