What are the responsibilities and job description for the Security & Portfolio Analyst position at VanEck?
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Includes the following, other duties may be assigned as needed:
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Qualifications
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
Includes the following, other duties may be assigned as needed:
- Responsible for security and portfolio details across the systems infrastructure.
- For securities:
- System setup and maintenance, pricing, and exchange rates
- Instructing on and processing all voluntary corporate actions (internal and external)
- Processing mandatory corporate actions
- Supports Pricing Committee
- Administers proxy voting
- Provides class action oversight
- Significant ownership reporting
- Portfolios
- Onboarding new portfolio for relevant portfolio management systems and with key business partners
- Proper implementation of fund changes including renaming and index adjustments
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Qualifications
- History of advanced system comprehension and usage; ability to understand how data flows throughout the different systems and organization
- Knowledge of industry terminology, security identifiers, and history about researching security details, values and actions
- Knowledge about corporate actions and history processing
- Strong understanding of financial markets and an interest in investing
- Knowledge about different asset classes (equity, fixed income, spots, forwards, options, futures, swaps), investment products (mutual funds, ETFs, ETNs, separately managed accounts) and transaction types/sources (buys and sells, shorts and covers, expiration, maturity, corporate actions, etc.)
- Experience working with diverse range of financial professionals including operations, trading, marketing and IT
- Focus on streamlining and improving processes/workflow
- Experience with system conversion and implementation a plus
- Bachelor Degree in business, finance, marketing, mathematics or relevant degrees
- 3-5 years at an asset manager, RIA or similar investment firm performing comparable operational functions
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Track record of hands-on problem solving
- Ability to analyze data
- Meticulous and detail-oriented
- History of successful multitasking
- Strong communication skills
- History of successfully working in teams
- Ability to work independently and take a task to completion in a timely manner
- Quick learner and ability to adapt to new situations
- Strong communication skills required as individual works closely with many areas of the business, sharing important information that is reported