Securities Reference Associate

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Job Description

Jefferies Group LLC, the largest independent, global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm headquartered in the U.S. focused on serving clients for 60 years, is a leader in providing insight, expertise and execution to investors, companies and governments. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company.

Team:

• Team supports and is responsible for number of corporate functions and services.
  • Active maintenance of Jefferies Security Master (JSEC) – the firm’s internal security master reference database that utilizes multiple internal and external reference data sources. Part of the core services include providing internal uniform product classification for all securities of interest including OTC and exchange traded derivatives, providing horizontal and vertical product identifiers cross references for securities of interest and providing security attributes.
  • Securities set up and maintenance required for straight through transaction processing within firm’s settlement systems
  • End of the day price validation process for customer held positions
• Regular facetime with corporate business users is expected and required. As part of this process, team monitors on global basis various users reports that utilize master data maintained by the team. Team members interact with various business users and address any related exceptions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform data reconciliations functions, that will include monitoring and resolving of any internal data inconsistencies for securities set ups. These will include follow ups with various source data owners and business subject matter experts.
• Perform cross data validations and data quality checks on securities data in various reports being utilized by corporate users.
• Perform analysis and testing for any new projects involving any new data sources or new data services.
• Set up and maintain securities in main fixed income and equities settlement systems
• Perform price validation checks in firm’s main settlement systems
• Run ad hoc queries for various corporate uses.

Required Background:

• 2-4 years of relevant experience with financial industry, preferably security reference data exposure.
• Knowledge of Japanese securities a plus
• Bloomberg terminal usage a big plus
• Intermediate/advanced level in Microsoft Excel a must: comfortable using pivot tables, v-look ups/advanced lookup formulas, conditional formulas
• Familiarity with trade bookings/trade data support or settlements a plus
• Strong attention to details and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Prior Fixed Income and or Equities Reference or Pricing Data Experience preferable
• SQL language a plus.

Knowledge of Japanese language a plus

Primary Location: Jersey City, NJ Full Time Salary Range of $110,000-$130,000.

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About Us

Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.

At Jefferies, we are committed to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a workforce that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, pregnancy, age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, marital status, domestic partner status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.

The salary offered will take into consideration an individual’s experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies Financial Group is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees or part-time employees, who are scheduled to work at least 30 hours or more per week, including an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays, and for full-time employees, paid parental leave.