Middle Office Trade Operations Specialist (Japanese Speaking) – Asset Management

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Company: Cinter Career Services

We’re seeking a talented Japanese-speaking professional with 4+ years of experience in middle/back-office operations a leading glocal asset manager in NYC. Your role will involve trade processing, settlement, and reconciliation.

• Client : Asset Manager
• Working Location: Hybrid (New York City/ NY)
• Employment Type : Hybrid, two days in office, Full-time
• Salary : 115K-125K
• Benefit: Full support
• VISA support: N/A
• Language : English, Japanese

Key Responsibilities:

• Fully understands the settlement process for all clearing institutions; DTC, Euroclear, FED, local markets
• Assist in ensuring that all trades for the day are booked and allocated correctly in the internal system and that any open trade issues are rectified
• Monitor the firm’s corporate action activity across all funds, must efficiently communicate with Portfolio Managers and Custodians for timely elections
• Assist with completing reconciliations for all accounts (cash, position, market value)
• Assist with producing and checking monthly performance reports for final AUM production
• Help maintain the firms OMS and GL system on a daily basis

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or Engineering
• Fluent in Japanese (desirable)
• Previous experience with an asset manager or fund administrator in a back-office environment with a solid understanding of trade processing, reconciliations and fund accounting
• Must possess extensive problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong excel skills, VBA a plus
• Previous experience with system integrations and enhancement desired
• Basic Bloomberg command knowledge
• Basics of MBS products and the P&I paydown process
• Effective communicator that works well in a team environment that has a strong desire to continuously improve workflows, fundamentally understands operational risk, and takes initiative

Experience Level:
4-7 years total, with buy-side or fund admin experience working in middle and back-office capacities.
Must have the ability to demonstrate strong industry knowledge of Fixed Income bonds including IG, US Gov’t, MBS and Sovereign as well as listed equities in foreign and domestic markets.
The ideal candidate will not only understand day to day operations (trade entry, post-trade confirmation and settlement, life cycle event processing, etc.) but will also have experience working with a portfolio accounting system.