Senior Portfolio Specialist

Goelzer Investment Management, Inc•Carmel, IN

14h

About The Position

The Senior Portfolio Specialist (SPS) leads and administers the firm’s trading function, ensuring efficient trade execution, strong process controls, and alignment with investment strategy. The role supports accurate and reliable monitoring of client accounts and partners closely with portfolio management and operations to support investment outcomes. The SPS also serves as the primary contact with custodians to support data integration and integrity. The position oversees trading across client accounts and households, including block trading, trade aggregation, and allocations. It owns trading workflows, procedures, and controls; supports trade reviews and execution-quality analysis; and helps identify and resolve trade exceptions. The SPS develops and maintains integrations among portfolio-management systems, third-party strategy providers, and custodians, and escalates operational risks, data-integrity concerns, and system limitations to leadership.

Requirements

At least five years of relevant operational and trading experience, including equities, mutual funds, and individual bonds.
Relevant experience in wealth management or related financial services.
Operational-level experience with portfolio accounting, reporting, and rebalancing software.
Bachelor’s degree in finance or a related field.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including advanced lookup and reference functions, and ability to extract and integrate data between applications.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, and focus on accuracy.
Ability to produce high-quality work in a demanding, often time-constrained environment.
Professionalism and commitment to confidentiality.

Nice To Haves

Administrative experience with the Tamarac product suite, including Tamarac Portfolio Center.

Responsibilities

Execute and oversee trading across client accounts and households.
Manage block trading, trade aggregation, and allocations.
Ensure timely and accurate trade execution aligned with investment strategy.
Assist with internal operational reviews involving trading activity, system behavior, reporting processes, and investment data accuracy.
Escalate operational risks, data-integrity concerns, and system limitations to appropriate leadership in a timely manner.
Maintain required trade documentation, audit trails, and order records.
Identify, document, and assist in resolving trade exceptions and error corrections as necessary.
Support trade reviews, execution-quality analysis, and pricing validation as directed.
Own and maintain trading workflows, procedures, and controls.
Drive improvements in trading efficiency and scalability.
Develop and maintain integrations across portfolio-management systems, third-party strategy providers, and custodians.
Partner with portfolio managers and operations on trading alignment.
Coordinate trading activity with custodians.
Communicate risks, issues, and constraints to leadership.