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Lead Analyst, Investment Trade Settlements

TIAA•Iselin, NJ
•Onsite
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About The Position

The Lead Analyst will be a member of the Trade Operations team within Nuveen Global Investment Operation. The candidate will act as a lead analyst on the team and will be responsible for supporting our investment team by ensuring accurate and timely trade support of Foreign Exchange (FX) and derivatives trades within Nuveen's order management, accounting, and collateral management systems. In addition to supporting production trading, the candidate will work closely with Nuveen's Equity and Fixed Income investment teams, Technology teams, and critical business partners such as State Street to advance Nuveen's strategic initiatives and implement process improvements to scale and support the growth of the business. The Lead will be responsible ensuring timely and accurate communication of trade activity to necessary downstream stakeholders as well as cash and underlying securities related to derivatives trading.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree Required
  • 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred
  • 5+ years of Financial services experience
  • Experience working in asset management (such as investment/trading operations)

Nice To Haves

  • Excellent communication skills; ability to articulate issues with internal/external stakeholders and present highly technical subject matter at an appropriate level for the target audience.
  • Controls mindset, ability to partner with Compliance and Risk Management to advance the business and mitigate risk.
  • Experience with or strong understanding of FX and various derivatives instruments across equity, fixed income, and credit asset classes.
  • Broader knowledge of Investment Operations
  • Strong knowledge of derivatives trade lifecycle and support across bilateral, listed, and cleared derivatives trading workflows.
  • Understanding of Investment Management products (Pension funds, Mutual funds, Separate accts).
  • Knowledge of order management systems and/or electronic trading systems to support derivatives and FX trading.
  • Experience with Bloomberg Aim, Charles River,
  • Experience working with outsourced service providers
  • Experience with supporting global trading and operating within a "follow-the-sun" global operating model
  • Strong Project Management Skills
  • Ability to run meetings and drive results

Responsibilities

  • Oversee FX and derivatives trade management activity, identifying high-risk issues and resolving trade breaks through Nuveen's strategic outsourced operations partners.
  • Oversee FX and derivatives trade processing, analytics, and reporting within proprietary derivatives risk and analytics platform, supporting investments and risk management teams.
  • Closely collaborate with Trading, Technology, and Operations to support strategic initiatives through business analysis, development, testing, and implementation.
  • Incorporate a risk management mindset, focused on identifying and mitigating operational risk through continued process improvement and enhanced operational controls.
  • Develop standard operating procedures and remediation plans to address operational risk.
  • Oversee and support operational onboarding activities for derivatives trading and collateral management.
  • Partner with Legal on prerequisite trading agreements to support client onboarding and fund launch.

Benefits

  • superior retirement program
  • highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings

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Job Type

Full-time

Career Level

Mid Level

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