Trade Administrator/Trade Quality Control Analyst

Position Summary:

The Trading Quality Control Analyst is responsible for daily audit, review, and verification of departmental responsibilities. This individual’s primary role is to ensure that all instructions from managers, clients, and other parties are being done in a timely, accurate and efficient manner. In all, this position is crafted to minimize risk, capital loss, and deviation from policy and procedures.

Responsibilities

Model Change Trading Review

• Verify investment action replies from model providers
• Review and reconcile incoming investment action e-mails
• Verify all model change activity has been performed correctly
• Verify model only programs have been updated accurately
• Verify and audit trade details from investment actions (ticker, weight, and side)
• Monitor and review investment action working prices
• Compare Vestmark transaction details (e-mails quantities, execution quantities, price, and side)

Account Specific Trading Review

• Tax Harvesting – monitor process and verify all requested losses/gains have been traded correctly
• Verify new accounts have been traded
• Verify that all withdrawals and deposits have been processed
• Verify all liquidations have taken place
• Verify all styles changes have been traded

Alert-Based Trading Review

• Check multi-strategy accounts for sleeve/allocation drift
• Check all accounts for security/position drift
• Monitor and review high/negative cash accounts
• Model reconciliation review
• Proactively work to collaboratively support daily departmental functions.
• Contribute to general risk management, improvement in execution, and procedural development.
• Support and help reinforce team-based culture with focus around policy and procedural adherence.
• Metric tracking, coordination, and review.
• General record keeping.
• Business Continuity Plan (BCP) support and administration.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required, graduate degree and/or CFA or other professional designation desirable.
• Attention to detail, strong communications, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Ability to evaluate multi-faceted challenges and perform complex situational analysis to effectively discuss and/or propose optimal solutions.
• High level of accuracy is always required. Risk awareness and strict attention to procedural adherence is a MUST.
• Phenomenal teammate, professional and positive demeanor.
• Ability to handle deadlines, stress, and time critical situations.
• Ability to effectively multi-task.
• General securities trading and related operational practices.
• Experience with wrap / separately managed account (SMA/MDP/UMA) and related portfolio management and administration activities.
• Experience using multiple trade order and portfolio management & administration systems including Vestmark, Investcloud/APL, etc.
• Experience with standard market data platforms (Bloomberg, Factset, etc.).
• Understanding of applicable regulatory issues and general regulatory landscape is preferred.

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