Senior Custody Associate

Job Description Summary

Accurately execute routine and specialized custody-related financial transactions in alignment with established operational procedures and compliance standards. Perform research and analysis to resolve exceptions and process non-standard transactions, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution within service level expectations.

Job Description

This is a full-time, onsite position. Monday-Friday from 8am-5pm. In office days will be 5 per week in one of the following locations: St. Petersburg, FL, Memphis, TN, or Southfield, MI.

Responsibilities:

• Produce, update, and provide best practice support on Microsoft documents, databases, and other departmental systems. Tasks may include purchasing materials, entering budgetary information, and recording time and expenses.

• Carry out operational tasks by following established processes. This will involve adjusting multiple settings or parameters to meet performance standards.

• Prepare routine letters, memoranda, reports, and similar documents following detailed instruction. This is likely to involve using the full range of functions within standard office software.

• Create, organize, and maintain files containing the correspondence and records of a senior colleague.

• Help manage internal client relationships by supporting others to build effective working relations.

• Assess compliance with established standards and protocols for routine inquiries.

• Support others by working on a variety of data management tasks.

• Develop working knowledge of the organization's policies and procedures and of regulatory codes and codes of conduct relevant to own work, adhering to mandatory procedures to ensure own work is undertaken to the required standards.

• Develop and maintain excellent process or technical skills by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching.

Knowledge of: 

• Microsoft Word, Access, Excel and Outlook to create/update documents, reports, spreadsheets and emails.

• Principles, practices, and procedures of general office concepts and those that govern finance and/or securities industry operations.

• Regulations for specific assigned functional area.

• Process flows and systems within specific assigned functional area.

• Fundamental project management tools, techniques and procedures.

• Skill in: Analyzing data to identify discrepancies and trends.

• Analyzing operational processes and identifying opportunities for improvement.

• Complex problem solving.

Skills:

• Supports business processes with guidance but not constant supervision by understanding and effectively using standard office equipment and standard software packages.

• Uses clear and effective verbal communications skills with guidance (but not constant supervision) to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.

• Works with guidance (but not constant supervision) to plan, organize, prioritize and oversee activities to efficiently meet business objectives.

• Works with guidance (but not constant supervision) to develop appropriate plans or perform necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.

• Works under guidance (but not constant supervision) to analyze data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.

• Uses an understanding of numerical concepts to perform mathematical operations such as report analysis with guidance (but not constant supervision).

• Works with guidance (but not constant supervision) to select, deploy and get the best results from the most appropriate office system.

• Works with guidance (but not constant supervision) to develop, monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.

Education

High School (HS) (Required)

Work Experience

General Experience - 7 to 12 months

Certifications

Travel

Less than 25%

Workstyle

Resident

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