Valuations, Associate Director

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Associate Director, Valuation

Locations: NYC| Hybrid

Get To Know Us: 

SS&C is leading the way.  We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few. 

Why You Will Love It Here!  

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans 

• Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement  

• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays 

• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave  

• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity 

• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University  

• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more! 

What You Will Get To Do: 

• Performing valuations control functions, including but not limited to: 

• Provide oversight for pricing procedures relating to client’s daily/monthly net asset value calculation and internal reporting 

• Conduct analytical review across a broad range of products, including Options, FX, Equity, Fixed income, Swaps, Credit Derivatives, Derivatives Options and/or Hard to Value Securities 

• Analysis of pricing discrepancies including valuation tolerance exceptions, stale prices, inadequate pricing support 

• Managing price challenge process with third-party pricing suppliers  

• Working with clients to resolve potentially mis-priced assets and/or unsubstantiated prices 

• Presentation of material discrepancies and findings to clients’ valuations committee or equivalent authority 

• Ad hoc analysis to respond to clients’ valuations committee queries 

• Conducting periodic due diligence assessment of  market data providers 

• Conducting periodic statistical analysis to assess changes to price tolerance thresholds by product type 

• Responsible for conducting portfolio testing using multiple price sources to help clients make vendor selections  

• Build excellent client relationships by proactively giving periodic valuations update and provide supporting to adopt valuation governance and procedures that reflect industry best practices  

• Developing business requirements for technology solutions to automating production processes 

• Contributing to management information analysis and reporting  

What You Will Bring: 

• Undergraduate degree in finance, mathematics, accounting or related discipline.  Graduate degree and/or professional certification, e.g., CFA, FRM preferred.  Commensurate experience will be considered 

• 5+ years relevant experience in  a broad range of financial instruments, including equity, fixed income and OTC derivatives products 

• Experience with pricing analytics tools, e.g., Bloomberg analytics, Thomson Reuters EIKON, IDC Vantage, QuoteVision 

• Experience with interacting with market data providers, e.g.Thomson Reuters, IDC, Bloomberg BVAL, Markit, SuperDerivatives and others 

• Prior supervisory experience 

• Strong analytical, organizational, verbal and written communications skills   

• Ability to cogently explain and discuss financial information/calculations to different audiences 

• Proactive team player, flexible, dependable, professional attitude, ability to deal with senior management  

• Ability to initiate and drive multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment 

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense

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