Financial Analyst (Level I)

Job Description:

Wealth Management Operations (WMO) provides end-to-end operational support that drives the client experience for Wealth Management advisory partners and their clients.

Within WMO, Investment Information Management teams execute manual processes and monitor automated processes to accurately receive and manage investment information such as updating prices and dividends, monitoring investment performance accuracy, and validating client data. Performance accuracy measures the automatic generated rates of return on client accounts to ensure the return accurately represents how the client's holdings have performed.

Team Description:

The Securities Pricing Services Team obtains and validates end of day prices for investment securities held in client accounts. The daily pricing process begins when price providers send pricing data to the Pricing Team or pricing application. Inline Quality Assurance (QA) reviews (Missing Price, Price Variance) are performed to validate or correct incoming prices prior to pricing files being released to downstream applications. Following pricing file release, post release QA reviews (Stale Price, Unpriced, Price Revision) are performed the following day to validate or correct prices. The process is complete once all QA reviews are complete and retained.

Responsibilities:

• Researches and resolves end-of-day pricing outliers received on a report by applying procedures and escalation using a troubleshooting guide and engaging support partners when needed.
• Responds to internal or external business partner inquiries related to end of day pricing via email and escalates more challenging issues to leadership as needed.
• Understands the process flow from end to end including the reasons for each step, the process controls, the risks within the process and the upstream/downstream impacts of their work based on an understanding of how the work impacts other operational units.

Required Skills:

• Attention to Detail: The ability to achieve thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task and process detailed information effectively and consistently.
• Analytical Thinking: The ability to break down quantitative (numeric) and qualitative (written) information and data to recognize patterns, identify opportunities and infer insights to inform decisions.
• Collaboration: The ability to work with others to complete a task or achieve a common goal in the most effective and efficient way.
• Recording/Organizing Information: The ability to accurately capture, summarize, and organize relevant information (such as client/employee forms) using computer applications.
• Research: The ability to gather information about a topic, review, analyze and interpret the results to support a recommendation or solution.