About this role
Wells Fargo is seeking a Institutional Investment Operations Associate.
Team Member will be part of the Onboarding Client Facilitation team, which is responsible for a wide variety of activities that supports collecting, analyzing and maintaining client data as part of the Client On-Boarding process. Team members will be working on providing support for business lines such as FX, Rates, Equities, Fixed Income, Futures and Prime Services supporting the various stages of the onboarding process. Team members will be expected to complete various data capture and processing tasks to onboard clients through the various internal systems used to support client setup and trading activity. By ensuring accuracy and timeliness of data, we facilitate the business in achieving knowledge of products, markets and market related setups. Team member will also drive initiatives and provide solutions that will have an impact on client experience and risk mitigation.
This role has a potential to co-ordinate with the front office directly. The role will be the central point of contact across operational and front office teams to complete and report on various stages of the onboarding process. The Facilitator will gather evidence of customer profile via documentary or non-documentary means utilizing both in-house and external sources. They will initiate the Client Onboarding process by entering data into the client onboarding system and share documents with internal teams such as the Documentation, AML and Credit teams. The facilitator will track progress and provide status of onboarding request to the request initiator.
In this role, you will
Understand and implement clients requirement by liaising with internal and external counterparties (if required) to ensure seamless transition and onboarding
Coordinate and manage tasks across a multi-disciplined team to ensure all operational information relating to an account event is received and systems are set up prior to account trading activity
Providing effective thought leadership in navigating evolving industry trends, client needs, business growth, financial regulatory landscape and helping to develop solutions to build appropriate architecture
Complete BAU responsibilities and identify process enhancement opportunities
Request management and delegation to downstream partners
Support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture
Working cohesively with U.S / EMEA / APAC Client Facilitation teams to effectively manage and process client data requests
Develop strong working relationships with Sales, Trading Desks, Collateral, Client Accounts, CDD, and other onboarding teams
Ensure and adhere to the Regulatory Reporting standards, policies and procedures
Become a risk manager by ensuring data integrity and challenging where required
Engage in opportunities to review processes, analyze information, make decisions and recommendations and implement and monitor procedures
Independently research and analyze regulatory reporting requirements and other financial documents
Provide reporting to senior leadership and produce insightful analyses of the business upon request for management
Required Qualifications
- 6+ months of Institutional Investment Operations experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications
Prior experience of 5+ years in a similar on-boarding team and or function
Strong knowledge of the banking regulatory reporting rules and regulations including FINRA, Qualified Financial Contracts and Dodd Frank regulations
Understanding of client onboarding documentation, including working knowledge of requirements driving KYC/CDD/EDD, AML, Tax, regulatory & ISDA documentation
Ability to independently research and analyze regulatory reporting requirements and other financial documents
Extensive knowledge and understanding of loan, securities and derivative products
Advanced knowledge of trade processing life-cycle
Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft applications including Excel, Access Database and Tableau
Excellent teamwork skills
Familiar with market utility vendors such as Markit and OMGEO to collect and analyze client onboarding documents and requirements
Strong Analytic ability, with high attention to detail, accuracy and strong problem solving skills
Ability to communicate (written/verbal) effectively at all organizational levels
Excellent Interpersonal skills ability to build relationships
Ability to plan and organize workload within tight deadlines, meeting day-to-day objectives as well as longer term strategic goals
Perform analysis of, and make recommendations on functionality/efficiency of established controls and processes to ensure appropriate risk based operational procedures are in place and are meeting regulatory requirements/expectations
Job Expectations
- Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or a business-related field is strongly preferred
- Previous experience in Operations and/or Financial Services industry
- Relevant work experience of 5+ years in one or a combination of the following middle office, collateral, documentation, client onboarding, project management, business operations, strategic planning in financial services, regulatory oversight, AML/KYC, US tax regime & compliance and SSI setup
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Knowledge and understanding of Excel, PowerPoint, Word and adaptability to other software products
- Ability to research, compile, and perform complex analysis on critical operational data
- Be highly collaborative and team-oriented
- Demonstrate strong analytical and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work with impacted areas to understand complex problems
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment
- Strong multi-tasking abilities in a high performance, high demand environment
- Ability to think strategically, drive consensus and influence decision making.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment
- Strong multi-tasking abilities in a high performance, high demand environment
- Ability to think strategically, drive consensus and influence decision making
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