Hiring Manager: Max Mehlhorn
Recruiter: Trisha Danielson (trisha.danielson@allianzlife.com) | Please email me after you have applied with an attachment of your resume.
Pay Band: I-2 or I-3 depending on experience
Employee Referral Information: Employee Referrals should be sent via email to the assigned recruiter for the role. Please include the job title, job ID, and the referral’s resume. Referrals must be position-specific or no referral award will be given.
Internal Background Check Information: Allianz Life requires a criminal background check, credit check, and/or social media check as needed for all positions requiring securities registrations, officer level and above positions, and positions included in the Allianz Group Fit and Proper Policy.

You will be a senior team member responsible for daily investment operations related to Residential and Commercial Mortgage Loans. You will bring subject matter expertise to support the ongoing operations and expansion of AIM’s Mortgage Loan portfolio and owner of designated processes. This includes overseeing trade processing, reconciling and analyzing portfolio data, loan and collateral valuations, and investment and accounting reporting. You will work with other teams, those within the organization (accounting, treasury, policy, risk, portfolio management), and also those externally (asset managers, custodians, trustees) to ensure that investment operations are completed accurately and in a timely manner. Further you will mentor less experienced staff on industry best practices, promote important projects to implement straight through processing, and further optimize repetitive investment value chain processes to deliver superior value to AIM’s clients. You will report to the AIM AVP – Investment Operations.

• Trade and Position Review: Facilitate the timely and accurate booking of trades and resulting positions, ensuring that all trades are reflected on Allianz’s books and records (IBOR, ABOR) in accordance with regulatory guidelines and internal policies.
• Cash Management: Monitor cash balances and ensure that all cash transactions are processed accurately and promptly.
• Reconciliation: Reconcile portfolio data against custodian and asset manager statements and resolve any discrepancies promptly.
• Investment Strategy Execution: Work with internal investment managers and external asset managers to ensure that investment strategies are booked timely and accurately demonstrating knowledge of the governing documents of the investment mandates.
• Valuation& Risk: Understand external manager loan valuation processes and manage and perform the internal independent price valuation; manage and optimize the loan risk rating process.
• Reporting: Create reports to provide insight into investment performance, accounting, compliance and risk management.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve operational processes and procedures to increase efficiency and reduce risk.
• Relationship Management: Building relationships internally and with asset managers is critical to the success of this role.