Associate Reconciliation Specialist, MS Ops

at  FactSet Research Systems

JOB DESCRIPTION: Associate Reconciliation Specialist
FactSet combines hundreds of databases into a single, powerful information system. It is a one-stop source for financial information and analytics for business analysts, portfolio managers, investment bankers / management firms and other financial professionals to analyze companies, portfolios, markets & economies. FactSet was formed in 1978 and operates out of 64 locations worldwide. FactSet with over $1.1 billion in annual revenues, is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut and employs nearly 10,000 people worldwide. Our operations extend within North America as well as Europe and the Pacific Rim. Since 1996, the Company has been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FDS.
Portfolio Services is an integrated suite of client services that ensures consistent, accurate and timely nightly processing of portfolio and security level returns and analytics. The Portfolio Services Reconciliation Team conducts daily analytics research on client portfolios. We address security analytics issues. The team closely supports and coordinates with other Portfolio Services stakeholders to ensure clients’ analytics data are quality assured in real-time, and to address questionable inputs or settings in their holdings.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• University Degree holder - Business Management, Business Administration, Financial Management, Mathematical Finance, Economics or equivalent - and in good standing
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently
• Attention to detail.
• Interest in learning new concepts and technologies
• Strong Interpersonal Skills
• Quick learner; ability to apply skills and past experiences in new situations
• Experience with and knowledge of Microsoft Excel, logic/coding an advantage.
• Flexible to work in shifts.
• Good command of the English language – written and oral
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• The primary responsibilities of the position include:
• Performs coverage and analytical research on incoming tasks from the Portfolio Services Dashboard queue.
• Learn, execute, manage and apply Confluence-based quality assurance processes when possible
• Commit oneself to continuous learning of different tools, utilities and processes used by the team to execute and manage quality assurance processes
• Commit oneself to continuous learning of fixed income terms and analytics at a conceptual and application level
• Share ideas towards process and output improvements
• Accountable for work output produced
• Responsible and accountable for workload timeliness and RPD management
• Accountable for development and growth of product and process knowledge including passing quarterly PKT.
• Report and consult team mentor/leader/manager for any and all work-related questions and concerns