Operations Analyst (Salt Lake City, UT)

Paladin Consulting is currently hiring a Operations Analyst to join our team working onsite at our client's office located in Salt Lake City, UT.

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Job Title: Operations Analyst
Work Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Duration: 10 month contract
Education/Experience Required: Bachelor's degree; Working knowledge of certain Microsoft products including Word, Windows, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Job Description & Responsibilities :

• Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted division that partners with all parts of the firm to deliver banking, sales and trading and asset management capabilities to clients around the world.
• In addition, Operations provides essential risk management and control to preserve and enhance the firm's assets and its reputation.
• For every trade agreed, every new product launched or market entered, every transaction completed, it is Operations that develops the processes and controls that makes business flow.
• The Trade Management team has primary responsibility of mitigating risk throughout all aspects of trade flow, settlement, and collateral management.
• By building deep relationships with the trading desks, technology, brokers, and clients, Trade Management oversees the existing business and implements solutions for new products, strategies, and systems.
• Active change requires active leadership; Trade Management prioritizes innovation in order to craft the future asset management landscape.

JOB DUTIES:

• Prepare to gain a comprehensive understanding of the trade lifecycle by interacting with traders, strategists, clients, and technologists to work toward the shared goal of risk mitigation
• Connect daily with traders and brokers to resolve issues and ensure timely settlement of trades
• Understand and improve problem solving capability for complex trade flow, accounting issues, and transactional discrepancies
• Showcase leadership in project management skills toward aims of improved cross-product support and relationship management
• Leverage your quantitative skills to decompose processes to improve control and scale of the business
• Provide reporting to senior leadership and produce insightful analyses of the business upon request for management
• Grow with the team; develop a deeper understanding of complex transactions and work with our business partners to progress our trade capture capabilities

Skills & Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree
• Working knowledge of certain Microsoft products including Word, Windows, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Advanced knowledge of Excel preferred
• Sound judgment and outstanding attention to detail
• Proven analytical skills and problem solving ability
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with all levels of the organization and with third parties
• Flexible and able to work well under pressure in a team environment
• Self-motivated
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Ability to multi-task

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