Senior Investment Operations Associate
Vise is an investment management platform built for financial advisors. Founded in 2016, Vise gives advisors the tools and technology they need to grow their business and help clients achieve their goals. By empowering advisors, Vise advances its mission of creating financial freedom for everyone. Vise is backed by Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Bond Capital and Ribbit Capital, and recently completed a Series C funding round. Come join us!
As the Senior Investment Operations Associate you will help build out Vise’s middle and back office functions. You are an expert at systematizing processes that involve portfolio reconciliation, trade settlement, performance reporting, and billing and you have a keen eye to quickly identify and resolve issues with data services. You are a self-starter who values an entrepreneurial environment and the ability to think outside the box in order to provide scalable operations solutions to a growing company.
Our office is located in One World Trade in NYC. Our office is open at limited capacity with strict contact tracing and protocols for anyone who chooses to go in. We will continue to be remote-optional until September 30, 2021. We will monitor Covid-19 trends to ensure the safety of our employees.
What you will own
- Point person for our assorted vendors and custodians to resolve issues related to daily processes, data delivery, and trade settlement
- Responsible for setting up new intermediaries, custodians, platforms, and interfaces
- Assist the trading team with broken trades, corrections, corporate actions, proxy voting
- Managing various monthly and quarterly closing processes such as performance and composite calculations
- Leading projects to streamline operations and automate processes
- Daily monitoring and reconciliation of accounts
- Work to resolve escalations from client service
- Bachelor's degree in economics/finance/engineering/business
- 5-7 years of experience with back office/middle office operations for an SMA provider or wealth management firm
- Experience working with RIA custodians - TD/Fidelity/Schwab/Pershing
- Deep knowledge of custodian data, account processes, reconciliation
- Diligent with data
- An eye for streamlining processes and improving efficiency
- Team focused mindset, eager to collaborate with others to solve problems
Vise celebrates and embraces diversity and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.