Middle Office Associate

Job Description

• Participate in the new fund pipeline meetings to monitor upcoming funds to ensure investments are executed to the underlying funds.  
• Prepare investment trade documents to close into underlying funds for private equity and hedge funds; Assist in the KYC/AML process to onboard funds with managers.  
• Partner with Fund Origination, Legal, Finance, Investor Relations, and external fund administrators to close into underlying funds and monitor and coordinate deliverable deadlines for fund investments.  
• Entails frequent communication and coordination with underlying fund managers and their external counsel.  
• Provide set-up for international product distribution (ISIN, APIR, and LEI).  
• Help with team-wide tech initiatives, including but not limited to, housing fund investment data on Fund Master platform; Build out investment data infrastructure on proprietary platform; involvement in the workflow tool to streamline team processes.  
• Assist senior team members in improving processes through enhanced documentation, workflows, and/or automation to improve the scale of capabilities. Team members are expected to be active contributors to new ideas and solutions.  
• Assist with any other middle office, operations functions, and projects as required.  

Qualifications  

• 2-8 years of accounting, finance, and/or operations experience in alternatives is preferred  
• Superior organizational skills and attention to detail is required; Able to handle multiple projects and deadlines is critical  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills  
• Self-motivation and strong work ethic needed  
• Excel proficiency required  
• Possess the desire and ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced work environment