Ready for a new challenge in Fund Servicing? As an Associate for our Highbridge Capital Management Treasury and Operations group you will a key member of the group, this person will work closely with our investment team and partner with other groups within Highbridge including fund controllers, risk management and technology.
Highbridge Capital Management, LLC, is a global alternative asset management firm founded in 1992. Since its inception, the company has developed a diversified investment platform that includes hedge funds, traditional investment management products, and committed, closed-end vehicles with longer-term holding periods. Highbridge is a differentiated, credit and volatility focused franchise with the flexibility to invest opportunistically across the capital structure and liquidity spectrum. The Firm currently manages $4 billion+ of capital and seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for some of the world’s most prominent institutional investors, public and corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations and family offices. The firm is based in New York with an office in London.
Job responsibilities
1. Reviews and monitors daily cash and position reconciliations
2. Creates and maintenance of security set ups spanning all asset classes and engaging trading desk and risk management teams providing oversight to ensure data propagates downstream to all applications for reporting and investment screening
3. Works hand-in-hand with traders, portfolio managers and research analysts to manage the execution of complex corporate actions (refinancings, exchanges, acquisitions, etc) among our portfolio companies, arranging third-party documentation required, communicating with our counterparties to ensure timely settlement and engage Controllers internally on p&l recognition of such events
4. Works with investment team to support the proxy process for all asset classes
5. Supports the daily trade capture and P&L validation process
6. Liaises between counterparties and trading desk to secure stock borrows intraday as risk hedges and negotiate rates to minimize P&l drag
7. Monitors of various counterparties, prepares reporting and borrowing base oversight / Trade settlements – liaises with prime brokers and counterparties to arrange settlement of executed trades / Cash and Collateral Management including FX exposure monitoring
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
8. Extensive experience with a hedge fund, financial institution or administrator
9. Buy side experience, preferably within a multi-strategy or credit fund
10. Strong verbal and written communication skills: will need to demonstrate a strong ability to communicate with internal team members and third parties including counterparties. High intellectual aptitude; ability to develop a deep understanding of complex investment products
11. Strong organizational skills with the ability to set, organize and meet priorities
12. Entrepreneurial, energetic and dedicated personality, able to work effectively within a high-performance, global team
13. Highly motivated self-starter with an appetite for knowledge