Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Arootah is a talent solutions firm serving the alternative investment industry through project-based advisory and talent services. It is seeking experienced Treasury Analysts and treasury operations professionals to support hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices with cash management, collateral optimization, reconciliation, NAV oversight, treasury reporting, and related operational projects.
Responsibilities
- Design treasury operations frameworks, establishing processes for cash management, funding coordination, collateral optimization, and treasury workflow across operations, accounting, trading, and portfolio management functions
- Develop reconciliation processes and controls, creating standardized procedures for daily and monthly reconciliations including position reconciliation, open repo, swap agreements, cash balances, and prime broker statements to ensure accurate books and records
- Establish NAV oversight and support procedures, building frameworks for monitoring fund administrators' NAV creation processes, implementing control checks, and developing escalation protocols for pricing and valuation issues
- Create collateral management monitoring systems, designing tools and processes for tracking collateral exposures, margin requirements, haircuts, and optimization opportunities across prime brokers and counterparties
- Build counterparty management frameworks, developing systems for tracking counterparty metrics, financing rates, costs, credit limits, and relationship terms to support treasury decision-making and risk management
- Develop treasury policies, SLAs, and metrics, establishing oversight standards for outsourced and insourced functions supporting treasury operations, including performance measurement and service level monitoring
- Create exception management and resolution protocols, designing workflows for identifying, researching, and resolving books and records discrepancies with clear documentation and escalation procedures
- Build treasury reporting and analytics tools, developing dashboards, presentations, and updates on treasury exposures, financing costs, collateral utilization, and operational metrics for various levels of management
- Train treasury and operations teams, conducting education sessions on treasury best practices, reconciliation techniques, collateral management, and counterparty coordination
- Support special projects including prime broker transitions, new financing arrangement implementations, treasury system evaluations, and operational process improvements requiring treasury expertise
Skills
- 3+ years' experience with Alternative Asset Manager/Hedge Fund Middle Office, Administrator, Institutional Investment Bank or Prime Broker required
- Excellent time management and organizational skills required with the ability to prioritize and multitask effectively
- Basic understanding and working knowledge of the operational aspects of fixed income products, cash, OTC derivatives, and their related standard settlement mechanisms
- Must be proficient in Excel using pivot tables, vlookups, macros, and If/Then statements, Bloomberg data functions for live and historic market data
- Detailed understanding of how all P& L components are calculated across all security types
- Working knowledge of Aladdin, Charles River, Bloomberg AIM is a plus
Benefits
- Alt-industry-only engagements with hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices
- Project-based work that fits around existing commitments
- Client origination and engagement management handled by Arootah; advisors focus on delivery
- Access to opportunities as they arise through Arootah’s advisor network
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