Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cerity Partners is a management firm that specializes in investment services, and they are seeking a Portfolio Reporting Team Lead to oversee the portfolio reporting function. This role involves supporting the Addepar and Orion systems for client performance reporting, leading workflows, and ensuring accurate reporting while integrating new advisors onto these systems.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day leadership and guidance for the portfolio reporting function, serving as a key resource for team members using the reporting platforms
- Lead or support the coordination of reporting workflows to ensure timely and accurate delivery of client reporting
- New account set-up: including coding, linking to custodians and ensuring proper reporting of all investments
- Daily update/reconciliation
- Monitor reporting and integration of alternative assets
- Monthly performance updates
- Proactively monitor dashboards to ensure system integrity and data accuracy
- Maintain a working understanding of the metrics, calculations, key user workflows, and operational processes involved in end-to-end maintenance of the reporting platform
- Document required processes for ongoing system support, participate in requirements gathering for ongoing system updates, and help facilitate user integration and acceptance testing
- Establish the clients / accounts
- Link to custodians
- Conversion of history (transactions, balances and performance)
- Reconciliation of history conversion
- Population of custom attributes
- In conjunction with users, create and test client packages
- Ensure the existence of adequate internal controls and compliance with regulatory requirements
- Assist with improvement projects, ad-hoc projects and complete assigned research projects
- Maintain written procedures on all aspects of this position and work to continuously improve initiatives to identify potential solutions and efficiencies
Skills
- Leadership experience, including leading projects, mentoring team members, or overseeing operational workflows within a reporting, operations, or financial services environment
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel
- Experience using Salesforce
- Proven history of being a 'self-starter,' and a track record of working effectively in a remote/virtual environment, with a distributed team
- Ability to 'manage up' and have direct, open, and progressive conversations with Management and Partners across the firm
- An appetite for analytical problem-solving and desire to maintain a solutions-oriented approach to addressing opportunities and challenges
- Team player who welcomes feedback with the goal of continuous improvement
- Detail-oriented with strong verbal and written communication skills, professional presentation, and organizational skills
- Attitude that no task is too small and a willingness to do whatever tasks are necessary to make sure that the work is done on time
- Proficiency in technology/applications a must – experience with excel required
- 7-10 years of related investment services industry experience preferred
- Experience with portfolio accounting and performance management software such as Addepar and Orion a plus
- Bachelor's degree required; experience in financial services preferred
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance – day 1!
- 401(k) savings and investment plan options with 4% match
- Flexible PTO policy
- Parental Leave
- Financial assistance for advanced education and professional designations
- Opportunity to give back time to local communities
- Commuter benefits
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