Investment Operations Officer

Position Summary: In compliance with established policies and procedures the Investment Operations Officer supports all phases of the transaction lifecycle for equities, fixed income, and alternative investments. The Operations professional will be a key contributor to an experienced and growing team responsible for the daily support of our Private Wealth Advisors and longer-term strategic project work.

Essential Job Functions:

• Communicates with custodians, banks, brokers, and third-party vendors to resolve issues related to daily processes, data delivery, trade settlement, and other operational matters.
• Work closely with existing operations staff to ensure operational consistency and implement superior solutions.
• Processes new external managers on custodial platform with our interfaces
• Coordination of alternative investment support, including contributions, redemptions, capital calls, distributions, and valuation
• Maintains security master, trading restrictions, and various other account and portfolio-level details.
• Responds to various internal requests in support of new client onboarding, portfolio management, and trust considerations.
• Ensures the data integrity of periodic and ad hoc reports for internal and external consumption.
• Coordinates voluntary and mandatory corporate action processing and proxy voting.
• Assist with portfolio model trading and rebalancing.
• Required regular attendance at the FineMark location designated in this job description, during regular business hours, or assigned hours for the position, is required. This is not a remote-work position
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Required Education, Skills, and Experience:

• 3 – 10 years of relevant work experience, preferably in wealth management, fund administration, or other financial services
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field preferred
• Portfolio accounting and performance experience
• Good understanding of financial markets required
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel required
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks required
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required
• Organizational skills to manage data, projects, and processes
• Knowledge of Addepar and/or FIS TrustDesk a plus

ADA Job Description: The physical requirements and activities described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Requirements. This position primarily requires sedentary work; exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Walking and standing are required only occasionally.

Physical Activities. The following physical activities are frequently required: talking is required to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word and hearing, with or without correction, is required to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels. The use of fingers is frequently required to pick, pinch, type (e.g., keyboard) or otherwise work, primarily with the fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling. There is frequent repetitive motion which requires substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. This position may occasionally require that a person climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, push, pull, lift, grasp and/or feel.

Visual Acuity Requirements. Close visual acuity and the ability to adjust focus, with or without correction, are required to perform activities such as, viewing a computer monitor or written materials and documents; reading; writing; preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; close visual inspection. Some distance vision and color vision may be necessary.

Environmental Conditions. A person is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions and only exposed to moderate noise; they may occasionally work near moving mechanical parts or machinery such as a copier/printer.

FineMark National Bank & Trust complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAAA). During the interview process, you may be asked questions concerning your ability to perform job-related functions. As an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer, FineMark National Bank & Trust adheres to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin and status as an individual with a disability or protected veteran. We assure you that your opportunity for employment with FineMark depends solely upon your qualifications.

FineMark is a Drug-Free Workplace. Before hire, drug tests are conducted for all positions. Drug and alcohol tests may be conducted during employment. You may request a copy of FineMark National Bank & Trust’s Drug-Free Workplace Policy by contacting 239.461.3896.