New Business Coordinator
Our Company
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $24.37 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $2.09 trillion in assets under management at December 31, 2012, State Street operates in 29 countries and more than 100 geographic markets and employs 29,660 worldwide. For more information, visit State Street's website at www.statestreet.com.
Promoting a culture of excellence
With more than 29,660 employees across 29 countries, at State Street, our people are our greatest asset. We recognize that highly skilled, engaged and productive employees are essential to our success. Our company values reflect our commitment to employee engagement, Global Inclusion and corporate social responsibility -- to help you build a fulfilling career. Around the world, we aim to be an employer of choice by offering competitive compensation and benefits, personal and professional development opportunities, and a work environment that promotes a diverse array of people, ideas and skills.
We're a company that insists on, and rewards, performance excellence. We know our success hinges on attracting the best people to join us -- people like you.
We encourage you to explore the possibilities that a career at State Street can offer you.
State Street is committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Job Description
This role will involve working on the New Business team within the Client Administration Unit. The role involves working as part of a small team that are responsible for coordinating new client take-on, transitions, restructures and other client events. Team members manage client events as projects ensuring that detailed planning is completed, all risks and issues are considered, all parties are kept informed and that all events are executed in an efficient, timely manner.
This role is an excellent opportunity to develop detailed knowledge of investment management operations. It will present opportunities to become involved in a variety of projects and client events, and to represent the department in cross business meetings. It will be necessary to develop relationships both internally within SSGA Ireland (with relationship managers, portfolio managers, operational teams etc) and also with other SSgA offices.
The successful candidate will have a good basic understanding of the fund industry, asset classes and fund structures. They will have the ability to work on their own initiative, to learn new activities quickly, to question processes and to communicate clearly.
Primary Responsibilities include
- Member of New Business Team within the Client Administration Unit.
- Work with the team to ensure that all client and portfolio events are scoped, planned and executed in an efficient manner
- Attend and participate in meetings to plan proposed events and communicate event requirements to all parties involved
- Assist client facing teams with client event queries
- Work with colleagues to develop procedures for each event type and to continually strengthen controls
- Minimise errors. When they do occur, ensure that they are managed and communicated appropriately and as per SSgA policy
- Develop and maintain good working relationships internal and external to SSgA Ireland
- Active participation in team and department meetings
Job Specification
The ideal candidate should:
- Have strong relevant experience in the Financial Services industry.
- Be ambitious and motivated to succeed within an operational environment.
- Have a high level of accuracy, good attention to detail, a strong awareness of risk, and understand the implication of errors.
- Be capable of working on own initiative
- Have strong organisational abilities
- Have a structured approach to work with the ability to be flexible when required
- Have strong interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal). Be capable of building cohesive relationships within the department and across other departments.
- Be a good team player.
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