T Rowe Price Group, Inc

Analyst, Middle Office Trade Management, Derivatives Operations

T Rowe Price Group, Inc$69K — $118K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
  • 2+ years of relevant work experience.
  • 2+ years in derivatives and trading operations preferred.
  • Knowledge of private placements is beneficial.
  • Experience in middle office, trade management or securities operations is advantageous.
  • Strong attention to detail in a fast-paced environment needed.
  • Effective communication skills for internal and external collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate accurate and timely processing of portfolio transactions.
  • Identify and resolve quality or compliance deficiencies.
  • Guide and support less experienced peers in operational controls.
  • Partner with various teams to analyze and communicate trade information.
  • Respond to operational queries and escalate complex issues as needed.
  • Prepare instructions for settlements, reconciliations, and transfers.
  • Drive initiatives to improve processes and reduce operational risk.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Annual bonus eligibility
  • Generous retirement plan
  • Hybrid work schedule
  • Health and wellness benefits, including online therapy
  • Paid time off for various needs
  • Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits.
Full Job Description

About This Position
At T. Rowe Price, our associates are empowered to do meaningful work that supports long-term client outcomes and reflects our core principles of integrity, collaboration, accountability, and excellence. This role sits within Middle Office Trade Management (MOTM), a department responsible for supporting all trade related functions across all asset classes, including ETF’s and digital assets.

This role specifically supports processes within core derivatives, private placements, and discretionary mutual fund trading. It offers the opportunity to work across the full trade lifecycle, partner closely with front office teams and external providers, and contribute to daily risk management, operational oversight, new complex products, and efficiency initiatives. This position is well suited for a professional who enjoys ownership, values strong controls, is passionate and curious to strengthen subject matterexpertiseand leadership, seeks opportunities to improve processes, and is motivated by helping scale operations to support new products and account growth.

Role Summary
As part of MOTM within Global Investment Operations (GIO), this role plays an important part in supporting the firms Middle Office trade management functions. The positionis responsible foradministering and processing the books and records for a variety of accounts, including coordinating, booking, checking, andvalidatingtrades, settlements, and reconciliations. Working under general supervision, this individual will have direct accountability for supporting derivative trades, private placement trades, discretionary trades, new

complexproductsand alternatives, as well as corporate action oversight in conjunction with outsourced providers. The individual will contribute to process improvement efforts, help drive new product variations and go-lives, and handle more advanced issues and questions elevated from less experienced staff.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate the processing of portfolio transactions, ensuring activities areaccurate,timely, and compliant with established policies, procedures, and controls.
  • Identifyquality, accuracy, or compliance deficiencies and takeappropriate correctiveaction to resolve issues and mitigate risk.
  • Guideless experienced peers and support staff on error prevention, process execution, and interpretation of operational controls.
  • Partner regularly with securities operations staff, relationship managers, investment staff, custodians, and vendors to collect, analyze, and communicate information thatimpactsaccounts and trade activity.
  • Respond to queries related to cash breaks, trade breaks, and other standard operational questions from internal and external stakeholders, escalating more complex issues asappropriate.
  • Prepare standard and some nonstandard instructions for settlements, reconciliations, transfers, and related activities.
  • Instruct team members on adjustments needed tobooksand records to ensure accuracy and completeness.
  • Drive process improvement initiatives focused on automating manual tasks, enhancing efficiency, strengthening controls, and minimizing operational risk
  • Support requirements and testing for operational support of new complex products
  • Follow established controls to check andvalidatethird-party reconciliations and support account transitions to the end-state infrastructure of outsourced providers.
  • Provide feedback, asappropriate, to management and third-party vendorsregardingtimeliness, service quality, and operational effectiveness.
  • Generate periodic reports and dashboards outlining relevant operational metrics such as error rates, recalculation rates, client satisfaction, responsiveness, and time to resolution.
  • Support a collaborative, control-oriented operating environment that reflects T. Rowe Prices commitment to operational excellence and client focus.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND
  • 2+ years of total relevant work experience

Preferred:

  • 2+ years of experience in derivatives and trade management operations
  • Knowledge of private placements
  • Experience supporting middle office, trade management, or securities operations processes across the trade lifecycle
  • Demonstrated ability toidentifyprocess gaps and drive improvements that increase efficiency and reduce operational risk
  • Ability and curiosity toleverageAI and self-help tech solutions to increase execution and drive problem solutioning
  • Strong attention to detail with the ability tomaintainaccuracy in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work across internal teams and external service providers
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, curiosity including the ability to investigate breaks, exceptions, and reconciliation issues
  • Ability to prioritize competing deadlines, work independently under general supervision, and exercise sound judgment in escalating issues

FINRA Requirements
FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.

Work Flexibility
This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to one day per week from home.

WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER APPLYING

1. You will receive an email and text message to answer a few questions to verify your eligibility. If you apply for multiple jobs, you will receive separate invitations for each role and will need to respond to each. Estimated Time Commitment: 3-5 minutes

2. If you are eligible, you will be asked to record video responses to introductory questions with our vendor partner, HireVue. Take time to read all instructions carefully before responding. Some questions may require you to respond within a set time limit, or with limited retakes. You can use this opportunity to tell us more about your background and interest than we can learn from a resume alone.Estimated Time Commitment: 20-30 minutes

Base Salary Ranges

Please review the job posting for the location of this specific opportunity.

$69,500.00 - $118,000.00 for the location of: Maryland, Colorado, Washington and remote workers
$76,500.00 - $130,000.00 for the location of: Washington, D.C.
$87,000.00 - $148,000.00 for the location of: New York, California

Placement within the range provided above is based on the individuals relevant experience and skills for the role. Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.

Benefits

We value your goals and needs, at work and in life. As an associate, you be supported with resources, benefits, and work-life balance so you can thrive in ways that matter to you.

Featured employee benefits to enrich your life:

  • Competitive compensation

  • Annual bonus eligibility

  • A generous retirement plan

  • Hybrid work schedule

  • Health and wellness benefits, including online therapy

  • Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering days

  • Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits

Learn more about our benefits.

About T Rowe Price Group, Inc

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is an American publicly owned global asset management firm that offers funds, advisory services, account management, and retirement plans and services for individuals, institutions, and financial intermediaries. The company was founded in 1937 by Thomas Rowe Price Jr. and went public in 1986. The company is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland and has offices in 16 countries worldwide. As of December 31, 2020, the company had $1.47 trillion in assets under management. The company is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol TROW.
Learn more about T Rowe Price Group, Inc
Size
7,529 employees
Market Cap
$24.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.3 billion
Founded
1937
5 Year Trend
+12.4%
Revenue
$6.2 billion
NASDAQ

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