Guggenheim Partners

Operations Associate or Sr. Associate (Structured Funding) - Guggenheim Treasury Services

Guggenheim Partners • $90K — $140K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Minimum 2 years in operations, middle office, or treasury functions in financial services.
  • General knowledge of repos, securities lending, derivatives, and other funding instruments.
  • Operational knowledge of trade lifecycle management and collateral management.
  • Proficiency in advanced Excel and data analysis tools.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the full lifecycle of trading and structured funding transactions from capture to settlement.
  • Book transactions accurately and timely in risk systems across platforms.
  • Support customized financing solutions including repo and securities lending.
  • Assist in developing control frameworks for regulatory compliance and risk management.
  • Propose process improvements to enhance operational efficiency and resiliency.
  • Work collaboratively with traders, structurers, and legal teams to ensure smooth execution of transactions.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment in structured financing.
  • Engagement with a diverse range of financial products and bespoke solutions.
  • Collaborative work culture with a focus on stakeholder partnership.
  • Visibility into both trading and funding entities, enhancing professional growth.
  • Strong emphasis on innovation and continuous learning in operations.
Full Job Description

Job Description:

Position Summary

Guggenheim Treasury Services (GTS), a structured financing business within Guggenheim Partners, is seeking an exceptional operations professional to join its team. This individual will play a pivotal role in supporting complex funding transactions, ensuring operational excellence for the business, and partnering closely with front office, risk, finance, and technology teams. The ideal candidate should be: detail-oriented, innovative, and willing to learn; takes ownership of processes and manages time efficiently; and possesses analytical and problem-solving skills.


This role is expected to report onsite in the Chicago office at least 4 days per week.


Essential Job Functions
  • Trade Lifecycle Management: Play a pivotal role in full lifecycle of trading and structured funding transactions, from trade capture and affirmation through settlement, collateral, and reconciliations.
  • Transaction Booking: Ensure accurate and timely booking of transactions into trade capture and risk systems, maintaining consistency across front-to-back platforms.
  • Structured Funding Operations: Support bespoke financing and liquidity solutions, including repo, securities lending, derivatives, and structured note issuances.
  • Risk & Control Oversight: Assist in creating control frameworks to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and market standards. Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve operational risks.
  • Process Optimization: Propose initiatives to streamline workflows, automate processes, and enhance operational resiliency across funding and trading businesses.
  • Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate with traders, structurers, treasury, legal, compliance, and technology teams to enable smooth execution of complex transactions.

Preferred Qualifications
  • General knowledge of products such as repos, securities lending, derivatives, commercial paper, and other funding instruments.
  • Operational knowledge in trade lifecycle management, transaction booking, collateral management, and settlement processes.
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to influence and partner across teams.


Basic Qualifications
  • Completion of a Bachelor’s degree.
  • A minimum of 2 years of experience in operations, middle office, or treasury functions within financial services is required, ideally with exposure to trading and structured funding.
  • Proficiency with trade capture and operational processes, as well as advanced Excel and data analysis tools
 Salary

  • Annual base salary between $90,000 and $140,000.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary range for this position. Actual base salaries may vary depending on factors such as location and experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components such as incentive compensation.



About Guggenheim Treasury Services

Guggenheim Treasury Services (GTS) is a dynamic, fast-paced structured funding business within Guggenheim Partners. We engage in a wide variety of structured funding transactions, including repo, securities lending, total return swaps and other custom arrangements, across equities and fixed income. Our platform operates across a multi-entity structure — including trading, hedging, and funding entities — designed to optimize regulatory capital and provide bespoke funding solutions to clients. A portion of our business is conducted through an SEC-registered security-based swap dealer (SBSD), with additional activity conducted through unregulated entities.

About Guggenheim Partners

Guggenheim Partners is a global investment and advisory firm with more than $310 billion in assets under management. The firm provides expertise in investment management, investment banking, and insurance services to institutions, governments, and individuals. Guggenheim Partners is headquartered in New York City and has offices in more than 25 cities worldwide. The firm was founded in 1999 by a group of senior executives from Salomon Brothers.
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