Public Markets Operations Analyst — Trade Lifecycle & Data

CFA Institute; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

CFA Institute in Singapore is hiring an Operations Analyst for its Public Markets investment operations team. The role is hands-on and suited for someone early in their career, covering post-trade operations, data handling, reporting, and day-to-day support to the investment team.

You will work on trade lifecycle activities, data accuracy, and collaborating with portfolio managers, brokers, and vendors in a lean environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business, economics, accounting or a related field.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in investment operations, middle office, trade support, portfolio operations or fund operations.
• Experience within an asset manager, hedge fund, family office, multi-family office or public markets investment platform is preferred.
• Strong understanding of trade lifecycle, reconciliations, settlements, NAV, P&L, MTM and position breaks.
• Exposure to public markets products such as equities, fixed income, FX, derivatives or multi-asset strategies.
• Equities experience is preferred, especially long/short equities.
• Experience with PMS, OMS, portfolio accounting systems, portfolio data, performance reporting, risk reporting or investment reporting would be advantageous.
• Familiarity with systems/tools such as Bloomberg, FactSet, Aladdin, Charles River, SimCorp, Geneva, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python or similar would be beneficial.
• CFA or FRM progress would be viewed positively.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical mindset and ability to manage tight timelines.
• Comfortable working in a lean team with broad responsibilities across operations, reporting, data integrity and investment support.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end trade lifecycle activities across public markets, including trade capture, confirmation, settlement follow-up, NAV review, reconciliations, P&L, MTM, cash, position and break resolution
• Maintain accurate trade, cash, position and portfolio data across internal PMS, OMS and portfolio accounting systems
• Work closely with portfolio managers, investment team members, brokers, custodians, fund administrators and vendors to resolve trade, settlement, reconciliation and reporting issues
• Support portfolio data, performance and risk-related outputs, including management reporting, investment reporting and investor reporting where required
• Assist with data quality checks and reporting accuracy as the business continues to upgrade its internal data platforms
• Use investment systems, data aggregation and analytics tools such as Bloomberg, FactSet, OMS / PMS platforms and other portfolio reporting tools
• Support process improvement initiatives across operations, reporting workflows, data controls and system usage
• Provide broader investment support within a lean team where operations covers more than standard BAU processing

Skills

Trade lifecycle understanding

Data integrity

Analytical mindset

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or related

Tools

Bloomberg

FactSet

Aladdin

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Python

PMS/OMS

Job description

CFA Institute in Singapore is hiring an Operations Analyst for its Public Markets investment operations team. The role is hands-on and suited for someone early in their career, covering post-trade operations, data handling, reporting, and day-to-day support to the investment team.

You will work on trade lifecycle activities, data accuracy, and collaborating with portfolio managers, brokers, and vendors in a lean environment.