Fixed Income Operations Manager-Coupons, Principal & Interest (Hybrid)

broadridge; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 105,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Broadridge is seeking a Fixed Income Operations Manager to lead end-to-end processing, control, and oversight of coupon, principal, and interest payments across fixed income portfolios. This role ensures accurate capture, validation, processing, reconciliation, and settlement within deadlines while maintaining strong operational controls, client service, and regulatory compliance.

You will oversee daily operations, validate accrued interest, coupon entitlements, withholding tax, and cash

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Significant experience in investment operations, custody, fund administration, or securities processing with fixed income focus.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supervising an operations team.
• Strong knowledge of fixed income instruments including bonds, notes, and asset-backed securities.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily oversight of fixed income events: coupons, principal repayments, maturities, redemptions.
• Oversee calculation, validation, and booking of accrued interest and related fees.
• Ensure timely cash receipt, reconciliation, and allocation from custodians and paying agents.
• Monitor event announcements and maintain security terms, dates, and rate resets.

Skills

Fixed income knowledge

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Investment operations systems

Job description

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you're passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.

Broadridge is hiring! We're seeking a Fixed Income Operations Manager to lead the end-to-end processing, control, and oversight of coupon, principal, and interest payments across fixed income portfolios. This role ensures that corporate action and income events are accurately captured, validated, processed, reconciled, and settled within required deadlines while maintaining strong operational controls, client service, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily oversight of fixed income events, including coupon payments, principal repayments, maturities, amortizations, redemptions, paydowns, and default-related cash flows.
• Oversee calculation, validation, and booking of accrued interest, coupon entitlements, principal proceeds, withholding tax, and related fees.
• Ensure timely receipt, reconciliation, and allocation of cash payments from custodians, depositories, paying agents, and counterparties.
• Monitor event announcements and ensure accurate setup and maintenance of security terms, payment dates, record dates, rate resets, factor changes, and election details where applicable.
• Investigate and resolve breaks, failed payments, discrepancies, and aged exceptions with internal teams, custodians, fund administrators, brokers, and external service providers.
• Review daily cash reconciliations, and approve exception resolution in accordance with established controls.
• Maintain oversight of payment processing for government, corporate, municipal, agency, mortgage-backed, asset-backed, and other fixed income instruments.
• Establish and monitor operational procedures, service-level standards, key risk indicators, and performance metrics.
• Lead root-cause analysis for recurring errors and implement process, system, and control improvements.
• Ensure adherence to internal policies, regulatory requirements, audit standards, and client or fund documentation.
• Support internal and external audits, regulatory inquiries, client reporting, and operational due diligence requests.
• Manage, coach, and develop operations staff; set priorities, review workloads, and ensure appropriate coverage for critical payment cycles.
• Participate in system implementations, automation initiatives, data-quality enhancements, and testing related to fixed income operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Significant experience in investment operations, custody, fund administration, or securities processing, with a focus on fixed income income and principal events.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supervising an operations team.
• Strong knowledge of fixed income instruments, including bonds, notes, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and floating-rate instruments.
• Understanding of coupon calculations, accrued interest, day-count conventions, payment schedules, amortization, prepayments, maturities, and redemptions.
• Experience with cash and position reconciliations, exception management, and settlement controls.
• Ability to interpret security documentation, market notices, custodian communications, and payment instructions.
• Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to manage internal and external stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and relevant investment operations, accounting, custody, or portfolio-management systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting institutional asset managers, banks, hedge funds, or fund administrators.
• Familiarity with SWIFT messaging, custodian platforms, depository processes, and corporate action or income-processing workflows.
• Knowledge of withholding tax, securities lending impacts, and cross-border fixed income payment processing.
• Experience with operational risk frameworks, process automation, and control design.

Compensation Range

The salary range for this position is between $105,000 to $130,000 USD. Broadridge considers various factors when evaluating a candidate's final salary including, but not limited to, relevant experience, location, skills, and education

Bonus Eligibility: Bonus Eligible

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