Security Master Data Associate — Elevate Investment Operations

Recruiting Resources, Inc.; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Recruiting Resources, Inc. is partnering with a leading global investment management firm to hire an Associate for Reference Data / Security Master Data in its Investment Operations team.

This role focuses on maintaining security master and investment reference data supporting trading, accounting, risk management, and reporting across fixed income, private credit, and structured products. You will collaborate with portfolio managers, traders, operations, and technology teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• 3–6+ years in investment operations, security master, reference data, asset servicing, or similar.
• Experience with fixed income, private credit, or structured products preferred.
• Ability to interpret investment documents and extract key security information.
• Strong understanding of investment operations and security lifecycle.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain securities across internal investment platforms.
• Review legal and credit documentation to extract and validate key security terms.
• Maintain accurate security reference data across multiple investment systems.
• Partner with investment, trading, operations, and technology teams on new security onboarding and data issue resolution.
• Perform reconciliations and data quality reviews for accurate investment reporting.
• Support system enhancements, testing, and process improvement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, controls, and efficiency.
• Participate in projects to enhance security master and reference data processes.

Skills

Investment Operations

Reference Data

Security Master Data

Data Validation

Advanced Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Everest

VPM

Thinkfolio

PAM

Markit EDM

Bloomberg

Job description

Recruiting Resources, Inc. is partnering with a leading global investment management firm to hire an Associate for Reference Data / Security Master Data in its Investment Operations team.

This role focuses on maintaining security master and investment reference data supporting trading, accounting, risk management, and reporting across fixed income, private credit, and structured products. You will collaborate with portfolio managers, traders, operations, and technology teams to ensure