Trading Operations Associate

00052 American Enterprise Investment; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Ameriprise Financial is seeking a Trading Assistant to support traders and advisors, ensuring accurate and compliant trade execution. You will engage with business partners, assist with inquiries, and contribute to Best Execution reporting and regulatory initiatives.

You’ll participate in improving processes, work with trading systems, and help with risk mitigation while maintaining strong relationships across teams.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Experience: 1 to 3 years of relevant experience.
• Post-secondary education and relevant work experience may be interchanged to meet the combined total years of minimum required qualifications for education and experience.
• Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate across multiple functions.
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced, regulated environment with attention to detail.
• Ability to handle communications with advisors and clients and provide resolutions.
• Ability to build strong, positive relationships and influence others without direct leadership.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Ability to learn new systems, technologies, and business processes.

Responsibilities

• Assist advisors, trading partners and home office staff with trading related questions including order activity, regulatory reporting, and trading system navigation and functionality.
• Perform order book reconciliation and trade allocation for all trading activity.
• Identify and resolve trading and settlement issues, while ensuring all required documentation is completed.
• Assist Business Analysts with report creation, generation, monitoring and analysis.
• Work with trading systems, execution quality reporting, trade reporting along with researching trading issues.
• Review trading area policies and procedures for compliance with industry and company rules and regulations, and identify opportunities for process improvements and risk mitigation.
• Provide back-up support to other departments within Capital Markets Trading and participate in special projects as needed.

Skills

Team collaboration

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

BETA host

LSEG One

BRASS

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Ameriprise Financial is seeking a Trading Assistant to support traders and advisors, ensuring accurate and compliant trade execution. You will engage with business partners, assist with inquiries, and contribute to Best Execution reporting and regulatory initiatives.

You’ll participate in improving processes, work with trading systems, and help with risk mitigation while maintaining strong relationships across teams.