Associate, Cash Desk Management

Key Responsibilities

• Actively monitor intraday cash positions across portfolios, incorporating multiple cash flow adjustments, funding events, and forecast updates
• Partner with Short-Term Trading to support accurate investment of excess cash and timely execution of funding actions to cover projected shortfalls
• Produce, validate, and analyze daily cash flow reporting and cash forecasting outputs; investigate breaks and resolve discrepancies
• Work closely with custodians, fund accounting, and internal operations teams to reconcile cash balances and ensure data integrity across systems
• Support client-directed subscriptions, redemptions, and ad hoc cash movements in coordination with Account Managers and Portfolio Management
• Identify process inefficiencies, control gaps, and operational risks; propose and implement enhancements with an emphasis on automation and scalability
• Contribute to cross-functional initiatives aimed at improving data quality, transparency, and straight-through processing across cash workflows
• Respond to time-sensitive and ad hoc cash-related inquiries from internal stakeholders and external partners

Technical & Analytical Focus Areas

• Analyze large cash datasets to identify trends, exceptions, and emerging liquidity risks
• Leverage Excel and related tools to build repeatable analyses, reconciliations, and controls
• Aid in system enhancements, data mapping, and UAT related to cash management, forecasting, and reporting platforms
• Support development of standardized metrics and reporting to improve visibility into cash usage, forecasting accuracy, and funding efficiency

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a quantitatively oriented field
• 3+ years of experience in asset management, financial services operations, treasury, fund accounting, or a related role
• Strong technical aptitude with demonstrated experience using Microsoft Excel for analysis (advanced formulas, lookups; VBA/SQL/Python experience a plus)
• Proven ability to work with complex data sets and reconcile information across multiple sources
• High attention to detail with a strong control mindset

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in cash management, liquidity management, treasury, or collateral-adjacent functions
• Understanding of trade lifecycle, settlement flows, and funding mechanics
• Exposure to financial systems, data feeds, or systems development / automation initiatives
• Experience working with custodians, accounting platforms, or portfolio management systems