Counterparty Management & Administration Senior Associate

Role Summary

We are seeking a Counterparty Management & Administration Senior Associate to join our counterparty relationship and trading documentation team. This team facilitates onboarding, trading documentation, KYC, regulatory reporting, and other operational pipeline matters.

Responsibilities

• Shepherd and execute end-to-end trading counterparty onboarding process, including:
• Assessing trading needs across products and ensuring proper documentation is established
• Validating that legal agreements align with account structure, current requirements, and intended trading activity
• Gathering due diligence information
• Cooking and responding to counterparty questions
• Issuing escalation and resolution management
• Updating accounts with counterparties on legal agreements and contracts, including ISDA Master Agreements, MSFTAs, GMRA/MRA, and other trading agreements and counterparty documents
• Maintain counterparty metadata in a proprietary database and other third-party systems
• Collaborate with counterparties and internal colleagues, including Legal, Account Management, Portfolio Management, Operations, Transitions, and Collateral, etc., to ensure accounts are fully trade-ready by fund launch date(s)
• Identify manual process pain points and contribute to automation and workflow enhancements (e.g., industry solutions, reporting tools, onboarding platforms)
• Provide oversight and quality control of outsourced and offshore resources supporting documentation, system updates, and reporting
• Support ongoing reporting and account maintenance as required with counterparties (e.g., AUM, KYC/CDD refresh, tax forms, etc.)
• Ad-hoc projects, as assigned

Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree
• Minimum three years of professional experience at an asset manager, investment bank or investment advisor with one or more of the following:
• Counterparty onboarding documentation at an asset manager or broker-dealer
• US Patriot’s Act and various Know-Your-Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), or Customer Due Diligence requirements (Dodd-Frank, EMIR reporting requirements, etc.)
• Third-party or client onboarding, KYC or documentation platforms or applications (including S&P Counterparty Manager, ISDA Amend, and FIA Tech DOCS)
• Working knowledge of derivatives or forward/financing transactions, sufficient to identify required documentation, currencies, collateral terms, and clearing arrangements
• Working knowledge of various master agreements (including ISDA Master Agreement and Credit Support Annex, Master Repurchase Agreement/Global Master Repurchase Agreement, Master Securities Forward Transaction Agreement, Prime Brokerage Documentation)
• Experience with MS suite of applications, including Excel, SmartSheets or other similar database systems and Copilot is desired
• Demonstrated curiosity around emerging tools and technologies, including AI, to improve efficiency and transparency

Professional Skills Requirements

• Exceptional Organizational Skills and Resourcefulness
• Self-motivated, committed to excellence, demonstrates attention to detail, and possesses strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Adaptability and Collaboration
• Integrity and Continuous Learning

Pay

$ 100,000.00 - $ 112,500.00

Benefits

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other basis such as medical condition, or marital status under applicable laws.

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