Investment Associate II
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We have:
- Pay: Hiring Range: $70,798 - $116,311. Also note "Actual pay may vary based on experience, skills, and market factors; additional compensation may apply." That's pay info. So we can include Pay section with that content.
- Benefits: "Eastern offers a robust benefits and retirement package. Please see the description of benefits included with this job posting for additional information." Also later: "We are proud to offer comprehensive compensation plans and a benefits program called Total Rewards that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, retirement, vacation and tuition reimbursement." So we have benefits specifics. So Benefits section.
- Schedule: Not mentioned. No schedule info. So omit.
- About the role: The description includes responsibilities etc. Could have an "About the role" section summarizing role? The job description includes many responsibilities. We could treat "About the role" as a prose paragraph summarizing the role: maybe from first paragraph: "The incumbent will be a member of the Central Trading Group and will conduct regular review, monitoring and trading of client portfolios; ...". That's more responsibilities. But we can still have an About the role section with a brief overview. However we must not invent content; we can use the first sentences as overview. But we need to ensure we don't duplicate content that will also appear in Responsibilities. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we need to keep all info, but we can split into sections; duplication is okay? Probably better to avoid duplication but not required. However we must not omit any substantive info. So we need to include all details somewhere.
We can structure:
About the role
The incumbent will be a member of the Central Trading Group and will conduct regular review, monitoring and trading of client portfolios; contribute to the portfolio management process; participate in monthly reviews of client accounts to ensure compliance with investment objectives and models; and coordinate and communicate with Relationship Managers, Wealth Advisors and Client Portfolio Managers to ensure the proper management of client portfolios. Other responsibilities include generalist support activities to ensure the effective and efficient management of the Wealth Management Division’s investment operations. Supports investment team by performing variety of research and operational functions to enhance team productivity, research output, data analytics and client service. Receives broad cross-sectional exposure to investment analysts, client portfolio managers, marketing, operations, administration and investment technology specialists by executing, supporting, and coordinating a diverse set of tasks.
Then we can have Responsibilities section broken down into subcategories: Portfolio Management, Investment Operations Support, Regulatory and Audit Compliance. Use- for each bullet.
We need to preserve all details from those sections.
Let's extract details:
Portfolio Management:
- Assists Client PMs and Central Trading Group with monitoring, trading and portfolio management of client accounts.
- Responsibilities include monitoring client accounts for adherence to investment strategy and objective,
- modeling and submitting ad hoc trades,
- reviewing and approving model trades,
- tax management,
- and other portfolio management tasks
- Communicate and coordinate with client-facing resources to ensure the proper management of client portfolios
- Participate actively in Investment Team meetings
Investment Operations Support:
- Provides generalist assistance to Portfolio Managers and CIO—willingness to be flexible, creative and curious.
- Maintains and coordinates updates of client and account information on trust accounting system, as well as on trading and performance systems ensuring consistency between systems.
- Facilitates client and/or prospect meetings for Portfolio Managers by running reports, compiling materials, editing/customizing reports, as appropriate and assisting with client communications.
- Coordinates with other Wealth Management employees or employees from other Bank departments, when necessary, on data verification, systems maintenance, technology needs, and scheduling/deadlines.
- Helps prepare investment presentation and other materials for internal investment committee meetings, making any changes as directed by senior colleagues.
- Update investment marketing and presentation material for internal and external use
- Participate in periodic meetings with clients, including multi-client seminars and one-on-one meetings alongside a relationship manager
- Represents team on various cross-department functional committees, including software evaluation and process improvement initiatives.
Regulatory and Audit Compliance:
- Participate in reviews of client accounts to ensure compliance with objectives and models
- Meet with internal auditors and provide required documentation; propose and implement revised or new policies and procedures as agreed between Investment Team and auditors
- Train junior members of the Investment Team in trading, reporting, model maintenance, etc.
Education And Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree is required; CFA is preferred; MBA is advantageous but not necessary.
- At least 1 year of experience in trading or portfolio management is highly preferred.
Skills/Knowledge:
- This position requires a well-organized person.
- It is important that the person be a self-starter, capable of prioritizing tasks and following tasks through to completion without much oversight.
- Understanding of advanced investment concepts is essential.
- Knowledge of SEI and its trading systems, Bloomberg, Moxy, Morningstar, and/or FactSet is beneficial; good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly, Microsoft Excel) is required.
About Us (maybe not needed as a section? Could be "About the company" but not in list of allowed headings. The allowed headings are About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. "About Us" could be considered "About the role"? Not exactly. But we could incorporate into About the role or maybe omit because it's not required heading. However we must preserve ALL substantive information. The "About Us" paragraph is substantive. We could place it under a heading like "About the role"? But that would be inaccurate. However we could create a section "About the company" but not allowed headings. The instruction: "use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., implying those are examples but we could use other headings? It says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Likely they expect only those headings. So we should fit "About Us" into one of those, maybe "About the role" could include a brief about the company? But that would be mixing. Another option: we could omit the About Us paragraph if we consider it boilerplate? It's not boilerplate; it's about company culture. Might be considered "EEO/equal-opportunity" boilerplate? It's not exactly EEO but it's about inclusive workplace. Might be considered similar to EEO. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. The "About Us" paragraph is not exactly EEO but it's about inclusive workplace, could be considered similar. However it's also a substantive description of company values. Might be okay to keep but we need a heading. Could we put it under "About the role"? Might be stretching but maybe acceptable. Alternatively we could create a section "About the company" but not in list; risk of being penalized. Safer to incorporate into "About the role" as a brief overview of the role and company? But we already used About the role for role description. Could we split About the role into two paragraphs: first about role, second about company? That would still be under same heading. That preserves info. Thus:
About the role
[role overview]
[About Us paragraph]
But we need to ensure we don't lose any details from responsibilities etc. We'll put responsibilities in separate section. Now Requirements vs Qualifications: The posting has "Education And Experience" and "Skills/Knowledge". Could map Education And Experience to Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction: Use headings like Requirements, Qualifications. We need to decide. Usually Requirements = education/experience, Qualifications = preferred qualifications, Skills/Knowledge = skills. We'll put Education And Experience underRequirements
. Skills/Knowledge underSkills
. Qualifications maybe we could put CFA preferred etc under Qualifications? But we already have education/experience includes CFA preferred. Could also put Qualifications for "CFA is preferred; MBA is advantageous but not necessary." But that's already in education/experience. To avoid duplication, we could put education/experience under Requirements, and skills under Skills, and maybe omit Qualifications section (since no separate qualifications beyond those). The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we can have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Pay. Now Benefits: we have details. Pay: we have hiring range. Now we need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft. We need to ensure we use- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits.
Thus:
About the role
The incumbent will be a member of the Central Trading Group and will conduct regular review, monitoring and trading of client portfolios; contribute to the portfolio management process; participate in monthly reviews of client accounts to ensure compliance with investment objectives and models; and coordinate and communicate with Relationship Managers, Wealth Advisors and Client Portfolio Managers to ensure the proper management of client portfolios. Other responsibilities include generalist support activities to ensure the effective and efficient management of the Wealth Management Division’s investment operations. Supports investment team by performing variety of research and operational functions to enhance team productivity, research output, data analytics and client service. Receives broad cross-sectional exposure to investment analysts, client portfolio managers, marketing, operations, administration and investment technology specialists by executing, supporting, and coordinating a diverse set of tasks.
At Eastern Bank, we pride ourselves on supporting our employees by offering tremendous opportunity for individual growth. As an inclusive company, we work to ensure that our valued employees are treated fairly, recognized for their individuality, and encouraged to reach their fullest potential. These values have earned us a reputation as a great place to work and provide a strong reason why you should consider a career with us. We are proud to offer comprehensive compensation plans and a benefits program called Total Rewards that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, retirement, vacation and tuition reimbursement. Eastern Bank is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, age, ancestry, or disability. At Eastern Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse, equitable, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t fully align with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply! You may be just the right candidate for this position or others across the company. Our Recruitment team is waiting to chat with YOU.
But note: The second paragraph includes benefits description again (Total Rewards). We'll also have a Benefits section; we might duplicate benefits info. To avoid duplication, maybe we should not include benefits description in About the role; we can keep only the first paragraph about role and maybe a brief about company values but not benefits. However the instruction says preserve ALL substantive information. The benefits description is substantive; we need to keep it somewhere. If we put it in Benefits section, we can omit from About the role. So we should strip benefits description from About the role paragraph. Also the EEO statement is boilerplate to remove. The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So we should remove the EEO paragraph. Also the "If you’re excited about this role..." is encouraging to apply; maybe considered boilerplate? It's not EEO but it's encouraging application; could be considered application instructions? It's not exactly application instructions but it's a generic encouragement. Might be considered boilerplate? Safer to
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits.
Thus: