Transaction Operations Specialist

About the role

Chatham invests in employees by offering professional development opportunities to help you grow in your career. You will partner with talented subject matter experts, work on complex projects, and contribute to the value Chatham delivers every day.

Role Summary

Chatham's Financial Risk Advisory sector is the market leader in financial risk management and capital optimization strategies for institutional real estate owners and developers. Our independent advisory approach is supported by technology tools to help investors understand financial trade-offs and execute strategies at the individual asset and portfolio level.

Financial Risk Advisory's hedging advisory teams continue to see robust interest rate and FX hedging transaction volumes. As a result, we are looking to hire Transaction Operations Specialists. This role will focus on processing trades in our proprietary systems and managing pre and post trade documentation processes for our interest rate and foreign currency hedging services. The purpose of the role is to continuously improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of our hedging operations as we serve clients with excellence both before and after transactions are executed.

In This Role You Will

• Coordinate trade documentation with clients and dealer banks from pre-trade discussions through trade execution and completion.
• Upload transaction details and transaction documents in the transaction management database.
• Assist with ISDA documentation by coordinating with internal ISDA experts, attorneys and banks.
• Confirm and check economic details of transactions prior to execution and after execution to ensure proper entry.
• Assist clients to ensure their funds flow properly on all settlements.
• Manage the tracking and reporting of transaction operations, including: outstanding documentation, providing updates and reminders to clients, monitoring the team’s transaction trends, new pipeline deals and deal deadlines, etc.
• Work closely with the centralized documentation and transaction management team to coordinate compliance requirements such as Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and similar requirements.
• Understand the new derivatives regulations and their impact on the operational aspects of hedging; serve as a resource on derivatives regulation from a process perspective.
• Assist in training other team members on salient documentation and regulatory issues from an operational perspective.

Your Impact

This is an important role within the team, and individuals who perform excellently will be highly valued team members. Career development opportunities involve managing cross-team processes, relationships with counterparty banks, and becoming a resident expert in trade operations and derivatives documentation.

Contributors To Your Success

• Experience in managing and organizing documents, trade operations and/or operational process improvement is preferred.
• Skills in organization, proactive initiative, attention to detail, consistent accuracy, strong verbal and written communication are critical.
• Capacity to quickly shift from one task to another in order to keep up with the fast-paced working environment.
• The ability to create, maintain, and improve highly effective processes is required.
• Experience in bank operations or as a paralegal is a plus, but not a requirement.
• A degree in finance is not required, but comfort with math is important.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional work experience preferred.

About Chatham Financial

Chatham Financial is the leading independent capital markets advisor, delivering an integrated blend of expert advice and powerful technology to help you reduce risk and seize opportunity. With decades of capital markets strategy, execution, monitoring, and performance expertise, we serve as an unwavering advocate for your best interests and your innovation partner. Our technology platform unifies data across assets, debt, and derivatives, giving you unmatched agility, transparency, and insight.