Operations Analyst (Ensign Peak Advisors)

The Operations Analyst – Public Markets assists the Church’s investment manager in the trade support, reconciliation, analysis, and reporting of public equity and public credit investments.  The middle-office role supports front-office investment teams and back-office partners to ensure accurate trade processing, position and cash reconciliation, and strong operational controls across public market portfolios.

• Provide day-to-day trade support for public equity and public credit transactions, including trade capture, confirmation, and settlement monitoring

• Reconcile trades, positions, cash, and income between internal systems, custodians, brokers, and other third-party providers

• Analyze and resolve trade breaks, reconciliation exceptions, and settlement issues in a timely manner

• Coordinate with investment teams, custodians, brokers, and internal accounting and treasury personnel to ensure accurate and timely processing of transactions

• Assist in the processing and review of corporate actions, interest payments, dividends, maturities, and other lifecycle events

• Support valuation, pricing, and P&L review processes for public market portfolios

• Assist in developing, documenting, and improving operational processes and internal controls related to public market operations

• Support responses to internal audit requests, compliance inquiries and other operational reviews

• Compile, process and analyze third-party reporting related to public equity and public credit investments 

• Assist investment teams and operations personnel with ad hoc projects as assigned

• Minimum 1-2 years' experience in investment operations, fund accounting, auditing or similar

• Bachelor's degree with emphasis in accounting, finance, or similar

• Demonstrated analytical and organizational skills 

• Facility in Excel and other Microsoft Office tools