BNY Mellon

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BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world's top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration. Known as the “bank of banks” - 97% of the world’s top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital.

With over 238 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we’re approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what #LifeAtBNYMellon is all about.

This role is located in Wrocław, Poland – hybrid model

Job title in contract: Associate, Valuations/Pricing II

Role overview:

Under the direction of the Team Manager, the Senior Analyst is responsible for acting as daily contact person for designated clients/ KVGs. He/ She is responsible for the valuation of assets, provision of prices to the clients, validating of client’s prices and performing the Market conformity check. The Specialist supports the Team Manager and other team members in ensuring that all controls and procedures being performed as well as helping to ensure that service levels meet and exceed client/KVG regulatory and legal requirements.

The position requires good knowledge of accounting conventions and techniques, good understanding of accounting systems, work flows, procedures and controls and quality standards, good understanding of custody and cash setups as well as a solid understanding of the client/ KVG legal and market requirements.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Daily processing of internal pricing process including quality checks to ensure complete and correct pricing of all assets and providing respective reports to clients and internal teams / internal fund accounting system 
• Daily price validation of clients Valuation data and uploading data to internal fund accounting system
• Daily processing of market conformity checks of new trades including respective clarification / escalation and follow up internally and with clients
• Regular communication with pricing vendors on pricing challenges as well as coordination of setup of new products 
• Ensuring that daily workflows, procedures and controls are effectively executed in a timely manner
• Self-dependent processing of all regular tasks as well as assigned special tasks and assisting other team member in their daily work
• Timely processing of all external and internal ad hoc requests
• Regular Interaction with other BNY Departments (internal and external) on regular tasks and issues
• Creation, documentation and optimization of workflows, processes and quality assurance standards in collaboration with the Team Manager in accordance with BNYM procedures and controls, legal and client/KVG requirements
• Preparation of the relevant documentation for external and internal audit in close cooperation with other senior team members and / or team lead

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bank or business education with specialization and experience in fund accounting within Depotbank and / or KVG
• Proven experience with standard Microsoft Office applications (particularly Excel and Word, Access & VBA a plus)
• Significant work experience (> 3 years), ideally in a Market Data or Pricing environment
• Good experience in a Financial Services or Accounting or investment administration environment 
• Good knowledge of instrument characteristics and especially the pricing of Equities, Bonds, Derivatives, OTCs, FX and other exotic products
• Good understanding / experience with Options, Swaps, Structured Products and Loans is a plus
• Self-Driven and responsible person to fully complete assigned tasks
• Act as role model for other team members and execute best practice
• Eager to attain the knowledge of relevant products and business processes
• Good communicator and Team playing spirit is a must
• Open minded approach to understand Fund Accounting related processes to be able to understand how your job will impact clients and other departments of the company 
• Preferred to have Process Improvement experiences/ skills, e.g. to design/establish new detailed processes, Documentation skills, e.g. procedures/manual
• Strong Risk Control: monitoring and adhering legal and compliance responsibilities
• Fluent written / verbal English, German skills will be an asset.

Our Benefits:

• Full time contract of employment
• City Centre locations close to main railway station and flexible working arrangements
• Flexible benefits package, including life and medical insurance, health screening, fitness discount programme, employee assistance program
• Award-winning Wellbeing Program supporting you with your unique health and wellbeing needs
• Pension scheme
• On-site childcare and a parental buddy programme
• Exciting opportunities for career and global mobility
• Diverse and inclusive environment
• Employee Referral Program
• Recognition programmes
• A multitude of opportunities to get involved in charity projects and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

At BNY Mellon, our inclusive culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:

• Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies & Top 20 for Diversity and Inclusion
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI)
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score
• 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 100% score Corporate Equality Index
• CDP’s Climate Change ‘A List’

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BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

Our ambition is to build the best global team – one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve – and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.