American Century Investments

Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.

Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.

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Job Summary:

American Century Investments is searching for a Middle Office Operations Senior Specialist to support all functions of global markets, including but not limited to responsibility for market due diligence, risk identification, procedure improvements/controls, timely and accurate documentation, and professional communication to portfolio management and custodian. This role is also critical in system setup and configuration for trading in markets and launching portfolios. This position is based out of our Santa Clara, CA office.

Job Responsibilities:

• Monitor for and assess impacts of significant changes in markets and take appropriate actions to include notification to other Investment Operations teams
• Responsible for ensuring trade settlements in different world markets
• Monitor and process trade confirmations in multiple platforms and markets
• Support end of the day settlements functions linked to T+1 settlements
• Ensure internal systems and workflows are accurately set up
• Work closely with other teams within Investment Operations to ensure accurate account positions and trade settlements
• Ensure appropriate controls are in place, driving operational improvements and maintaining documentation
• Build and maintain relationships with brokers, banks, and other related counterparties and raise concerns to address situations in a timely manner
• Maintain knowledge of market-specific processes
• Effectively communicate with internal business partners and clients
• Independently research sophisticated issues and contribute to special projects/performing unique functions with minimal direction from the manager
• Act as a resource for needed approvals, signatory items, and custodial call-backs
• Provide guidance to other team members on complicated issues
• Organize proper individuals and teams to analyze and troubleshoot issues through the solution phase

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, and/or relevant related work experience
• 3-5 years experience working in Middle-Office or Back-office in a similar role involving custody, mutual fund accounting, and/or investment operations.
• ETF and SMA knowledge preferred
• Support End of Day Settlement Activities (5:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST)
• Strong computer skills including, Microsoft Excel & Word, Bloomberg, and Visio; knowledge of Tableau preferred
• Demonstrating our Winning Behaviors - Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitive Drive
• Ability to work independently, effectively prioritize work, and recognize and raise issues in a timely manner
• Researching and resolving issues based on the application of previous experience
• Motivation and proficiency to drive personal development and improve the current process
• High attention to detail
• Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance

Working Conditions

• Appropriate coverage of primary responsibilities must be arranged prior to scheduled absences being approved
• Flexibility to work overtime may be required with little advance notice to complete projects on time

For NY and CA based candidates, the salary range for this role is $97,800 - $128,600. Actual offers are based on various factors including but not limited to a candidate’s location, skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. This position is eligible for cash incentive providing the potential to earn more.

Additional Requirements:

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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