Senior Associate, Valuations

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Senior Associate, Valuation

Locations: Singapore | Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GlobeOp is a leading provider of cloud-based fund services, technology and mobility-enabled infrastructure for hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity, and managed accounts

With a base of fund strategies that include fixed income, volatility and active trading, we offer: Middle office, accounting and management products

·        Tax services for hedge funds, fund of funds and private equity funds

·        Derivatives processing, valuations agent, syndicated bank loans processing

·        Regulatory and analytics services

·        Managed services IT/data center and business process outsourcing

·        All available on a stand-alone basis to institutional clients

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans, Centralized location – 2 minutes’ walk from Raffles Place MRT
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave and Well-Stocked Pantry
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Education: Paid further education opportunities for employees who are eligible
• Extra Perks: Bonus Scheme, SS&C Stock(s) Allocation for employees who are eligible

What You Will Get To Do:

SS&C is looking for a dynamic individual to join the Valuations team based in Singapore. The Valuations team is responsible for independently pricing the portfolios of clients in line with their valuation policy and play a key role in ensuring integrity of the NAV published. Valuations are produced using market data from vendors and internal pricing analytics, which are then benchmarked to reference valuations to highlight and investigate exceptions.

The successful candidate will have effective people skills to collaborate with various interdepartmental teams on valuation matters and have knowledge on various asset classes and pricing models. The candidate will have the ability to work independently on a wide variety of tasks and display an aptitude for problem solving. They will assist in the monthly and quarterly tasks in a timely manner, and where necessary escalating valuation issues to Management/client.

• Perform independent valuation control across a variety of financial instruments including various OTC derivatives using approved in-house valuation models or third-party independent vendors.
• Evaluate the integrity of vendor supplied pricing data against market movements and alternative sources
• Resolve price challenges by validating market data and reviewing pricing models
• Input and maintain information on various valuation systems / databases consistent with client pricing policies.
• Assist in projects to improve valuation control and efficiency, helping generate innovative ideas, and challenge the status quo.
• Review P&L queries and monthly valuation reconciliations, analyzing and commenting on exceptions for the client review.
• To perform UAT testing new valuation methodologies for new instrument types and provide feedback to quantitative development team

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantitative Finance, Statistics, or other quantitative subjects
• 2 – 5 years financial markets experience
• Knowledge on financial instruments such as Fixed Income,
• Interest Rate Swaps, Equity options, FX options, Swaptions, etc.
• Experience with Bloomberg will be an advantage
• CFA/FRM qualification will be an advantage
• Demonstrate excellent critical thinking skills
• Proficient in Excel, programming experience in VBA is a plus. Ability to work on tight deadlines.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.