Role Title: Fixed Income Trade Operations Associate Sr.

Role summary:

Works independently on standardized/recurring assignments and under the direct supervision of more senior staff on complex projects, analyses, and tasks. Independently executes the primary functions of Trade Operations, preforms and/or monitors more complex accounting and operational duties which includes post-trade processing of, fixed income instruments, derivatives, foreign exchange, fail management, and collateral management for investment vehicles servicing the institutional retail and high-net worth distribution channels.

Primary responsibilities/essential functions:

• Performs and/or monitors functions necessary to support the investment process by providing operational service to internal and external business partners
• Directly interacts with counterparties, custodians, prime brokers, and external vendors and partners with internal stakeholders including the investment group, trading, investment control, client services, legal & compliance, and other investment operations groups to instruct trade, correct trades, and resolve issues
• Functions in team may include trade confirmation, settlement, claims, client reporting inquiries, trade cover currency decisions, account onboarding, processes to support new products, ensuring regulatory compliance, and ad hoc requests
• Utilizes various internal and external systems, reports, and sources to ensure records are accurate and timely with review and approval of more senior analyst
• Maintains a high-level of attention to detail and performs self-review of work and peer review of some periodic/production work
• Identifies and assesses business risk (i.e. applicability of regulatory requirements by investment type) and determines impacts within the company and to clients
• Demonstrates initiative by identifying and communicating issues to reviewers/managers/others
• Work seamlessly with sites globally to support 24-5 operational model
• Identifies and implements process improvements
• Models skills and technical knowledge and provides support to ew associates
• May act as a resource and provide guidance to newer associates
• Provides operational and technical guidance on internal controls to other departments
• demonstrates Capital Groups Core Values and embraces an environment of inclusion and diversity of thought
• Performs additional responsibilities as assigned

• Demonstrates working knowledge of securities and investment operations, including characteristics of various investment instruments and market practices, and ability to apply them to work assignments
• Demonstrates the ability to be self-driven to understand how and why things work, the financial industry and/or the connections between process and technology
• Demonstrates working knowledge of Excel, Microsoft, and other business applications and the ability to apply them to work assignments
• Demonstrates working knowledge of functional team policies, practices and controls, and ability to apply to work assignments

• Communicates Effectively - Develops and delvers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Collaborates - Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Decision Quality - Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward
• Drives Results - consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• Plans and Aligns - Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
• Demonstrates Self- Awareness - Uses a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses
• Nimble Learning - Actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, uses both successes and failures as learning fodder