Trade Associate - Fixed Income

Responsibilities

• Work closely with prime brokers, market makers, custodians, and other counterparties to support best execution and improve fund efficiency.
• Monitor market trends, economic developments, portfolio positioning, and performance relative to fund objectives and direct competitors.
• Build strong working relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders, and perform additional duties as assigned.
• Perform daily trading operations, including trade allocation, settlement monitoring, and reconciliation across fixed income and equity activity.
• Cash and Collateral Management Prepare and distribute daily cash position reports for assigned ETF portfolios.
• Monitor inflows and outflows, investigate exceptions or variances, and communicate cash movements to internal and external stakeholders.
• Track account balances and forecast liquidity needs to maintain appropriate cash and collateral coverage.
• Coordinate collateral and margin activity with counterparties and support the timely movement or return of excess cash and collateral.
• Use Bloomberg and counterparty portals to gather information, investigate breaks, and resolve discrepancies.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of financial markets, trading strategies, trade settlement, reconciliation, and collateral processes.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite.
• Strong analytical, communication, and complex problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage deadlines, maintain attention to detail, and perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred

• Qualifications Experience with trading platforms, order management systems, and post-trade processing.
• Knowledge of cash forecasting, reconciliation, margin, and collateral-management processes.
• Experience working for a firm that manages investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements related to trading activities.
• Proximity to Chicago or Omaha preferred

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, a quantitative discipline, or equivalent relevant experience. At least 3 years of experience in institutional trading, portfolio operations, treasury, or cash management, including demonstrated fixed income trading experience. Institutional or registered investment adviser trading experience. Proficiency with Bloomberg or a comparable institutional trading platform.

Preferred

The Tidal Financial Group is a leading ETF investment technology platform dedicated to creating, operating, and growing ETFs. We combine expertise and innovative partnership approaches to offer comprehensive, value-generating ETF solutions. Our platform offers best-in-class strategic guidance, product planning, trust and fund services, legal support, operations support, marketing and research, and sales and distribution services.