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Jefferies

Securities Reference Associate

Jefferies, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, 07390

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Jefferies Group LLC, the largest independent, global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm headquartered in the U.S. focused on serving clients for 60 years, is a leader in providing insight, expertise and execution to investors, companies and governments. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company.

Team

Team supports and is responsible for number of corporate functions and services.

Active maintenance of Jefferies Security Master (JSEC) - the firm’s internal security master reference database that utilizes multiple internal and external reference data sources. Part of the core services include providing internal uniform product classification for all securities of interest including OTC and exchange traded derivatives, providing horizontal and vertical product identifiers cross references for securities of interest and providing security attributes.

Securities set up and maintenance required for straight through transaction processing within firm’s settlement systems

End of the day price validation process for customer held positions

Regular facetime with corporate business users is expected and required. As part of this process, team monitors on global basis various users reports that utilize master data maintained by the team. Team members interact with various business users and address any related exceptions.

Primary Responsibilities

Perform data reconciliations functions, that will include monitoring and resolving of any internal data inconsistencies for securities set ups. These will include follow ups with various source data owners and business subject matter experts.

Perform cross data validations and data quality checks on securities data in various reports being utilized by corporate users.

Perform analysis and testing for any new projects involving any new data sources or new data services.

Set up and maintain securities in main fixed income and equities settlement systems

Perform price validation checks in firm’s main settlement systems

Run ad hoc queries for various corporate uses.

Required Background

2-4

years of relevant experience with financial industry, preferably security reference data exposure.

Knowledge of Japanese securities a plus

Bloomberg terminal usage a big plus

Intermediate/advanced level in Microsoft Excel a must: comfortable using pivot tables, v-look ups/advanced lookup formulas, conditional formulas

Familiarity with trade bookings/trade data support or settlements a plus

Strong attention to details and problem-solving skills

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Prior Fixed Income and or Equities Reference or PricingData Experience preferable

SQL language a plus.

Knowledge of Japanese language a plus

Primary Location: Jersey City, NJ Full Time Salary Range of $110,000-$130,000.

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