Associate Trader, Wealth Management bei Aprio
Aprio · Atlanta, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Hybrid
- Optionales Büro in Atlanta
Job Summary
What You'll Gain / Impact:
- Direct, hands-on exposure to end-to-end trading operations and model-based portfolio management within a growing wealth management platform.
- The opportunity to own meaningful automation and AI workflow initiatives that reduce manual effort and improve accuracy across the trading desk.
- Cross-functional experience working alongside advisors, portfolio management, and internal operations teams.
- A visible role in onboarding and integrating newly acquired RIA and advisor practices onto the firm's platform and models.
- Professional growth within a high-growth, innovation-driven firm committed to excellence in client outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Run post-trade audits, reconciling prior day activity in Orion Eclipse against custodian fills, and investigate discrepancies and settlement issues.
- Set accounts up to trade to their assigned model in Orion Eclipse, covering new accounts as well as allocation changes on existing accounts.
- Maintain account, model, and security data to support smooth daily trading activity, model-wide trades, and rebalancing.
- Assist with account transitions and onboarding for newly acquired RIAs and advisor practices as accounts move onto the platform and firm models.
- Respond to trade-related questions from advisors promptly and coordinate with internal operations and the investment team on day-to-day account activity, including data pulls to support model changes and portfolio reviews.
- Monitor account drift against assigned models and build and maintain recurring reporting, including dispersion and drift reviews, cash, money market, holdings reports, and reconciliation files.
- Write and maintain procedures for recurring work and keep a clear written record behind trades and exceptions.
- Execute daily trade requests in Orion Eclipse across equities, bonds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and mutual funds accurately and on time.
- Trade accounts assigned to a model, keeping holdings in line with model targets.
- Raise cash for distributions, fees, and client requests, and invest incoming contributions and new money to the assigned model.
- Trade in line with the firm's approach, client guidelines, and regulatory requirements, including managing the tax impact for clients.
- Provide desk coverage during time off, periods of market volatility, and high-volume trading days.
- Own a share of the desk's automation work: identify manual and repetitive steps in the daily trading process and rebuild them to reduce time and errors.
- Design, test, and document AI-assisted workflows and agents for reconciliation prep, exception reporting, data validation, and routine documentation.
Qualifications:
- One to three years of experience in trading, trade operations, or investment operations at an RIA, wealth management firm, or asset manager.
- Hands-on experience trading in model-based rebalancing or trade order management software — Orion Eclipse, Tamarac, iRebal, TRX, Envestnet, or similar.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major custodial platform — Schwab, Fidelity, Pershing, Altruist, or similar.
- Highly proficient in Excel, with demonstrated ability to work through large data sets accurately.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, business, mathematics, statistics, or a related field.
- SIE and applicable Series licenses, or the ability to obtain them within three months of hire.
- Experience with Python for data work — reading, reconciling, and validating trade and position files; no software engineering background required.
- Demonstrated use of tooling to remove manual steps from a recurring process — Power Query, advanced Excel automation, macros, scripting, or similar.
- Hands-on use of AI tools, including any experience designing or configuring AI-assisted workflows or agents.