Securities Settlements Analyst 

Location: Salt Lake City, UT 
Pay Rate: $23/hour

Position Overview

Seeking a detail-oriented Securities Settlements Analyst to support settlement activities within Global Banking & Markets Operations. This role will manage securities transactions across the Americas, support the trade lifecycle, mitigate operational risk, and ensure accurate and timely settlement of client transactions.

The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and client service skills with an interest in financial markets and securities operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the settlement of securities transactions across multiple asset types.
• Monitor transactions and transfers from initiation through final settlement.
• Ensure trade and transaction details are accurately captured and processed.
• Partner with Trading, Middle Office, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and external counterparties.
• Research and resolve settlement discrepancies, exceptions, and transaction issues.
• Support electronic and physical asset transfers, client trades, distributions, and portfolio restructuring activities.
• Identify process and control gaps and recommend improvements to reduce operational risk.
• Develop a strong understanding of the end-to-end trade lifecycle.
• Maintain high standards of accuracy, execution, risk management, and client service.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, controls, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across multiple teams.
• Strong client/customer service orientation.
• Ability to identify risks and recommend practical process improvements.

Preferred

• Experience in Financial Services, Banking, Securities Operations, Trade Operations, or Settlements.
• Understanding of securities transactions and the trade lifecycle.
• Experience working with trading, middle-office, or operational risk teams.

Key Skills: Securities Settlements | Trade Lifecycle | Financial Operations | Risk & Controls | Transaction Processing | Reconciliation | Client Service | Process Improvement

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Job Title: Controls Analyst
Location: Salt Lake City, UT 84054
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Contract Length: 10+ Months

Job ref# 247602

Provide temporary onsite controls systems support to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant operation of refinery DCS, SIS, and PLC systems, with primary focus on Siemens S7 PLC platforms and the H2 unit.

Required Qualifications

• Experience with Siemens S7 PLC systems
• Experience supporting refinery or industrial DCS/SIS/PLC environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Allen-Bradley PLC systems
• Familiarity with process safety and Management of Change (MOC) processes

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support DCS systems, including system health, history modules, and database integrity
• Perform server patching, reboots, and system load management
• Support graphics, alarms, point configuration, and backups
• Support Siemens S7 PLC systems, including logic troubleshooting, updates, and basic configuration changes
• Support Allen-Bradley PLC systems
• Support SIS systems, including annual testing coordination, lifecycle support, and inventory management
• Participate in FAT activities and basic logic validation
• Support routine instrument maintenance and troubleshooting
• Troubleshoot and support third-party devices, including Woodward and Trisen
• Maintain and troubleshoot data transfer logic and non-control integrations
• Maintain control system network integrity
• Support IP address governance for DCS, SIS, and PLC systems
• Support servers and application nodes, including reboots
• Support thin clients and wireless I/O
• Generate and maintain alarm metrics and PARR reports
• Configure and support system alerts
• Execute work in alignment with MOC requirements, including alarm limit changes
• Support control system upgrades, obsolescence management, and reliability improvements
• Execute minor control system changes, including basic control implementations such as pumps and MOVs
• Perform functional testing and validation
• Provide on-call support as required
• Complete assigned system support, troubleshooting, and change activities
• Complete control system updates and issue resolution
• Perform routine reporting of alarm metrics and system status
• Document changes in accordance with established procedures
• Coordinate with personnel to prioritize and execute work
• Comply with applicable safety, environmental, and operational standards

Job Title: Transfer Settlement Analyst
Location: Salt Lake City, UT (On-Site Required)
Duration: 6 months
Pay Rate:  $23.00

The primary responsibility of the ACAT team is to provide effective transaction processing and exceptional client service that both guards the firm s capital and reputation and creates measureable value for the firm and its clients.  The new ACAT Analyst will be required to handle multiple functions including reconciliation of automated account transfer receives, delivers, residuals, mutual funds, foreign and domestic settlements.  The Analyst will be expected to manage relationships with PWM Sales teams, counterparties and vendors. They will need to meet required deadlines and comply with industry rules.  The Analyst will be expected to escalate any issues and minimize firm exposure to financial, reputational, and regulatory risk. The Analyst s day-to-day responsibilities include facilitating transfer requests which moves assets into and out of the firm. They will perform account verification and asset review to ensure transfers are compliant with firm and industry policies. They will also be assigned projects that require data analysis to depict trends and streamline processes.

Job Duties:

• Analyst will initiate transfer requests from client signed ACAT instruction to bring assets into the firm. This will require attention to detail with the understanding of industry and system requirements. 
• Perform reconciliation of incoming wires by reviewing the external instructions and notifying PWM Sales team to input matching instructions. 
• Facilitate account transfer delivery through a completing series of steps to notify internal teams, receive proper approvals, and account termination. 
• Project work that requires data analysis to identify opportunities to streamline workflows and reduce manual touchpoints 

Position Description

• Position-level reconciliation of all account requested form counter parties/clients
• Oversight of residual positions following ACAT transfers
• Pre-population of ACAT transfer forms
• Foreign and domestic settlements
• Find innovative ways to create efficiencies and increase controls
• Provide superior client service while mitigating risk

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years operations experience (familiarity with ACATS & settlement operations preferred, not required)
• Strong PC, MS Office and Web skills
• Bachelor s degree preferred

Characteristics:

• Strong analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills
• Strong team player skills
• Ability to work on multiple tasks, prioritize and thrive in a fast-paced deadline driven environment
• Self starter with strong sense of urgency and ability to make critical decisions under pressure
• Ability to solve problems in a timely and appropriate manner

Operations Analyst
Onsite Hybrid in Salt Lake City, UT
Pay: $23 per hour.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 1-1.5 years relevant experience
• Risk management focus
• Attention to detail with a sense of urgency is a must
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as web-based applications
• Bachelor s degree required
• Be highly collaborative, team-oriented and strong consensus builder
• Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral
• Preferred Qualifications
• Previous experience in Operations and/or Financial Services Industry
• Demonstrate ability to partner across product groups, regions and functional responsibilities
• Be a strategic thinker, possesses strong facilitation and data gathering skills
• Attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure and to provide practical solutions

Reporting  Analyst
Work Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Pay rate: $23/hr
Contract Duration: 6 months

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS
This role is responsible for data quality analysis and the creation of insightful weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports detailing performance metrics, diversification strategies, and portfolio composition using both quantitative and qualitative data. In addition, the individual may contribute to initiatives designed to enhance workflows, upgrade platforms, and implement new software solutions. 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, demonstrating self-motivation and a proactive approach to assuming increasing levels of responsibility.
• Superior communication and interpersonal abilities are critical for successful collaboration and relationship management.
• Proficiency in interpreting financial statements to validate the accuracy of client reporting materials.
• Exceptional attention to detail and proven experience in producing complex, customized client materials with a commitment to the highest standards of accuracy.
• Strong analytical skills to review materials against sanity checks and thresholds established by the reporting team.
• Collaborate with performance specialists including potential interaction with senior leadership.
• Exceptional organizational capabilities to effectively manage and review significant volumes of deliverables under tight deadlines.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and a demonstrated aptitude for quickly adapting to new software platforms and technologies

Job Title: Database Administration Support

Location: Salt Lake City, UT (onsite + willingness to work weekends)

Duration: 6 months + Possibility to Extend and/or Convert to FTE

Pay Rate: $51/hr (W2 Only)

Job/Role Description:

• This role provides Database Administration Support and production support for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Sybase IQ, UDB DB2, Sybase Replication, Postgres, Hadoop, MSSQL, MongoDB, and Oracle database infrastructure on a global scale.
• This position performs daily monitoring of database infrastructure and alerts while scheduling and managing maintenance jobs using Autosys.
• Continually evaluate the operations of the environment and assist in the optimization and delivery of server infrastructure.
• Perform root cause analysis on system failures and incidents and provide remediation solutions.
• Communicate and coordinate with application support and other IT support teams to deliver timely responses for critical requests.
• Responsible for provisioning activities and user requests; participate in Business Continuity plan tests across all regions related to database infrastructure.
• Adhere to company change management requirements and procedures; create and maintain policies and procedures for regular operational activities.
• Manage small project initiatives within the Database team across large portions of the enterprise, including datacenter migrations and end-of-life database software and hardware initiatives.
• This is an onsite role in Salt Lake City, UT that requires working weekends.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of experience in database administration or a related Database Administration role.
• Five years of experience supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5/6/7/8.
• Strong experience in database administration, maintenance, implementation, migration, and upgrades in complex system environments.
• Extensive experience with Sybase ASE, IQ, and Replication (v16.x, v15.x, v12.x) database administration on Linux platforms.
• Strong knowledge of UDB/DB2, including HADR, database design, development, and maintenance.
• Strong working knowledge of DBA tasks with solid troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• IT experience with a solid understanding of banking domains and processes.
• Knowledge of job schedulers such as bash, Autosys, cron jobs, and similar tools.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively with global teams.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Strong organizational skills and keen attention to detail.