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What You Can Expect At BBH:
If you join BBH you will find a collaborative environment that enables you to step outside your role to add value wherever you can. You will have direct access to clients, information and experts across all business areas around the world. BBH will provide you with opportunities to grow your expertise, take on new challenges, and reinvent yourself—without leaving the firm. We encourage a culture of inclusion that values each employee’s unique perspective. We provide a high-quality benefits program emphasizing good health, financial security, and peace of mind. Ultimately we want you to have rewarding work with the flexibility to enjoy personal and family experiences at every career stage. Our BBH Cares program offers volunteer opportunities to give back to your community and help transform the lives of others.
The Senior Currency Administration Implementation Specialist, takes the lead project management role for new business implementations, particularly focusing on Currency Administration clients (under direction of the Manager of the Currency Administration Implementations team). The Currency Administration (CA) Product provides hedging services to various investment fund structures and is a major source of order flow to BBH’s FX Desks. As a Senior Currency Administration Implementation Specialist, you will take a lead role for new Currency Administration business implementations, with a focus on client engagement and an efficient, transparent, low-risk onboarding process. You will also serve as a key coordinator of all involved parties during the implementation phase, requiring extensive collaboration across both internal and external stakeholders globally.
Responsibilities include:
Global CA Implementations
- Project management role for new CA business implementations.
- Serve as single point of contact with clients and internal/external data agents, including BBH CA’s panel of liquidity providers and prime brokers.
- Ensure efficient transition process between CA Sales, Product, Trading and Business teams.
- Coordinate closely with Onboarding, Legal, Compliance and Risk to ensure all required documentation is in place prior to Live Date.
2. Operations Management
- Develop expert knowledge of our CA product with a detailed understanding of all operational processes.
- Develop an intimate understanding of each CA mandate and hedge strategy.
- Oversee the implementation of CA parameters and static data into calculation and trading platforms.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and business contacts in Foreign Exchange, Relationship Management, Custody, Fund Accounting and Transfer Agency.
- Facilitate onboarding all new CA mandates to BBH’s various execution models (Principal vs Agency).
3. Business Analysis and Facilitation
- Determine how changing business needs affect associated systems, products, and processes.
- Contribute insightful, knowledgeable, effective solutions and potential efficiencies to day-to-day processes and procedures.
- Participate in requested ad-hoc project management activities, to facilitate the wider Markets department.
Qualifications:
Education level and/or relevant experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required.
- 5 to 7 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in the financial services industry, a plus.
Knowledge and skills (general and technical)
- Knowledge of BBH’s business, practices and systems, a plus.
- Knowledge of project management principles, practices, tools and techniques.
- Experience with standard desktop tools, including Microsoft Office.
- Extremely strong attention to detail.
- Strong consultative and advisory skills, with an ability to work and communicate professionally with internal and external clients.
- Capability to handle multiple and conflicting priorities, while meeting deadlines.
- Ability to interact with internal and external clients globally, in a professional manner.
- Strong problem solving, organizational and project management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
What We Do
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a privately-held financial institution that has been a thought leader and solutions provider for over 200 years. We serve the most sophisticated individuals and institutions with expertise in Private Banking, Investment Management and Investor Services. Our 5,000 employees operate from 17 locations throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
