Job Description
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. 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.
This Operations analyst will primarily support Jefferies Wealth Management's Corporate and Executive Services business.
The Corporate and Executive Services team manage the Executive's transition from illiquid to liquid. This includes pre to post transaction planning which incorporates any combination of the following, including but not limited to, the servicing of equity compensation plans, implementation and execution of 10b5-1 Plans and/or Purchase Plans, Restricted Stock Sales + Block Trades, Equity + Option Plan Consulting (Cash/Cashless Exercise), Concentrated Stock Position Management, Portfolio Volatility Management and Wealth Planning.
Wealth Management's Corporate and Executive Services team also partners with Jefferies Equity Capital Markets and Investment Banking to assist Issuers, priority relationships and sponsors with the facilitation of key institutional equity deal placements. We assist Issuers and their management teams with corporate buy backs and block trading. We facilitate and manage deal placements on behalf of retail participants for both Jefferies equity IPO and follow-on transactions.
This Operations analyst will also support Wealth Management’s Structured Products offering to Sales. Jefferies Wealth offers a complete suite of products within all asset classes, enhancing yield and improving risk return profile within client portfolios. Partnering with Jefferies Fixed Income, Wealth Management FAs have access to structured product origination through an open architecture. Wealth FAs are well equipped to customize and create solutions for clients with variations on underlying equities, interest rates, commodities, and currencies.
Primary areas of Responsibilities:
- Support FA teams through Wealth’s equity, international, and option liaison trading desk through our firm’s third-party OMS Fidessa and Pershing’s front-end tool, NetX360.
- Provide execution support to sales teams from pre to post market sessions.
- 10B5-1 plan operational tracking and support within Proprietary portal utilized by corporate & executive service team.
- Maintain, track, and file SEC 144 sales reports on behalf of executive clients via the SEC Edgar website.
- Create management presentations on overview of business, highlighting IPO and Secondary retail transactions, holistic overview of advisor businesses, and 10b5-1 restricted stockholder selling plans.
- Structured Products deal operations, concentration maintenance and manual file uploads to third party vendors.
- Respond timely to inbound Financial Advisor and Sales Assistant requests for middle office and trade support.
- Manage day to day trade bookings, average pricing, and trade rejects between Fidessa GCTAC and Pershing’s NetX360.
- Managing internal equity related trade breaks and firm account balances
- Maintenance of client eligibility certifications related to equity capital markets on behalf of all domestic sales teams centralized in NY home office.
- Support of block trading and rebalancing system on behalf of discretionary trading accounts as well as managed account operations/ trade uploads.
- Ability to analyze data within excel, create ad-hoc reports and present findings in presentation form.
Secondary areas of opportunity for growth within CES team
- Strategic planning with C-Suite executive clients monetizing their restricted stock via 10B5-1 plans including client conference calls.
- Manage Jefferies syndicate IPO and Secondary transactions for retail book, providing deal color to FAs, final allocations.
- Assist and maintain the FA corporate prospect tracking system across the private wealth management division.
Success Measures:
- Effectiveness of day-to-day operational management within Corporate & Executive Services.
- Effectiveness of non-recurring objectives, projects and analysis specified and/or assigned at least annually. Feedback from FA partners, peers, external counterparts.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field preferred
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize work.
- 3-5 years of related work experience in financial services
- Solid communication skills and “presence” to interact effectively with the middle office team.
- Experience with Pershing NetX360, Fidessa, IPREO Equity and Retail Bookbuild, Factset, or similar custodial and client management systems.
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $100,000 - $120,000.
The salary offered will take into consideration an individual’s experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies offers, for eligible employees, an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays and paid parental leave.
About Us
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. 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.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse workforce and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. This includes applicants from historically underrepresented groups, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, military veterans, and individuals with disabilities or who are neurodiverse.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
All e mployees must follow Jefferies’ COVID-19 protocol policy , which is subject to chan ge.
