Custody Associate | St. Petersburg, FL
Raymond James Financial, Inc.
**Description**
**Onsite Work Environment:** **This position requires full-time onsite work. Must live within commutable distance from our home office.**
**Job Summary:**
Under general supervision, uses skills gained through training and experience to perform a variety of operational procedures including stock deposits, interpretation of legal documentation, depository reconciliation and trade reconciliation. Serves as the agent between branches and the home office.
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**
* Secures physical stock properly per regulatory guidelines.
* Completes due diligence reviews on all incoming securities to mitigate risk.
* Requests various legal documents from branch personnel.
* Answers questions regarding various Custody processes.
* Researches and provides resolution on complex business issues.
* Serves as a back-up in cross-functional responsibilities during absences.
* Maintains a variety of confidential data files and records.
* Prepares client correspondence, instructional letters and various documents.
* Monitors incoming electronic correspondence, mail and documents.
* Reconciles client accounts to reflect transactions.
* Assists management in identifying procedures and policies that are outdated or ineffective.
* Performs box count on a bi-weekly and quarterly basis to ensure proper possession or control of physical stock.
* Assists in special projects.
* Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
**Qualifications**
**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:**
**Knowledge of:**
* Microsoft Word, Access, Excel and Outlook to create/update documents, reports, spreadsheets and emails.
* Principles, practices, and procedures of general office concepts and those that govern finance and/or securities industry operations.
* Regulations for specific assigned functional area.
**Skill in:**
* Analyzing data to identify discrepancies and trends.
* Problem solving.
* Organizational and time management skills to prioritize workflow and ensure duties and projects are completed by deadlines
**Ability to:**
* Organize, manage, and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
* Use appropriate interpersonal styles and communicate effectively, both orally and writing, with internal associates and external contacts at all levels.
* Effectively gather all relevant information in order to analyze, research, and resolve business issues in order to make decisions.
**Educational/Previous Experience Requirements:**
* High School Diploma or equivalent and a minimum of two (2) years’ experience in the areas of financial services industry or customer service.
~or~
* Any equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training approved by Human Resources.
**Licenses/Certifications:**
* None.
**Job:** Operations
**Primary Location:** US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg
**Organization** Operations & Administration
**Schedule** Full-time
**Job Shift** Day Job
**Travel** No
**Req ID:** 2403596
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