Job Description:

The Trading Specialist position on our Advisory Trading team will initiate day-to-day trading and operations tasks for all discretionary managed account products. This role will have excellent visibility working cross functionally with business partners to process client requests, answer trade related inquiries and conduct research of escalated items. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative team environment while helping you reach your career goals!

Key Responsibilities

• Perform daily trading of our Active Portfolio Mutual Fund and/or ETF portfolios traded on-team, as well as the highly complex Drift trading process for internally- traded Select Separate Models Only and ETF strategies, and auto-rebalance trading and validation for our SPS Advantage product. This includes trade origination, pre and post trade validation, and reject and exception processing.


• Provide support to business partners with trading and maintenance to models, processing client requests, and answering trade related questions/assisting with research of escalated items.


• Build and maintain support relationships with internal WMS and Capital Markets Trading business partners, as well as external money managers and vendors. Collaborative work with third party money managers regarding model trading and client requests.


• Continuous development of on-team systems, tools, and process knowledge.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.


• 1-3 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with order entry for the following security types: Stocks, ETFs, Bonds, Mutual Funds and Options.


• Experience with the following systems: APL, BETA, BondDesk, Brokerage Mainframe, SSRS/SharePoint, MS Access.


• Strong attention to detail, highly organized, and possesses a strong work ethic.


• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines while maintaining a high degree of accuracy.


• Strong communication skills.

About Our Company
We're a diversified financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management and administration as of 2022. Our team of 20,000 people in more than 20 countries, advise and manage assets and income of more than 2 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full time

Exempt/Non-Exempt

Non-Exempt

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Business Support & Operations

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