Investment Operations Lead - Middle Office - Hybrid

Cigna Investment Management (CIM) manages over $35 billion in assets on behalf of Cigna, a publicly traded global health services company.

CIM's assets are invested in public bonds, private placement securities, commercial mortgages, real estate equity, mezzanine debt, private equity, equity securities, warrants, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, municipal securities, mutual fund shares, United States government securities, options contracts on securities, futures contracts on intangibles, money market funds, derivatives, structured notes, exchange traded funds and hedge funds.

The Investment Operations Lead, supporting the middle office business infrastructure within CIM Operations, will report to the Investment Operations Director.

The position is responsible for the development and maintenance of robust and efficient business infrastructure and data flows as well as support for various investment operations functions.

The successful candidate will develop and implement improvements to CIM business infrastructure and processes that address the needs of the broader CIM organization.

The position liaises with business partners across CIM and Cigna including Portfolio Management, Trading, Operations, Accounting, Treasury, Compliance, Cigna/CIM IT, and various external vendors in order to develop and support the implementation of an overall business, middle office, and data management infrastructure.

The candidate for this position will support and lead data and business initiatives, have strong technical abilities as related to asset management, recommend and lead process improvements, meet expected service levels, and have the ability to partner with senior business associates in order to execute CIM strategic initiatives.

The position within the CIM Data Management Team will be responsible for assisting the team in delivering a full range of project related deliverables associated with CIM's infrastructure project, including accounting system implementations and the build out of a new data store.

Major Duties


* Become deeply familiar with existing investment business infrastructure, data flows, processes, business needs and practices, and utilize knowledge to design and execute related improvements.


* Develop and strengthen a middle office role that addresses, where necessary, proper transaction processing, analytics, derivative and compliance reporting, risk and return scenarios, and attribution/performance measurement.


* Collaborate with investment business data governance colleagues to establish optimal processes and appropriate controls to catalog, manage, and govern data


* Contribute to new data architecture design for creation of a data warehouse and patterns for data access by internal and external applications


* Utilize an Agile development environment to execute and promote the successful completion of selected technology projects, including close collaboration with Agile Product Owner.


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