Consultant - Treasury Analyst (Fractional/Contract Role)

Arootah is a rapidly growing advisory and coaching firm specializing in Alternative Investment & Family Office Advisory, Executive & Leadership Coaching, and Talent Acquisition & Development. Founded by Rich Bello, co-founder and COO of Blue Ridge Capital, Arootah leverages deep industry expertise to drive peak performance for executives, teams, and firms across the alternative investments landscape.     Join Arootah’s Network of Business Advisors serving Arootah’s clients on a project basis in the alternative investment industry, including hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Our mission is to deliver top-tier business advisory services tailored to the multifaceted needs of the alternative investments landscape. As part of the network, you will take on project-based assignments that let you apply your expertise directly to our client initiatives. These consulting roles provide the opportunity to work on varied and impactful projects across the alternative investments industry.     Our Services Include:  Advising alternative investment managers with front-to-back office services, including but not limited to operations, business development strategy, due diligence, human resources, and compliance   Providing fractional expert advisors in key operational areas for emerging and established investment firms  Offering executive, life, health, and career coaching for individuals  Delivering talent acquisition and leadership development solutions  Developing SaaS applications for enterprise and consumer use     Visit us at https://arootah.com/advisory/for more information.  What You'll Do

Design treasury operations frameworks, establishing processes for cash management, funding coordination, collateral optimization, and treasury workflow across operations, accounting, trading, and portfolio management functions. 

Develop reconciliation processes and controls, creating standardized procedures for daily and monthly reconciliations including position reconciliation, open repo, swap agreements, cash balances, and prime broker statements to ensure accurate books and records. 

Establish NAV oversight and support procedures, building frameworks for monitoring fund administrators' NAV creation processes, implementing control checks, and developing escalation protocols for pricing and valuation issues. 

Create collateral management monitoring systems, designing tools and processes for tracking collateral exposures, margin requirements, haircuts, and optimization opportunities across prime brokers and counterparties. 

Build counterparty management frameworks, developing systems for tracking counterparty metrics, financing rates, costs, credit limits, and relationship terms to support treasury decision-making and risk management. 

Develop treasury policies, SLAs, and metrics, establishing oversight standards for outsourced and insourced functions supporting treasury operations, including performance measurement and service level monitoring. 

Create exception management and resolution protocols, designing workflows for identifying, researching, and resolving books and records discrepancies with clear documentation and escalation procedures. 

Build treasury reporting and analytics tools, developing dashboards, presentations, and updates on treasury exposures, financing costs, collateral utilization, and operational metrics for various levels of management. 

Train treasury and operations teams, conducting education sessions on treasury best practices, reconciliation techniques, collateral management, and counterparty coordination. 

Support special projects including prime broker transitions, new financing arrangement implementations, treasury system evaluations, and operational process improvements requiring treasury expertise. 

Requirements and Skills

3+ years’ experience with Alternative Asset Manager/Hedge Fund Middle Office, Administrator, Institutional Investment Bank or Prime Broker required. Excellent time management and organizational skills required with the ability to prioritize and multitask effectively.

Basic understanding and working knowledge of the operational aspects of fixed income products, cash, OTC derivatives, and their related standard settlement mechanisms.

Must be proficient in Excel using pivot tables, vlookups, macros, and If/Then statements, Bloomberg data functions for live and historic market data.

Detailed understanding of how all P& L components are calculated across all security types.

Working knowledge of Aladdin, Charles River, Bloomberg AIM is a plus.  

Contractor

Hours are based on the needs of the assigned client (0-40 hours per week)