Client Services Analyst

Title : Client Service Analyst

Duration : 12-18 month contract-to-hire

Location : Chicago, IL

Schedule : Hybrid, 3 days onsite/week

Pay Rate : 48.63/hr

Required Skills & Experience :

• 2+ years of professional experience, ideally coming from financial services
• Experience client facing - good communicators
• Must be able to handle high-level conversations
• Reporting
• Futures and/or Options understanding
• Must be a go-getter, show initiative

Nice to Have Skills & Experience :

• GMI or Rolfe & Nolan experience - adjusting and corrections of books and record

Job Description :

As a Client Relationship Manager/Client Service Representative (CSR) you will be the main point of contact for client's customers dealing in Futures & Options and OTC clearing. The primary functions of this role are to provide client support with trade/position management, relationship management, and field market/product inquiries across the derivatives space. This role will be supporting top tier institutional clients, which will require outstanding customer service to enhance the overall relationship.

Responsibilities :

• Subject matter expert for client queries regarding trades, positions, lifecycle events, commission, reporting, product offering
• Navigate the organization (central point of contact for client) by doing research and/or internal outreach to get responses to client queries and escalations
• Escalation point for clients as well as internal teams that are looking to drive resolution on critical initiatives
• Coordinate outreach and understand clients’ intentions around last trade date, esp. on physically settled contracts, and options expiries
• Coordinate client requests for additional access to the Mercury portal
• Establish frequent dialogue with the Marketing team keeping them abreast of client concerns or product asks and tracking this via internal databases
• Establish regular meetings with priority clients to drive discussions around metric trends, outstanding issues (OILs), and strategic industry focus areas.
• Meetings should encompass a holistic view of the operational side of the relationship (Product, Collateral, Brokerage, Clearing, etc.)
• Meetings should have set agendas, accompanied by presentations where applicable, and should be followed up with call reports
• Work with Client Service Relationship Managers to establish prioritization on priority client OILs, keep OILs updated in sharepoint, and ensure regular focus on moving solutions forward
• Work with clients to move them toward self-service opportunities on the portal, reduce client accommodations, and use etask/tableau metrics to look at opportunities for reducing manual processes
• Maintain client profiles, procedures and up to date contact information