About Arootah

Arootah is a talent solutions firm purpose-built for the alternative investment industry. We advise and we execute, covering the full talent spectrum from entry to exit across five services: Talent Acquisition, Fractional Leadership, Talent Development, Retention & Compensation, and Transition.

Most talent firms solve one problem. Because we cover the full spectrum, we can help clients identify and solve the right one. We start with diagnosis, then deliver.

Our team has run alternative investment firms at the highest levels as COOs, CFOs, and CCOs. That operator experience, combined with 15+ years of alternatives-specific recruiting and a network of 700+ vetted advisors across 18 functional disciplines, is what makes the advice credible and the execution reliable. We also draw on a network of 600+ coaches, deploying those with specific experience guiding senior executives in the alternatives industry.

One industry. One talent partner. Entry to exit.

Learn more: https://arootah.com/

Who We’re Looking For

Arootah is seeking experienced Treasury Analysts and treasury operations professionals to join our advisor network and support clients across the alternative investment landscape.

As part of the network, you may be engaged with hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices to provide strategic, project-based support across cash management, collateral optimization, reconciliation, NAV oversight, and treasury reporting functions. You are detail-oriented, comfortable operating across operations, accounting, and trading teams, and able to bring structure and control to treasury workflows without full-time embedded authority.

Core Areas of Expertise

• 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.

What You Bring

• 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.