February 5, 2012  
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Kaufman Bros., L.P. is actively seeking energetic and motivated individuals to join its Institutional Equity Sales, Institutional Equity Sales Trading, Institutional Equity Research and Investment Banking teams.

As a fast-growing, full service investment bank, Kaufman Bros., L.P. combines the expertise and versatility of larger banks with the excitement and opportunity in our entrepreneurial environment.

For consideration for an exciting career opportunity at Kaufman Bros., L.P. please email Human Resources a copy of your resume and a cover letter to hr@kbro.com.

 
Career Opportunities

Capital Markets Associate - Operations and Compliance
Institutional Equity Sales
Institutional Equity Sales Trader
Institutional Fixed Income Sales
Investment Banking
Senior Research Analyst
 

Institutional Equity Sales

Primary duties and responsibilities:

  • Develop a clientele of qualified institutional clients to invest in our investment recommendations and products.
  • Maintain and support client relationships in order to increase sales from existing clients.
  • Work with the Institutional Sales Manager to plan and implement all sales strategies related to Institutional Equity Sales and activities driven to achieve goals through account acquisition and equity building.
  • Develop comprehensive sales plans and strategies to align sales activities with the overall company vision/mission.
  • Support our conferences and other marketing events with a dedicated calling program.
     


Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications:  

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Must have exemplary record of sales performance in the securities industry.
  • 3+ years experience in financial services industry
  • Team Player
  • Series 7, 63

Institutional Equity Sales Trader

Primary duties and responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain relationships for enhanced business growth.
  • Respond effectively to client inquiries pertaining to trading and market views.


Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications:  

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • 3+ years of experience as Sales Trader.
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
  • Series 7, 55, 63

Institutional Fixed Income Sales

Primary duties and responsibilities:

  • Maintain and monetize your existing institutional investor relationships that you bring to the platform.
  • You must have the ability to source and develop new institutional relationships.
  • You should have a successful track record selling one or more of the following fixed income products:
    • Corporate
    • Agency
    • Treasury
    • Municipal
    • MBS/ABS
    • High Yield


Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications:  

  • Existing book of institutional investors that purchase/sell one or more of the following products:
    • Corporate
    • Agency
    • Treasury
    • Municipal
    • MBS/ABS
    • High Yield
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Proven track record of sales production for 2+ years above $300k per year.
  • Series 7, 63/66

Investment Banking

Primary duties and responsibilities:

  • Relationships with clients and sourcing potential clients.
  • Lead all aspects of execution of investment banking transactions.
  • Maintain a pipeline of banking transactions.
  • Preparation of presentations to clients and prospective clients.
  • Perform and supervise preparation of valuation analyses of clients and targets.
  • Perform due diligence investigations.


Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications:  

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Experience in financial services industry.
  • Highly motivated, energetic, personable and capable of managing multiple tasks.
  • Series 7, 63
  • Team Player

Senior Research Analyst

Primary duties and responsibilities:

  • Develop a universe of coverage consistent with company goals;
  • Initiating coverage on those names.
  • Develop in-depth financial models.
  • Meet with company management and keeping abreast of industry trends.
  • Develop an investment thesis and ratings on the industry and the companies under coverage and write research and industry notes as required.
  • Develop a list of portfolio managers and buy side analysts for research dissemination; and maintaining sources of information within the industry for channels checks.


Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications:  

  • MBA and/or a CFA
  • Series 7, 63, 86 and 87 plus at least 5 years experience in equity research.
  • Experience with subject sectors and a keen understanding of their operational, strategic and technology issues are required.
  • Experience with a variety of business models and strong analytical abilities are required.
  • Team Player

Capital Markets Associate - Operations and Compliance

Primary duties and responsibilities:

  • Operations-Related Job Responsibilities:
    • Process all trades (equity and fixed income capital market trades).
    • Review and reconcile trading activity with clearing broker, clients and proprietary/sales-traders.
    • Review daily blotter and retain documentation of compliance review of daily blotter.
    • Reconcile clearing statement(s) monthly.
    • Open and update client accounts; process client requests with clearing broker.
    • Maintain client files in accordance with regulatory requirements.
    • Process monthly commission payout to Sales/Sales-Traders (currently Xtiva system).
    • Issue, process and collect upon outstanding soft dollar payment invoices.
  • Regulatory Compliance-Related Job Responsibilities:
    • Document periodic review, update and posting to the firm’s intranet the following
      • Written Supervisory Procedures (WSP)
      • Employee on boarding materials
    • Document and review the following daily (and any additional regulatory compliance activities)
      • OATS reporting
      • ACT reporting
      • Trade reporting – SEOMS (Bloomberg)
      • Best execution rules
      • TRACE rules
      • Internal & external communications, including mail, email, IM’s & other forms as appropriate
    • Document and review the following bi-monthly
      • AML and CIP compliance
      • FINCEN updates
    • Document and review the following monthly/quarterly
      • Employee brokerage accounts (compliance with securities trading policies and procedures)
      • SEC Rule 605 and 606 reports
    • Document and review the following annually
      • Annual compliance meetings, compliance certification and continuing education
      • Branch reviews
      • Business Continuity Plan
    • Document the following upon request or periodically
      • Review www.KBRO.com web site for compliance with FINRA advertising regulations
      • Research disclosures
      • Process FINRA Web-CRD disclosures (Forms U4, U5, exam requests, etc.)
      • Watch and restricted lists

 

 

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