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About Ameriprise
You give more, you want more

You've worked hard and now you're looking for a career that's as rewarding as it is
challenging. Ameriprise Financial is a great place to find just that. With our corporate
headquarters in Minneapolis and offices nationwide, we're America's largest financial
planning company¹ yet we're also a supportive nationwide family of financial
professionals. We're proud to be ranked as one of the "Best Places to Launch a Career"
by BusinessWeek magazine.²

You provide the initiative; we provide the support to help you succeed. Thrive in our
diverse and inclusive environment with award-winning training,³ career development and
360° support guided by accessible leaders. If you're talented, driven, and ready to join a
team of professionals who work every day to help their clients plan for and achieve their
dreams, you're ready for a career at Ameriprise Financial.
Responsibilities
Analyst will assist a Co-Portfolio Manager in covering software/internet/services companies.
The investment ideas generated will be for both the technology hedge fund and mutual fund portfolios. The ideal candidate will have 1+ years experience (pre-MBA) in investment banking, private equity, management consulting or technology industry.
Qualifications
Education: BA/BS.
Preferred Experience: 1 - 3 years work experience

-Strong Analytical Skills
-Comprehensive understanding of financial statements
-Knowledge of various valuation methodologies
-Strong financial modeling proficiency
-Dedicated team player
-Intellectual curiosity about businesses, industries, and competitive strategies and an absolute passion for the investment management business

JCODE:23913
JCODE:23269
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About Ameriprise
You give more, you want more

You've worked hard and now you're looking for a career that's as rewarding as it is
challenging. Ameriprise Financial is a great place to find just that. With our corporate
headquarters in Minneapolis and offices nationwide, we're America's largest financial
planning company¹ yet we're also a supportive nationwide family of financial
professionals. We're proud to be ranked as one of the "Best Places to Launch a Career"
by BusinessWeek magazine.²

You provide the initiative; we provide the support to help you succeed. Thrive in our
diverse and inclusive environment with award-winning training,³ career development and
360° support guided by accessible leaders. If you're talented, driven, and ready to join a
team of professionals who work every day to help their clients plan for and achieve their
dreams, you're ready for a career at Ameriprise Financial.

Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer.

¹ Based on the number of financial plans annually disclosed in Form ADV, Part 1A, Item 5, available at adviserinfo.sec.gov as of Dec. 31, 2008, and the number of CFP® professionals documented by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.
² BusinessWeek magazine, September 4, 2008.
³ DALBAR Financial Intermediary Post-Sale Service Award 2007.
Responsibilities
Desire to work closely with a small hedge fund team with responsibilities ranging from administrative support to investment research/analysis.
Take ownership and responsibility for the smooth day-to-day operation of the office.
Identify, investigate, and implement practices that continuously improve the work flow and general conditions of the office environment.
Act as office liaison for all corporate/business functions including but not limited to HR, compliance, marketing, building management, IT, telecom, and video conferencing
Coordinate timely preparation of marketing materials including attribution reporting for all prospect and client meetings.
Complete and manage all soft dollar requests for the team
Work with portfolio managers and an analyst to better understand critical industry and fundamental stock drivers
Update industry screens, gather monthly industry data, perform other ad-hoc data requests
As proficiency for role is developed assist with additional research roles including but not limited to: attend third-party sponsored events to gather information and summarizing for team, listen to company earnings calls and write summaries, and create/maintain financial models for stocks
Work with various company financial statistics, discerning key items from financial reports and reporting in summary to investment professionals
Back-up other Research Assistants when needed.
Qualifications
1-3 years Investment Research experience
Attention to detail, with strong communication skills, both written and oral
Basic experience and proficiency with Microsoft Excel
Ability to efficiently and effectively manage calendars, correspondence, travel arrangements, expense reporting, supply management, and filing for small group of investment professionals
Ability to build relationships and effectively communicate with investment professionals, both internally and externally, as well as third party vendors and sell-side firms.
Ability to draw appropriate conclusions from industry and company trend information gained from a variety of sources and communicate succinctly to investment professionals

JCODE:23269
JCODE:23913
JCODE:173977
JCODE:173974
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About Ameriprise
You give more, you want more

You've worked hard and now you're looking for a career that's as rewarding as it is
challenging. Ameriprise Financial is a great place to find just that. With our corporate
headquarters in Minneapolis and offices nationwide, we're America's largest financial
planning company¹ yet we're also a supportive nationwide family of financial
professionals. We're proud to be ranked as one of the "Best Places to Launch a Career"
by BusinessWeek magazine.²

You provide the initiative; we provide the support to help you succeed. Thrive in our
diverse and inclusive environment with award-winning training,³ career development and
360° support guided by accessible leaders. If you're talented, driven, and ready to join a
team of professionals who work every day to help their clients plan for and achieve their
dreams, you're ready for a career at Ameriprise Financial.

Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer.

¹ Based on the number of financial plans annually disclosed in Form ADV, Part 1A, Item 5, available at adviserinfo.sec.gov as of Dec. 31, 2008, and the number of CFP® professionals documented by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.
² BusinessWeek magazine, September 4, 2008.
³ DALBAR Financial Intermediary Post-Sale Service Award 2007.
Responsibilities
Provide quality service to RiverSource Fund shareholders and their financial advisors. Primary duties include:
- Responding to telephone inquires
- Processing authorized transaction within quality standards
- Support the transfer agent department in other ways by assisting in maintaining account records within compliance standards
Qualifications
- 1-3 years of mutual fund telephone service experience
- Working understanding of mutual fund transfer agent policies and procedures
- Organized and detail oriented, the best candidate will bring a commitment to providing high quality service
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Flexibility and capability to incorporate change

Part Time 1 = Mon - Fri (10am - 3pm) EST
Part Time 2 = M - (11am - 4:30pm), Tues - Thurs (11am - 4pm) & Fri (11:30am - 4pm)
Part Time 3 = Mon - Fri (11am - 4pm)

JCODE:23269
JCODE:23913
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About Ameriprise
You give more, you want more

You've worked hard and now you're looking for a career that's as rewarding as it is
challenging. Ameriprise Financial is a great place to find just that. With our corporate
headquarters in Minneapolis and offices nationwide, we're America's largest financial
planning company¹ yet we're also a supportive nationwide family of financial
professionals. We're proud to be ranked as one of the "Best Places to Launch a Career"
by BusinessWeek magazine.²

You provide the initiative; we provide the support to help you succeed. Thrive in our
diverse and inclusive environment with award-winning training,³ career development and
360° support guided by accessible leaders. If you're talented, driven, and ready to join a
team of professionals who work every day to help their clients plan for and achieve their
dreams, you're ready for a career at Ameriprise Financial.

Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer.

¹ Based on the number of financial plans annually disclosed in Form ADV, Part 1A, Item 5, available at adviserinfo.sec.gov as of Dec. 31, 2008, and the number of CFP® professionals documented by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.
² BusinessWeek magazine, September 4, 2008.
³ DALBAR Financial Intermediary Post-Sale Service Award 2007.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be responsible for ownership of the timely and accurate processing of certain payments to financial intermediaries including commissions, 12b1, Plan Administration, Networking and others as necessary. In addition, you will be responsible for maintaining accurate dealer profile information in a moderately complex Access database used for payment and accrual processing ensuring compliance with contractual agreements. Additional responsibility will be supporting the Transfer Agent (TA) Control Accounting group, representing the TA in a variety of projects and initiatives. This position requires cross-organizational knowledge including TA, Investment Accounting and Treasury.



Principle Responsibilities
Ownership of accuracy and timely processing of certain payments as well as back for all others, including commissions, 12b1, plan admin and networking fees paid to financial intermediaries.
Accountable for maintaining accurate dealer profile information within TA2000 and Microsoft Access.
Subject matter expert on mutual fund payments to broker dealers understanding terms of the agreements and coordinating cross organizationally with Distributor Operations and the GCO for contractual interpretation.
Ownership of incoming broker dealer communication and support.
Responsible for activities related to operational change management as impacted by changing dealer agreements and business initiatives.
Responsible for the development and delivery of on-demand and scheduled queries and overall management of reporting information including information used in board reporting.
Perform fee analysis and controls including balancing to Investment Accounting.
Proactively analyze business processes identifying opportunities for process improvement.
Drive development of required test plans for projects impacting dealer payments, associates systems and downstream systems.
Liaison for internal partners including DMU, Investment Accounting, Service Delivery and TA Operations.
Development and maintain department procedures.
Monitoring the cumulative daily As Of gain(loss) materiality impacts to the RiverSource Mutual Funds and invoicing of billable losses to applicable broker/dealers.
Gather information for general ledger entries associated with as of losses.
Provide Subject Matter Expertise to business and technology resources through the project lifecycle including the development of requirements, User Acceptance Test plans, test conditions, testing functions, contributing to implementation planning and post-implementation tracking.
Supporting the TA Control Accounting group with monitoring, developing, updating and/or implementing applicable policies and procedures.
Qualifications
Subject matter expertise in the distribution of mutual funds, including understanding of various fees and commissions paid to financial intermediaries.
Strong Excel and Access skills.
Demonstrated problem solver with the ability to work cross organizationally
Strong communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to effectively influence peers and leadership.
Ability to execute multiple complex assignments within the established time frames and quality standards, while responding to immediate needs.
Detail orientated with the ability to methodically analyze and solve problems. Ability to recognize client sensitive situations and respond to or escalate issues as appropriate.
Ability to develop strong working relationships while demonstrating a high level of initiative.
Proactively identify solutions to business needs and recognize potential impacts to business processes.

Preferred qualifications
Knowledge of TA2000 and facilities associated with processing dealer payments is preferred but not required.
Financial accounting experience, including a working understanding of general ledger.
Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining Microsoft Access databases.

JCODE:23269
JCODE:23913
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About Ameriprise
You give more, you want more

You've worked hard and now you're looking for a career that's as rewarding as it is
challenging. Ameriprise Financial is a great place to find just that. With our corporate
headquarters in Minneapolis and offices nationwide, we're America's largest financial
planning company¹ yet we're also a supportive nationwide family of financial
professionals. We're proud to be ranked as one of the "Best Places to Launch a Career"
by BusinessWeek magazine.²

You provide the initiative; we provide the support to help you succeed. Thrive in our
diverse and inclusive environment with award-winning training,³ career development and
360° support guided by accessible leaders. If you're talented, driven, and ready to join a
team of professionals who work every day to help their clients plan for and achieve their
dreams, you're ready for a career at Ameriprise Financial.

Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer.

¹ Based on the number of financial plans annually disclosed in Form ADV, Part 1A, Item 5, available at adviserinfo.sec.gov as of Dec. 31, 2008, and the number of CFP® professionals documented by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.
² BusinessWeek magazine, September 4, 2008.
³ DALBAR Financial Intermediary Post-Sale Service Award 2007.
Responsibilities
Desire to work closely with a small hedge fund team with responsibilities ranging from administrative support to investment research/analysis.
Take ownership and responsibility for the smooth day-to-day operation of the office.
Identify, investigate, and implement practices that continuously improve the work flow and general conditions of the office environment.
Act as office liaison for all corporate/business functions including but not limited to HR, compliance, marketing, building management, IT, telecom, and video conferencing
Coordinate timely preparation of marketing materials including attribution reporting for all prospect and client meetings.
Complete and manage all soft dollar requests for the team
Work with portfolio managers and an analyst to better understand critical industry and fundamental stock drivers
Update industry screens, gather monthly industry data, perform other ad-hoc data requests
As proficiency for role is developed assist with additional research roles including but not limited to: attend third-party sponsored events to gather information and summarizing for team, listen to company earnings calls and write summaries, and create/maintain financial models for stocks
Work with various company financial statistics, discerning key items from financial reports and reporting in summary to investment professionals
Back-up other Research Assistants when needed.
Qualifications
1-3 years Investment Research experience
Attention to detail, with strong communication skills, both written and oral
Basic experience and proficiency with Microsoft Excel
Ability to efficiently and effectively manage calendars, correspondence, travel arrangements, expense reporting, supply management, and filing for small group of investment professionals
Ability to build relationships and effectively communicate with investment professionals, both internally and externally, as well as third party vendors and sell-side firms.
Ability to draw appropriate conclusions from industry and company trend information gained from a variety of sources and communicate succinctly to investment professionals

JCODE:23269
JCODE:23913
JCODE:173977
JCODE:173974
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