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What is the Opportunity?
Senior Operations Associate working in the Securities Support team in the Operations department.
Involved in day-to-day tasks around matching trades and maintaining/improving STP rates as well as longer term projects to increase efficiency additional tasks including opening new markets.
What will you do?
- Matching of all Fixed Income, Equity and Repo trades
- Engage in daily checks to ensure business critical controls are being adhered to.
- Implement improvement processes and controls to support the business.
- Managing the operational risk and management reporting for the team
- Be involved in active cash management.
- Working closely with Fund Custodians, Prime Brokers, Clearers and Administrators to ensure all trade capture and reporting requirements are adhered to
- Working closely with external vendors to understand key trade flow requirements, Bank Ledger postings and cash payment deadlines
- Helping to maintain the relationships between Operations and external middle/back office providers
- Working closely with front office personnel to ensure quick and accurate trade processing, making amendments & enhancements to this process where appropriate
- Liaising with external and internal parties to open new market accounts
- Liaising with external and internal parties to facilitate new broker trading relationships
- Setting up new funds internally, liaising with internal teams as well as custodians where appropriate
- Taking full ownership demonstrating full awareness of any system upgrades and enhancements, and any potential regulatory breaches
- Actively resolving any position issues raised by the desk or Finance and investigating as necessary to identify the root cause
- Contributing towards weekly updates for senior management
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Fixed Income knowledge
- Demonstrable numeracy skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills and a strong capacity and desire to use initiative
- Pro-active approach to personal development and proven experience of investing your time in learning new skills and gaining new experiences
- Ability to demonstrate commercial thinking alongside a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude to all aspects of work
- Gets involved and proactively seeks out opportunities to advance the business
- Perseveres in the face of setbacks and remains calm and professional under pressure
- Ability to establish and maintain good relationships to work effectively and cooperatively with others. Communicate constructively, engage others positively and share information and ideas readily
- Seek out insightful, smart ideas to raise personal and team standards
- Demonstrate the ability to think creatively to find solutions
- Ability to respond quickly and positively to change and maintains effectiveness when experiencing change
- Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
Nice-to-have
- Experience with matching of trades
- Experience with DTCC CTM, ALERT and Bloomberg
What is in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best - progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits and competitive compensation
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Opportunities to work with the best in the field
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- A world-class training program in financial services
- Flexible and hybrid working options fully supported
Job Skills
Active Learning, Adaptability, Business Appraisals, Communication, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Decision Making, Effectiveness Measurement, Operational Delivery, Proactive Approach, Process Improvements, Solution Finding, TeamworkAdditional Job Details
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