Trade Life Cycle Manager II (Complex Assets) - Investment Middle Office Service (Corporate & Investment Banking)
Aumni
Job Description
Investment Middle Office Services provides post-trade activities acting in behalf of the client, allowing them to focus on their core value of creating and executing their investment strategies. Experience a regionally aligned operational footprint globally facilitating a “follow-the-sun” model.
As a Trade Life Cycle Manager you will manage the day-to-day operations of post-trade activities for clients including instruction capture, trade matching, confirmation, settlement, claims management, reconciliations. This dynamic role provides an in depth view of the end-to-end trade lifecycle on the IMOS strategic platform. You will be responsible for timely and accurate management of trades, performing analysis to increase efficiencies and straight through processing, and resolving exceptions within required service level agreements.
Responsibilities:
- Capture all trade instructions in booking systems, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of service delivery in downstream Investment Middle Office Service (IMOS) systems and escalate issues for urgent matters or assistance
- Facilitate the end-to-end post-trade execution functions, from matching to settlements and investigate trade related exceptions
- Perform balance and transactional reconciliation of client records against street (custody / transfer agency/ brokers) from providing root cause analysis to resolving exceptions
- Partner with various global teams (internal and external) to resolve exceptions and trade issues: Client facing teams to communicate and resolve client issues; Broker/custodians and other relevant parties to meet settlement and market cut-offs; Technology to report and solution system bugs/incidents
- Manage new business initiatives from clients to support the business expansion opportunities
- Support global and local projects on digital solutions, system enhancements, and market rule change
Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities:
- Knowledge of financial products such as Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Collateral, Derivatives, Money Market and Cash Products
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross functional teams
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to proactively identify risks and escalate issues
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to thrive in a changing work environment
Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities:
- Prior knowledge of the trade lifecycle, fund accounting and/or experience supporting trade business
- Background in derivatives and OTC instruments
- Self-starter who works in a fast paced, results driven environment with excellent multitasking and prioritization skills
- Good working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Experience in automation tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, UiPath, Xceptor, Instabase