Fixed Income & Equity operations, Associate

About The Role :Job Title:Fixed Income & Equity operations, Associate

Location:Bangalore, India

Role Description

Clearing and Settlement is responsible for managing the end-to-end clearing and settlement process.

This is to ensure smooth and timely market settlement of securities and cash transfers between the bank and its counterparty.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that youll enjoy

Best in class leave policy

Gender neutral parental leaves

100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)

Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education

Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members

Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents

Accident and Term life Insurance

Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

Reconcile transactions/invoices by comparing and correcting data.

Protect operations by keeping financial information confidential.

Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Conduct reviews and evaluation for Cost Reduction Opportunities

Produce accurate financial and Head Count forecasting reports within specified deadlines

Close collaboration with UK & US teams

Your skills and experience

The successful individual will have diverse experience of the financial sector in any of the following areas; Operations, risk/controls, quality assurance, compliance or audit and have experience managing deliverables & maintaining effective relationships with global senior management.

Substantial and relevant experience in a global banking environment.

Stock Lending, Collateral management or similar functions is preferred

Experience in trade capture, settlements, and reconciliations across different products preferred as candidate will be required to know the full trade life cycle process

Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Functional skills:

Assisting the team in decision making and taking complete ownership of the situation

Supervision on daily BAU which includes daily exposure management for equity trades for both underlying clients and counterparts. Booking cash collateral in and out from counterparties. Monitoring of same day equity trades ensuring settlement, releasing instructions for same day trades into the market, amending trades as per desk requests, processing of crest loans.

Supervision on the aged equity trades to ensure settlement, amending trades as per desk requests, performing reconciliations tasks, processing of crest returns.

Monitor all collateral bookings made by Fixed Income and Equity collateral through to settlement. Bond settlements only

Supervision on Agreement and settlement deals booked by the Fixed Income trading desk. Also manages the funding generated by these deals. Reconciles the reference linking between Broker system

Daily exposure management for equity trades for both underlying clients and counterparts. Booking collateral in and out from counterparties. Re-allocating between ASL clients

Collateral management vs all Triparty Non Cash deals. This includes monitoring the settlement of collateral where we have new deals booked on VD pending release.

Collateral management vs all Bi-Lat deals (Cash and NC) on a T+1 basis. Agreeing re-prices with counterparty and ensuring all ASL clients are fully covered.

Monitoring the team performing the Calculation eod funding and, making payments.

Manage staff on a daily basis, distribute work, assign responsibilities, ensure appropriate staff motivation levels and continuous learning.

Conduct regular operational performance reviews and participate in monthly self-assessments.

Effectively manage risk and foster an environment where team is fully aware of Operational Risk management.

Cross train available resources to ensure 100% backup within the areas under control

Escalate all issues properly, in time, to the appropriate level, to avoid any adverse impact on the business.

Essential

Overall at least 10+ years of experience in the financial / banking sector including 4-5 years proven experience in Securities / Settlement functions.

Profound knowledge and expertise on Agency Lending Operation & Business Management techniques

Proven experience as business manager or relevant role

Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities

Thorough understanding of diverse business processes and strategy development

Ability to learn and understand new technologies

Ability to employ sound decisions from previous job experience

Ability to negotiate

Ability to resolve issues creatively and in a timely manner

Excellent time management skills

Ability to develop and maintain solid working relationships.

Excellent knowledge of MS Office (Word/Excel/Powerpoint), databases (e.g. MS Access, Excel Macro) and information systems

Good understanding of research methods and data analysis techniques

Experience in Global Banking industry

Experience in people management preferable

Self-driven working style

Able to work under stress with high quality output

Best in class working style high quality consciousness.

Excellent team worker, able to work in virtual global teams and a matrix organization

Ability to work in fast paced environment, keep pace with technical innovation and maintain a broad understanding of the business offering

Open minded, able to share information, transfer knowledge and expertise to team members

How we'll support you

Training and development to help you excel in your career

Coaching and support from experts in your team

A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.

A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

Educated to bachelors degree level or equivalent qualification/work experience

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:



https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.