Senior Analyst - Cash settlement

The ideal candidate must possess strong communication skills, with an ability to listen and comprehend information and share it with all the key stakeholders, highlighting opportunities for improvement and concerns, if any. He/she must be able to work collaboratively with teams to execute tasks within defined timeframes while maintaining high-quality standards and superior service levels. The ability to take proactive actions and willingness to take up responsibility beyond the assigned work area is a plus.

Senior Analyst Roles & responsibilities:

• Responsible for all components of the daily Pre-matching, Value Date, fails management & settlement and ensuring accurate and timely processing, through adherence of internal control policies and procedures, trade capture processes, including trade blotter reconciliations and resolution of exceptions.
• Maintains proper daily workflow documentation evidence for regulatory and compliance purposes. Satisfies documentation processes to ensure files are easily found, understood and are well maintained.
• Daily comparison of open trade fails and ensuring items are tracked and actioned.
• Daily interaction with external clients, Brokers, Sales desk, trading desk etc on trade discrepancies.
• Match trades with broker dealer counterparts.
• Monitor Euroclear/DTCC/Crest/SGX/Clear stream to ensure matching of all settlement items.
• Work with settlements team to monitor and resolve fails.
• Cover BAU functions within Middle Office and Settlements team if necessary

Functional & Technical Skills:

• Graduation (B.Com., BBA, BBM, BCA) / Post Graduation (M.Com., MBA, PGDM)
• 2 to 4 years of experience in Cash Settlements and OTC derivative.
• Should have basic knowledge of finance, trade life cycle, investment banking, and derivatives.