Senior Associate, Trade Management

Operations is responsible for supporting the various trading, investment, and reporting activities of the firm. The core mission of the Operations group is to establish scalable investment workflows, ensure a controlled operating environment and deliver high-quality client service to both internal and external business relationships. In addition to supporting primary investment related activities, the groups assist in design and implementation of firm-wide projects, operational due diligence, counterparty management and client-related activities.

Trading Operations oversees the full breadth of firm wide trade settlements by leveraging scalable, straight through processes to ensure a seamless transition of a trade through its complete lifecycle from trade matching and reconciliation to allocation and delivery and finally, funding and settlement.

General Responsibilities:

• Properly communicate with onshore counterparts, custodians, brokers, and administrators to query, escalate and resolve issues pertaining to the processes and deliverables assigned.
• Expected to expand their skills and knowledge through cross-training and may be assigned to support and handle daily tasks from other teams within Middle Office space.
• Identify opportunities for process efficiencies through streamlining and automation projects by collaborating with other team members.
• All members should be aware and able to perform the standard procedure of a proper handoff, both offshore and onshore.
• Ensure timely update and completeness of process documentation.
• Able to take on additional responsibilities as the group expands.
• Any related process as required by both onshore and offshore teams.

Equities Operations Process:

• Ensure that all failed trades are addressed through proper monitoring.
• Investigate and resolve daily trade settlement issues, breaks and mismatch for Equities and Swaps.
• Manage and respond to all email inquiries related to pre-matching, failing trades, trade discrepancies (Pre and Post settlements).
• Monitor REPOs, IRS, CDS and ICE trades for any issues and breaks.

Qualifications:

• Experienced Associates ( with at least 3 years of experience ) with knowledge/exposure Capital Markets, Reconciliation and General Fund Accounting Principles. Alternatively, basic instrument knowledge in security types (Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives) and the Trade Life Cycle/Settlement process.
• Basic to Intermediate knowledge in Excel and SQL, or VBA is a plus.
• Possess good communication and client service skills.
• Can work with minimal supervision and deliver high-quality output.
• With multi-tasking skills and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Must be proactive, motivated, detail-oriented, a team player and knows how to work with Service Level Agreements (SLA) and metrics.
• Must be willing to work on Graveyard shift (10 PM or 11 PM Philippine Time)
• Comfortable working in rapidly changing, team-based work environment

Education:

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree in Financial Management and other related business courses.