Job Description

About the Role- Team Member will be part of the Securities Shared Services Operations, which is responsible for a wide variety of activities that supports analyzing and maintaining client reference data as part of the Client On-Boarding process.Team member will be working on critical data remediation, root-cause analysis and processing of activities that enables the Onboarding team to achieve operational excellence. By ensuring accuracy and timeliness of data, we facilitate the business in achieving knowledge of products, markets and market related setups. You will also drive initiatives and provide solutions that will have an impact on client experience and risk mitigation.
This role will also co-ordinate with the front office directly. The role will be the central point of contact within the various Fixed Income products and lines of business we support such as Corporates, High Yield, Mortgages, Agencies, ABS, CMBS, CMO, Money Market, and Repo.

Responsibilities -
Understand and implement client's requirement by liaising with internal and external counterparties to ensure seamless transition and onboarding.
Coordinate and manage tasks across a multi-disciplined team to ensure all operational information relating to an account event is received and systems are set up prior to account trading activity
Providing effective thought leadership in navigating evolving industry trends, client needs, business growth, financial regulatory landscape and helping to develop solutions to build appropriate architecture
Oversee BAU and identify process enhancement opportunities
Request management and delegation to downstream partners
Support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture
Working with onshore Client Data teams to effectively manage and process client data requests
Develop strong working relationships with Trader Management, Sales, Trading Desks, other onboarding teams
Ensure and Adhere to the Regulatory Reporting standards, policies and procedures
Become a risk manager by ensuring data integrity and challenging where required
Engage in opportunities to review processes, analyze information, make decisions and recommendations and implement and monitor procedures
Independently research and analyze regulatory reporting requirements and other financial documents
Provide reporting to senior leadership and produce insightful analyses of the business upon request for management
Preferred Skills-
Strong Knowledge of the banking regulatory reporting rules and regulations including FINRA, QFC and Dodd Frank regulations
Understanding of client lifecycle activities, such as corporate actions including merger events
Ability to independently research and analyze regulatory reporting requirements and other financial documents
Extensive knowledge and understanding of loan, securities and derivative products
Advanced knowledge of trade processing life-cycle
Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft applications including Excel, Access Database and Tableau
Excellent teamwork skills
Strong Analytic ability, with high attention to detail, accuracy and strong problem solving skills
Ability to communicate (written/verbal) effectively at all organizational levels
Excellent Interpersonal skills ability to build relationships
Ability to plan and organize workload within tight deadlines, meeting day-to-day objectives as well as longer term strategic goals
Perform analysis of, and make recommendations on functionality/efficiency of established controls and processes to ensure appropriate risk based operational procedures are in place and are meeting regulatory requirements/expectations

Essential Qualifications-
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a business-related field is strongly preferred
Previous experience in Operations and/or Financial Services industry - Relevant work experience of 7 years in one or a combination of the following: middle office, collateral, documentation, project management, business operations, strategic planning in financial services, regulatory oversight, AML/KYC, US tax regime & compliance and SSI setup and client onboarding
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
Knowledge and understanding of Excel, PowerPoint, Word and adaptability to other software products
Ability to research, compile, and perform complex analysis on critical operational data
Be highly collaborative and team-oriented
Demonstrate strong analytical and interpersonal skills
Ability to work with impacted areas to understand complex problems
Ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment
Strong multi-tasking abilities in a high performance, high demand environment
Ability to think strategically, drive consensus and influence decision making
Education: Any Graduate
Industry: Financial Services/Stockbroking, Banking

Skills Required