As a Trade Lifecycle Analyst in the Direct Custody and Clearing team, you will play a crucial role in managing the pre- and post-trading execution life cycle operations. You will oversee daily transactional operations, ensuring accurate processing, strict adherence to regulatory and internal guidelines, and effective risk management and work closely with the DCC team in Sydney to ensure the best outcomes for the business and clients.
Job responsibilities
- Process and manage daily transaction processing operations for direct custody accounts, ensuring timely and accurate settlement. Support the Manager with team deliverables and expected performance levels to achieve targeted objectives and ensure adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLA). Work closely and collaboratively with the DCC team in Sydney to ensure the best outcome for the business and for clients.
- Monitor process queues and coordinate with cross-functional teams including trading, settlement, and compliance to resolve discrepancies and issues.
- Develop and implement process improvements, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Ensure strict adherence to relevant regulatory requirements, internal policies, and control standards.
- Escalate any operational issues, mitigating risks and ensuring continuity of service.
- Prepare and provide regular operational and performance reports to senior management.
- Liaise with internal audit teams to support periodic reviews and implement recommended improvements.
- Ensure controls across the team ae actioned, risks assessed and escalation to senior management where needed.
- Identify and support the implementation of efficiencies into the operational teams by driving new products, operations improvements and system development within the group. Continuous improvement is essential.
- Ensure operational risks are identified and managed effectively, ensure systems and processes are in place to minimize and monitor and manage all aspects of operating risk and compliance in the custody operations and reconciliations functions
- Develop and institute a continuous improvement program to improve quality and operational efficiency.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in transaction processing, ideally within a custodial or direct custody environment.
- Solid understanding of financial instruments, custody operations, and settlement processes.
- Familiarity with regulatory standards and compliance frameworks relevant to direct custody operations.
- Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail.
- Display broad-based initiative in business problem resolution with demonstrated ability to 'think outside the square", undertake qualitative and quantitative analysis and manage time and priorities.
- Strives for operational excellence to emphasize achievement and continuous improvement.
- Encourages critical evaluation of current practices while identifying opportunities and mitigating risks.
- Takes ownership to meet goals, adapts to new processes, and ensures high-quality client service.
- Communicates effectively with multiple stakeholders and possesses strong technical and risk management skills in a dynamic regulatory environment.
Must meet minimum employment tenure requirement. Specific roles require longer tenure in current position to be eligible to apply. Unless established for specific positions by the line of business, the standard tenure requirement is 12 months.
Meets satisfactory performance standards as defined by the firm
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