Job Summary
As a Stock Borrow & Lending Trade Support Associate in the Asia Stock Borrow & Lending Middle Office team, you will be a key player in providing operational support for Equities activity. You will work closely with our clients, as well as with our internal teams; Front Office, Product Development, Product Control, Client Service, Sales, Corporate Actions, and Technology. This role offers continual opportunities to be involved with a variety of initiatives across the organization and to contribute towards a rapidly evolving environment.
Job Responsibilities
- Handle Trade capture and booking
- Manage Collateral , daily mark to market and monitoring of financing basket exposures
- Manage maintenance of Account for new and existing clients
- Monitor avoidance of buy-ins and of fails management
- Ensure traders are compliant with rules and regulations in various local jurisdictions
- Involvement in process improvement, system implementation, new product or new market rollouts
- Act as First point of contact for Front Office Trading and Sales on SBL trade bookings / issue resolution
- Coordinate with global partners in middle office and client service to help drive process improvements, system changes and improve/maintain our client relationships
- Manage client queries, ensuring they are investigated and resolved in a timely fashion
- Manage trade life cycle; settlements, corporate actions, affirmations & regulatory reporting
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Associate or Equivalent
- 3 year minimum experience in the industry
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to develop strong working relationships with marketers, external clients, traders and other support teams
- Must be a self-starter with the motivation, demonstration of initiative, and ownership mentality to think outside of the box as necessary
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to take ownership and responsibility. Ability to drive and manage global initiatives and projects driven by the business, industry or operations
- Skillset to properly escalate issues to management, controls team and front office sales and trading teams.
- Team Player, but also must be able to work independently
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Working understanding of Equities, Bonds, and Swap products; and their relevant process flows is a necessity
- Must have strong PC skills with particular emphasis on Microsoft excel, formula construction, and excel reconciliation solutions