Our client, a highly regarded boutique Asset Manager is looking to add an experienced Analyst to their Investment Operation team. The main purpose of the role is to support the firm across all investment operations processes including trade settlement, corporate actions, regulatory reporting (MIFIR, EMIR, SFTR & Post Trade) and static data Maintenance.

Role & Responsibilities

• All trade matching related tasks, including trade matching, settlement, managing trade exceptions and fail trades, counterparties’ standard settlement instructions (SSI) maintenance.
• Performing operations tasks related to derivatives (exchange-traded and OTC) trading, including instructions, margins and reconciliations.
• Processing of elective and mandatory corporate actions both internally and with custodians.
• Maintain custodian static data including SSIs.
• Perform daily reconciliations with counterparties including custodians and clearers.
• Investigation and clearance of breaks and follow-up all the way through resolution.
• Static Data maintenance within key systems including SimCorp Dimension.
• Perform post-trade tasks including regulatory reporting related to MIFIR, EMIR, SFTR.
• Undertake relevant training and collaborate closely with the wider team to ensure cross-training, knowledge sharing and smooth operations.
• Contribute to project aiming to enhance the department and wider firm processes, including for example to leverage technology and build a data-centric infrastructure

Background & Experience

• Minimum 4 years of demonstrated investment operations experience including all aspects of trade matching, settlement and reconciliations.
• Experience supporting operations for equities and fixed income products.
• Experience with derivatives is not required but would be beneficial.
• Experience processing corporate actions.
• Understanding of market infrastructure (brokers, custodians), interacting with market players and stakeholders, maintaining relationships with them.
• Regulatory reporting experience (e.g. MIFIR, EMIR, SFTR obligations).
• Experience maintaining and validating investment data in various systems.
• Experience with trade matching systems such Omgeo CTM & ALERT.
• Experience with swift payments and messages (including generation).
• Regulatory reporting systems such as UnaVista, DTCC or Trax.
• Experience using order management systems such as Dimension, Charles River, Aladdin would be a distinct advantage.
• Experience of reconciliations systems such as Corona.

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