Trade Lifecycle Associate

Join our dynamic broker-facing team as a Trade Lifecycle Associate, where you'll play a crucial role in enhancing client experiences and improving custody settlement rates. Leverage your strategic thought leadership and deep understanding of the custody business to deliver best practices and informed decisions. If you're intellectually curious and passionate about driving solutions across organizational boundaries, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Job Summary

As a Trade Lifecycle Associate within our broker-facing team, you will enhance client experiences by pre-matching trades for custody clients. You will demonstrate strategic thought leadership and leverage your analytical acumen to make informed decisions that benefit our business. Your role will involve managing daily operations and ensuring high standards of quality assurance.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage daily BAU and operational risk of custody trades.
• Oversee processing, pre-matching, settlement, and trade functions.
• Handle exceptions and ensure closure.
• Create and monitor intra-day reports.
• Conduct research and investigations on systems.
• Understand product solutions for customer problems.
• Build strong team resiliency and backups.
• Address queries within SLAs and escalate issues.
• Perform EOD processes to meet deliverables.
• Maintain high standards for quality assurance.
• Ensure team is always audit-ready.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Possess minimum 6 years in the Financial Services industry.
• Demonstrate strong financial markets product knowledge.
• Exhibit subject matter expertise in Equities, Fixed Income, FX.
• Collaborate closely with business partners.
• Adapt to tight deadlines and prioritize work.
• Think strategically and execute practically.
• Communicate strategic messages clearly and consistently.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree (business discipline preferred).
• Experience with tools like Alteryx, Xceptor, Tableau, UiPath.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, etc.).