Middle Office Analyst / Middle Office SME

Atrium (EMEA); Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Atrium is seeking a Middle Office Corporate Actions professional for a contract role in Manchester with hybrid working. The position covers quality control of processing, workflow management, and supervising junior staff within a Middle Office team and outsourced partners.

A strong emphasis on accuracy and complex transaction analysis is required. The role involves data maintenance, trade enrichment, reconciliations, incident management, and client interaction on multifaceted inquiries, with a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee quality control of processing, workflow, and allocation for a Middle Office team and outsourced functions in accordance with SLD policies.
• Review and approve work conducted by junior levels in line with function policies and procedures.

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance

Job description

Contract Role – Middle Office Corporate Actions – Manchester/Hybrid – 12 months initial – Inside IR35

Role Overview:

• Job Title: Middle Office Corporate Actions
• Location: Manchester/Hybrid (4 days onsite per week)
• Contract Type: Contract
• Duration: 12 months initial
• Rate: PAYE (inclusive of holiday): £212 per day Inside IR35
• Responsible for overseeing quality control of processing, work allocation and workflow of a Middle Office team and outsourced functions in accordance with SLD.
• Reviews and approves work conducted by more junior levels in accordance with function policies and procedures.
• Performs analysis and research on the most complex transactions and identifies solutions to complex inquiries.
• Serves as subject matter expert and conducts research to gather information on the most complex, multi-faceted transactions and provides answers to complex inquiries that have been escalated by lower levels.
• Responsible for or facilitating the maintenance of trade static data, trade enrichment, and trade exception handling and market claims.
• Responsible for the most complex reconciliations analysis (cash, asset, trade matching, and market value), break assignment, resolution of reconciliation breaks, and trade fails.
• May also participate in monthly end-client statement workflow, ad hoc reporting, and incident management.
• Identifies resolves and escalates any issues that affect the accuracy of the Investment Book of Record (IBOR) within the team.
• Provides guidance to less experienced team members.
• Is able to act as a SME within incident management.
• Exercises own judgement and collaborates with multiple internal and external stakeholders to resolve reconciliations of accounts for complex or atypical transactions.
• May review/approve work of junior team members.
• Regularly interacts with clients in answering questions and resolving multifaceted inquiries for complex transactions.
• Provides guidance to less experienced Middle Office staff as needed.
• Contributes to the achievement of teams objectives.
• Bachelors degree in finance or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.