Middle Office Trade Settlements Associate

Atrium (EMEA); Manchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Atrium (EMEA) is seeking a Middle Office Trade Settlements Associate in Manchester to oversee quality control of processing, work allocation and workflow for the Middle Office team, with four days onsite.

You will review and approve work from junior staff, perform analyses on complex transactions, and act as SME in incident management, resolving complex inquiries and ensuring IBOR data accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Oversee quality control of processing, work allocation and workflow of the Middle Office team.
• Review and approve work conducted by junior levels per policies.
• Perform analysis on complex transactions and propose solutions.
• Serve as SME and research complex multi-faceted transactions and provide answers to escalated inquiries.
• Maintain trade static data, enrichment, and exception handling.
• Perform complex reconciliations analysis (cash, asset, trade matching, and market value).
• Participate in end-client statement workflow, ad hoc reporting and incident management.
• Identify, resolve and escalate issues affecting IBOR accuracy within the team.
• Provide guidance to less experienced staff and review work of juniors.
• Interact with clients to resolve multifaceted inquiries for complex transactions.

Job description

Middle Office Trade Settlements Associate

Contract Duration: 12 months

Location: Manchester (4 days onsite)

• Responsible for overseeing quality control of processing, work allocation and workflow of a Middle Office team.
• 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.