DL-Trade Settlement_GGN

Acuity Knowledge Partners; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Knowledge Partners is seeking a highly motivated professional to join the IORS division in Gurugram, India. This role focuses on settlement of bonds, equities and complex derivatives, including CDS, IRS, swaps and futures, for one of Acuity’s buy-side clients.

The candidate will monitor the trade lifecycle from matching to settlement, coordinate with custodians and brokers, investigate unmatched trades, and escalate issues with clear status updates.

Qualifications

• Experience with settlement of bonds, equities and derivatives.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the full trade matching, confirmation and settlement lifecycle for securities.
• Process and monitor derivative transactions (CDS, IRS, swaps, futures).
• Coordinate with counterparties, custodian banks, prime brokers and executing brokers for timely settlements.
• Investigate unmatched, mismatched, missing and failed trades across securities and derivatives.
• Escalate material settlement issues to the client with clear status updates and proposed resolutions.
• Review trade details, allocations, confirmations and settlement instructions for accuracy.
• Monitor cash breaks and perform root-cause analysis.
• Monitor sensitive transactions and settlement-funding requirements.

Skills

Trade settlements

Trade lifecycle monitoring

Derivatives knowledge

Bond & equity settlements

Stakeholder coordination

Job description

5 - 9 Years

Permanent

Job Description

We are seeking ahighly motivated and detail-oriented professional to join the IORS division.This role will support one of Acuity’s buy-side clients in managing securitiesand derivatives trade operations, with a primary focus on the settlement ofbonds, equities, CDS, IRS, swaps and futures

TradeOperations – Settlements Support

• Monitorthe full trade matching, confirmation and settlement lifecycle for securities,including bonds and equities, and derivatives.
• Processand monitor derivative transactions, including credit default swaps (CDS),interest rate swaps (IRS), cross-currency swaps, equity swaps, total returnswaps and futures.
• Coordinatewith counterparties, custodian banks, prime brokers and executing brokers toensure timely and accurate settlement.
• Investigateand resolve unmatched, mismatched, missing and failed trades across securitiesand derivatives.
• Escalatematerial, aged or time-sensitive settlement issues to the client with clearstatus updates and proposed resolutions.
• Reviewtrade details, allocations, confirmations, settlement instructions, resets,rolls and maturity events for accuracy and completeness.
• Monitorposition and cash breaks, perform root-cause analysis and track exceptionsthrough resolution.
• Monitorsensitive transactions, cross trades, clearing-broker transfers andsettlement-funding requirements.

Job Snapshot

Job ID

JOB_8550

Department

Investment Operations and Risk Services

Location