Sr.Associate_Trade Ops_ Settlements Support _UK Shift

Moodys Analytics; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Moodys Analytics in Bengaluru, India seeks a focused professional to support buy-side securities and derivatives settlement operations. The role emphasizes managing settlements for bonds, equities, CDS, IRS, swaps and futures, with vigilant monitoring of trade matching and lifecycle processes.

You will coordinate with counterparties and custodians to ensure timely and accurate settlement, while investigating and resolving unmatched or failed trades and providing clear issue resolutions to

Qualifications

• Knowledge of trade matching, confirmation, allocation, clearing, settlement and reconciliation.
• Understanding of settlement workflows for bonds, equities and derivatives.
• Ability to investigate and resolve unmatched or failed trades.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the full trade matching, confirmation and settlement lifecycle for securities and derivatives.
• Coordinate with counterparties, custodian banks and brokers to ensure timely settlement.
• Investigate and resolve unmatched, mismatched, missing and failed trades.
• Escalate material settlement issues with clear status updates and resolutions.
• Review trade details, allocations and settlement instructions for accuracy.

Skills

Trade settlement lifecycle

Derivatives knowledge

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Job description

• This role willsupport one of Acuitys buy-side clients in managing securities and derivativestrade operations, with a primary focus on the settlement of bonds, equities,CDS, IRS, swaps and futures.
• 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.
• Knowledge of bonds, equities and listed and OTCderivatives, including CDS, IRS, swaps and futures.
• Understanding of trade matching, confirmation,allocation, clearing, settlement and reconciliation.
• Strong analytical skills to investigate trade,position and cash breaks.