Sr.Associate_Trade Ops_ Settlements Support _UK Shift

Moodys Analytics; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Moodys Analytics in Gurugram is seeking a knowledgeable settlement operations professional to manage the lifecycle of trades across bonds, equities, and derivatives. You will verify, match, and settle trades while coordinating with counterparties and custodians to ensure accurate settlement.

Strong analytical skills are essential to resolve breaks and escalations. The role emphasizes diligent monitoring of settlements, accurate confirmations, and timely problem-solving to maintain smooth

Qualifications

• Experience with bonds, equities, and OTC derivatives (CDS, IRS, swaps, futures).
• Understanding of trade matching, confirmation, allocation, clearing, settlement & reconciliation.
• Strong analytical skills to investigate trade, position, and cash breaks.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the full trade matching, confirmation, and settlement lifecycle for securities, including bonds and equities, and derivatives.
• Process and monitor derivative transactions, including CDS, IRS, Cross-Currency Swaps, Equity Swaps, Total Return Swaps, and Futures.
• Coordinate with counterparties, custodian banks, prime brokers, and executing brokers to ensure timely and accurate settlement.
• Investigate and resolve unmatched, mismatched, missing, and failed trades across securities and derivatives.
• Escalate material, aged, or time-sensitive settlement issues to the client with clear status updates and proposed resolutions.
• Review trade details, allocations, confirmations, settlement instructions, resets, rolls, and maturity events for accuracy and completeness.
• Monitor position and cash breaks, perform root-cause analysis, and track exceptions through resolution.
• Monitor sensitive transactions, cross trades, clearing-broker transfers, and settlement-funding requirements.

Skills

Trade settlement

Securities & derivatives

Root-cause analysis

Job description

This role will support one of Acuity’s buy-side clients in managing securities and derivatives trade operations, with a primary focus on the settlement of bonds, equities, CDS, IRS, swaps, and futures.

• Monitor the full trade matching, confirmation, and settlement lifecycle for securities, including bonds and equities, and derivatives.
• Process and monitor derivative transactions, including Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Interest Rate Swaps (IRS), Cross-Currency Swaps, Equity Swaps, Total Return Swaps, and Futures.
• Coordinate with counterparties, custodian banks, prime brokers, and executing brokers to ensure timely and accurate settlement.
• Investigate and resolve unmatched, mismatched, missing, and failed trades across securities and derivatives.
• Escalate material, aged, or time-sensitive settlement issues to the client with clear status updates and proposed resolutions.
• Review trade details, allocations, confirmations, settlement instructions, resets, rolls, and maturity events for accuracy and completeness.
• Monitor position and cash breaks, perform root-cause analysis, and track exceptions through resolution.
• Monitor sensitive transactions, cross trades, clearing-broker transfers, and settlement-funding requirements.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of bonds, equities, and listed and OTC derivatives, 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.