TL-Asset Mgmt Capital Markets

Cognizant; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,600,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in Hyderabad is seeking a seasoned asset reconciliation professional to lead daily reconciliation activities in capital markets, ensuring accurate trade and cash matching across systems and counterparties. You will drive process improvements, coordinate with front/middle/back offices, and support robust controls to reduce risk.

The role requires deep experience in trade and cash reconciliations, strong analytical skills, and rigorous documentation.

Qualifications

• Six to ten years of asset management and capital markets operations experience.
• Hands-on use of trade reconciliation tools and rule/configuration knowledge.
• Strong cash reconciliation expertise and ledger understanding.
• Solid grasp of reconciliation principles, controls, and audits.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily asset management reconciliation activities across systems and counterparties.
• Oversee end-to-end trade reconciliations and investigate breaks with root-cause analysis.
• Execute cash reconciliations for complex products with clear documentation.
• Improve reconciliation workflows by analyzing break patterns and data usage.
• Collaborate with operations, risk, and finance to validate transactions and settlements.
• Support control frameworks to minimize operational risk and financial exposure.
• Track aging of exceptions and ensure timely closures within thresholds.
• Contribute to platform enhancements with feedback and testing.
• Maintain dashboards and trend analyses for management visibility.
• Share best practices in reconciliation methodologies with teammates.
• Coordinate in hybrid work setups across onsite and remote days.
• Align daily work with the aim of reliable capital markets services.

Skills

Asset management

Capital markets ops

Trade reconciliation tools

Cash reconciliation

Regulatory controls

Analytical skills

Tools

Enterprise reconciliation platforms

Job description

Job Summary

This hybrid role focuses on driving efficient asset management operations for capital markets through expert use of reconciliation platforms in a banking environment. The talent will apply deep experience in trade and cash reconciliations to strengthen control frameworks reduce operational risk and support timely resolution of breaks. The role contributes directly to accurate financial reporting and trusted capital markets services.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily asset management reconciliation activities in capital markets operations to ensure accurate matching of trade and cash records across multiple systems and counterparties.
• Oversee end to end trade reconciliations using enterprise reconciliation tools to identify breaks investigate root causes and coordinate timely resolution with upstream and downstream teams.
• Provide hands on execution of cash reconciliations for complex capital markets products while maintaining clear documentation of adjustments exceptions and outstanding items.
• Drive continuous improvement of reconciliation workflows by analyzing recurring break patterns and proposing pragmatic changes to processes controls and reference data usage.
• Collaborate with trading operations risk and finance partners to validate transaction details confirm settlements and ensure alignment between front office middle office and back office records.
• Support robust control frameworks in the banking domain by applying reconciliation expertise to minimize operational risk reduce financial exposure from unsettled items and improve overall data integrity.
• Coordinate resolution of exception items in trade and cash reconciliations by tracking aging prioritizing high risk breaks and ensuring closure within agreed timelines and control thresholds.
• Contribute to design and testing of enhancements in reconciliation platforms by providing detailed functional feedback and validating new configurations against real world capital markets scenarios.
• Maintain accurate metrics and reporting on reconciliation performance by preparing dashboards exception summaries and trend analyses that help management monitor risk and operational effectiveness.
• Guide colleagues on best practices in reconciliation methodology by sharing practical knowledge of banking domain processes lifecycle events and common failure points in trade and cash processing.
• Support corporate action and pricing related activities by ensuring that position and cash records used for these processes are well reconciled and reflect true economic exposure for portfolios and books.
• Collaborate in hybrid work arrangements by using digital tools to coordinate tasks document findings and maintain continuity of reconciliation activities across onsite and remote working days.
• Align daily reconciliation activities with the company mission of delivering reliable capital markets services that protect client assets enhance market stability and support broader economic growth.

Qualifications

• Apply extensive experience of six to ten years in asset management and capital markets operations to handle complex reconciliation scenarios with minimal supervision.
• Use advanced practical knowledge of trade reconciliation tools including enterprise platforms in the banking domain to configure rules match logic and exception workflows effectively.
• Demonstrate strong expertise in cash reconciliations for banking and capital markets products with ability to interpret statements postings and ledger movements accurately.
• Employ sound understanding of reconciliation principles in the banking domain including control requirements audit expectations and regulatory considerations for financial records.
• Utilize working knowledge of corporate action processing to understand how events such as dividends and splits affect positions cash flows and reconciliation logic.
• Apply familiarity with trade processing and pricing concepts to validate transaction economics market values and fees when investigating exceptions in reconciliations.
• Exhibit strong analytical and communication skills that enable clear documentation of findings persuasive explanation of issues and effective coordination with operations and technology partners.

Certifications Required

Certified Securities Operations Professional or equivalent capital markets operations certification preferred reconciliation or financial operations certification beneficial.