APAC Trade Services Analyst/Associate

ICAP Management Services Ltd, Philippine Branch; Taguig; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

ICAP Management Services Ltd, Philippine Branch is seeking an Analyst, Trade Services to service APAC clients in post-trade and settlement operations. You will liaise with the Front Office and internal teams to ensure accurate processing, onboarding, and timely reporting across markets.

You will adapt to varying trading hours including Japanese or Sydney times, handle onboarding, data maintenance, and CSA requests while driving process improvements and STP initiatives.

Qualifications

• Some experience working in post-trade and settlement.
• Familiarity with sell-side and/or buy-side trading floor environments and support functions.
• Experience with middle and/or back-office processing systems.
• Willingness to work on public holidays whenever needed (on shift/rotation basis).
• Willingness to work Japanese or Sydney trading hours occasionally.
• Knowledge of on-exchange cash equities trading and settlement.
• Knowledge of Settlement lifecycle of APAC markets.
• Strong verbal and written skills for communicating with internal/external clients.
• Quick learner, enthusiastic.

Responsibilities

• Perform Client onboarding process, and static data maintenance.
• Ensure timely and accurate processing of client trades and onward submission to the custodian providing operational support to all members.
• Perform pre-matching with both market and client counterparties.
• Managing monthly commission claim and reconciliation in different markets.
• Collect and allocate trades, internal processing of trades (issuance of confirmations and uploading trades to the clearing bank).
• Identify and resolve workflow issues and liaise with internal/external departments and clients to communicate resolution of outstanding issues, ensuring escalation to immediate manager.
• Daily/Monthly Trade, Tax and Regulatory reporting to Exchanges and Regulators.
• Create and update various statistics for members (trade allocations, pre-match rates/fail rates etc.).
• Initiate new procedures and solutions to improve productivity, system enhancements and increase STP.
• Take responsibility for your assigned department projects, (UAT, system enhancements etc.).
• Ensure all daily/weekly/monthly reconciliations are completed in a timely manner in order to produce reports to management.
• Managing CSA (Commission Sharing Agreement) requests with other internal departments and clients

Skills

Post-trade experience

Trading floor familiarity

Back-office processing

Shift work availability

Japanese/Sydney hours flexibility

APAC settlement knowledge

Strong communication

Quick learner

Education

Tools

DTCC CTM platform

Job description

ICAP Management Services Ltd, Philippine Branch is seeking an Analyst, Trade Services to service APAC clients in post-trade and settlement operations. You will liaise with the Front Office and internal teams to ensure accurate processing, onboarding, and timely reporting across markets.

You will adapt to varying trading hours including Japanese or Sydney times, handle onboarding, data maintenance, and CSA requests while driving process improvements and STP initiatives.