Senior Associate/Lead, Equities Operations | Night Shift | Remote-First Set-Up

Infinit-O; Pasay; Remote; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Infinit-O in Pasay, Metro Manila, is seeking an experienced Trading Operations professional to support diverse trading, investment, and reporting activities within a scalable investment operations framework. You will coordinate with onshore counterparts, custodians, brokers, and administrators to resolve issues, monitor settlements for equities and swaps, and drive process improvements.

Candidates need at least 3 years in Capital Markets, Excel and SQL skills, and a willingness to work graveyard

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in Capital Markets, reconciliation, or fund accounting.
• Basic to intermediate knowledge in Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives; trade lifecycle.
• Proficiency in Excel and SQL; VBA a plus.
• Strong communication and client service skills.
• Able to work with SLA and metrics.
• Willing to work Graveyard shift (10 PM or 11 PM PH time).

Responsibilities

• Communicate with onshore counterparts, custodians, brokers, and admins to resolve issues.
• Support daily tasks across Middle Office and other teams as needed.
• Identify process efficiencies through streamlining and automation projects.
• Ensure proper handoffs offshore and onshore are performed.
• Maintain timely updates and completeness of process documentation.
• Take on additional responsibilities as the group expands.
• Address failed trades and resolve settlement issues for equities and swaps.
• Monitor REPOs, IRS, CDS, and ICE trades for issues or breaks.
• Respond to email inquiries related to pre-matching and discrepancies.

Skills

Communication skills

Client service

Multi-tasking

Attention to detail

Proactive

Team player

SLA adherence

Education

Bachelor's/College Degree in Financial Management or related business

Tools

Excel

SQL

VBA

Job description

Operationsis responsible for supporting the various trading, investment, and reporting activities of the firm. The core mission of the Operations group is to establish scalable investment workflows, ensure a controlled operating environment and deliver high-quality client service to both internal and external business relationships. In addition to supporting primary investment related activities, the groups assist in design andimplementation of firm-wide projects, operational due diligence, counterparty management and client-related activities.

Trading Operations oversees the full breadth of firm wide trade settlements by leveraging scalable, straight through processes to ensure a seamless transition of a trade through its complete lifecycle from trade matching and reconciliation to allocation and delivery and finally, funding and settlement.

General Responsibilities:

• Properly communicate with onshore counterparts, custodians, brokers, and administrators to query, elevate and resolve issues pertaining to the processes and deliverables assigned.

• Expected to expand their skills and knowledge through cross-training and may be assigned to support and handle daily tasks from other teams within Middle Office space.

• Identify opportunities for process efficiencies through streamlining and automation projects by collaborating with other team members.

• All members should be aware and able to perform the standard procedure of a proper handoff, both offshore and onshore.

• Ensure timely update and completeness of process documentation.

• Able to take on additional responsibilities as the group expands.

• Any related process as required by both onshore and offshore teams.

Equities Operations Process:

• Ensure that all failed trades are addressed through proper monitoring.

• Investigate and resolve daily trade settlement issues, breaks and mismatch for Equities and Swaps.

• Manage and respond to all email inquiries related to pre-matching, failing trades, trade discrepancies (Pre and Post settlements).

• Monitor REPOs, IRS, CDS and ICE trades for any issues and breaks.

Qualifications:

• Professionals (with at least 3 years of experience) with knowledge/exposure Capital Markets, Reconciliation and General Fund Accounting Principles. Alternatively, basic instrument knowledge in security types (Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives) and the Trade Life Cycle/Settlement process.

• Basic to Intermediate knowledge in Excel and SQL, or VBA is a plus.

• Possess good communication and client service skills.

• Can work with minimal supervision and deliver high quality output.

• With multi-tasking skills and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.

• Must be proactive, motivated, detail-oriented, a team player and knows how to work with Service Level Agreements (SLA) and metrics.

• Must be willing to work on Graveyard shift (10 PM or 11 PM Philippine Time)

• Comfortable working in rapidly changing, team-based work environment
  

Education:

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree in Financial Management and other related business courses.