Senior Analyst, Trade Operations
Senior Analyst, Trade Operations
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Job Description
Job Description:
The Expertise Were Looking For
- 3-5 years of financial services experience preferably with exposure to Custody Operations and/or Trade/Fixed Income Life Cycle management
- 2 years of experience in Trade Life Cycle Settlements or Fails. FX Experience an advantage
- Experience with OMGEO Alert CTM CLSOMS MISYS preferred.
The Purpose of Your Role
This position will be responsible for the day to day activities ensuring all trade confirmation and settlement processes reporting and inquiry responses are completed timely and accurately for the Fidelity Trading Desk FX and equity activities. This person will possess a full understanding of Fidelitys organizational structure information flow and internal systems as well as good industry knowledge pertaining to trading and settlement of equity fixed income and foreign currency (non USD) exchanges. They should be able to identify analyse and resolve complex issues or potential operational risk that may arise and effectively communicate with any party that may be involved.
The Skills You Bring
- Experience with industry practices and tools.
- Detailed knowledge of market settlement practices.
- Operational knowledge in FX and Fixed Income settlements
- Proficient skills in various software applications to include Excel Word Power point Outlook
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
- Working knowledge of agile methodologies
- Strong time management skills.
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong data analytical skills.
- Must be able to recognize high-risk items and escalate those items or seek assistance to minimize loss to either the shareholder and/or Fidelity.
- Must have the ability to develop solid action plans to resolve daily operational issues/problems.
The Value You Deliver
- Monitoring transactional confirmation fails resolution escrow activity and settlement.
- Communicate issues and take initiative to proactively resolve and prevent problems
- Perform market-specific processes to ensure confirmation and settlement in challenging foreign markets
- Communicate with internal Equity/Fixed Income / FX Trading Desks Broker Custodian Banks and other business partners to ensure operational challenges are managed efficiently.
- Participate as a Subject Matter Expert on projects
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment to successfully manage daily work volumes and quality standards
- Works with Manager and Senior Managers to identify process improvements.
- Ensure that all responsibilities/assignments are performed in a timely fashion.
- Deliver effective written and verbal communication to appropriate business partners
How Your Work Impacts the Organization
The Global Middle Office (GMO) acts as a servicing centre for FMR Co. and FIAM trading desks globally facilitating the confirmation and settlement of security and currency transactions with brokers and custodian banks and providing daily cash estimates to Trading. It is also responsible for coordinating corporate action executions ensuring the collection of income to the Funds resolving position differences and facilitating securities lending activities.
Trade Operations provides trade support to Fidelitys domestic and international equity fixed income high yield and foreign exchange trading desks located in Hong Kong London and Boston.. Trade analysts work closely with the traders broker-dealer community and the custodian bank network to facilitate trade matching and settlement in over 70 countries addition to the various external counterparts that the trade analysts deals with there are also several internal groups that assist in the groups daily responsibilities including Compliance Treasurers Office Counterparty Risk Legal Fund Accounting and other Custody groups.
Category:
Investment OperationsRequired Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
