Operations Officer (temp)

THE COMPANY:

Our client is multinational Corporate banking company, with branches worldwide.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for transaction flows for treasury products including; FX/MM, Derivative, IRS, Securities, CD’S & bond transactions from Trade Capture, Instruction Routing, Settlement Management and Custodian reconciliations.
• Responsible for booking, processing, settlement, confirmations and reconciliation tasks and project work for the Operations department, within Clearing, Loan Administration and Treasury activities.
• Confirmation matching, identifying differences and resolution by liaising with the business and external clients
• Investigating and resolution of issues, e.g. non receipt of funds
• Maintenance of static including SSI’s, security set up and rate fixes for both securities and derivative transactions.
• Ability to understand and generate the relevant MT1xx, MT2xx and MT3xx series Swift messages.
• Ability to complete and act as support and cover for the transaction reporting required under both MiFID II and EMIR
• To support the production of daily, weekly and monthly management information
• Ensure all applicable processes and procedures are adhered to and updated as and when required.
• The role holder would ideally also have exposure to custodial services in managing the client asset & money segregation duties and reconciliations along with any CASS reporting.
• Support management of Operations Department with any other ad-hoc tasks and support requirements.
• As required, establish good working protocols with the Head Office teams, as appropriate, to complete relevant tasks;
• Complete all training provided by Compliance, Risk and IT and other departments as necessary in a timely manner.
• Read and understand the Risk Management & Compliance framework (and the policies referenced therein) and the UK Staff Handbook;
• Identify, report and escalate material risk events, including conduct risk events and conflicts of interest, or losses to the Head of Department.
• Responsibility for the day-to-day identification, ownership and management of conduct risk and controls through the continuing development and implementation of the Bank’s conduct risk framework processes. This includes the internal control processes designed to identify, assess and manage conduct risk, the execution of activities as intended and the identification, reporting and escalation/remediation of inadequate processes and control breaks. On a proactive basis, liaise with and seek guidance from the Second Line of Defence for policy and process queries.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Must be able to work 5 days in the office
• 3 years’ experience in Treasury Operations role either in the UK or other global markets
• Confident communicator and comfortable in a client facing role
• Resourceful and the self-motivated to learn all aspects of the Bank’s Operations activities to support the business and other functions.
• Must be digitally savvy, competent on MS Office suite e.g., Excel, Powerpoint
• Enjoys working with the data driven information and confident with numbers and systems

For further information please contact Marcus Courtney