Trade Lifecycle Manager 1

Join our team and be at the heart of investment operations, where your leadership will drive excellence in post-trade activities. Unlock your potential in a dynamic environment that values innovation and collaboration. Shape the future of investment services with us, and enjoy opportunities for career growth and development.

As a Manager in the Investment Middle Office Service (IMOS), you will serve as the Middle Office for our clients, handling a diverse range of products such as Listed Securities, Cash, ETDs, OTCs, Repos, Bank Loans, and CFDs. You will oversee all stages of the product lifecycle, from broker matching and managing the client’s custodial network to handling lifecycle events, including corporate actions, ensuring timely trade and cash settlements, managing claims and overdrafts, and contributing to client and regulatory reporting as well as the production of our Investment Book of Record (IBOR) delivery. You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of post-trade activities for clients, including instruction capture, trade matching, confirmation, settlement, claims management, and reconciliations. This dynamic role offers a comprehensive view of the end-to-end trade lifecycle on the IMOS strategic platform. The team is tasked with ensuring the timely and accurate management of trades, performing analyses to enhance efficiencies and straight-through processing, and resolving exceptions within the required service level agreements.

Job responsibilities:

• Facilitate the end-to-end post-trade execution functions, from matching to settlements and investigate trade related exceptions
• Capture all trade instructions in booking systems, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of service delivery in downstream IMOS systems and escalate issues for urgent matters or assistance
• Perform balance and transactional reconciliation of client records against street (custody / transfer agency/ brokers) from providing root cause analysis to resolving exceptions
• Partner with various global teams (internal and external) to resolve exceptions and trade issues: Client facing teams to communicate and resolve client issues; Broker/custodians and other relevant parties to meet settlement and market cut-offs; Technology to report and solution system bugs/incidents
• Manage new business initiatives from clients to support the business expansion opportunities
• Lead and support global and local projects on digital solutions, system enhancements, and market rule changes

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Knowledge of financial products such as Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Collateral, Derivatives, Money Market, Cash Products
• Demonstrated leadership abilities and team oriented individual with strong people management skills
• Ability to work collaboratively and develop strong partnerships with cross functional teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to proactively identify risks and escalate issues, undertaking the investigation required with the goal of resolving issues
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with the initiative to drive change and enhance controls
• Ability to thrive in a changing work environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Prior knowledge of the trade lifecycle, fund accounting and/or experience supporting trade business
• Self-starter who works in a fast paced, results driven environment with excellent multitasking and prioritization skills
• Good working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Experience in automation tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, UiPath, Xceptor, Instabase

Shift: Mid-Day - commencing at 03:00 PM Manila Time, with flexibility to accommodate business requirements.

All application requirements (including updated resume - please include specifics of your career) should be posted, submitted and completed in the Oracle tool.