Senior Associate LCH Clearing Operations

Senior Associate LCH Clearing Operations (Sydney/APAC)

LSEG Taguig, National Capital Region, Philippines

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Role Description:
We are currently seeking a motivated and driven individual to join LCH Operations in the role of Senior Associate, Clearing Operations, located in Manila. Manila is a new location LCH launched in 2024 to support our growing business, in addition to the existing locations of London, New York, Sydney and Singapore. All our offices work closely together as one team. The Clearing Operations team has specific responsibility for undertaking daily operational processes aligned to our EquityClear, ForexClear, RepoClear and SwapClear businesses. The team is also responsible for undertaking processes relating to the daily management of collateral (cash and non-cash) to reduce counterparty credit risk, and supports the processing of front office investment activities, which is predominantly reverse repos. The team works across three zones to support the firm’s members and clients clearing needs.
The candidate will be part of a team of Clearing Operations specialists who will perform sophisticated but routine day-to-day activities rotating across the different asset classes, providing the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of our products, internal systems, and processes. Candidates should have experience working for either an investment bank in a collateral or cash management role, a clearing house or custodian. Some knowledge of OTC derivatives (interest rate swaps) (FX products) processes is beneficial, along with familiarity with currency cut offs and the payment messaging infrastructure (SWIFT). Prior experience participating in migrations is also desirable.
Key responsibilities of the role will include, but are not limited to:
Rates Operations

• Investigates and promptly resolves trade registration exceptions.
• Perform and lead all aspects of key daily operational processes related to ForexClear trade flow, including trade capture, matching, position management, and margining.
• Market Data and CLS monitoring as well as checking sensitivities ensuring data integrity of system feeds and its valuations.
• Monitor and reconcile transaction activity between internal systems and external platforms.
• Act as a point of contact for internal customers and external clients (clearing members, custodians, and service providers) regarding queries, exceptions, and issue resolution.
• Raise incidents and potential risks in line with the firm's risk management framework, ensuring thorough documentation and timely follow-up.
• Performs operational processes relating to event management, margin runs, backloading cycles and start of day batch.
• Completes post trade lifecycle events, such as Give Ups, Portfolio Transfers and Compression services.
• Liaises with business partners to ensure member / client / trade source and exchange queries are resolved promptly.
• Proactively monitors the performance of the environments and works with IT to facilitate issue resolution.
• Participates in relevant ad-hoc testing and quality gate exercises ahead of technology releases.
  

Collateral Operations

• Undertakes margin call management across 19 different currencies.
• Monitoring and sweeping of cash across internal accounts for funding and investment.
• Monitors and handles the instruction and settlement of bilateral and triparty securities trades.
• Performs daily reconciliations, break resolution and break reporting across all cash and securities accounts.
• Processing of Corporate Actions relating to Front Office investment activity and member collateral.
• Reconciles and pays collateral and related fees.
• Supports all clearing services, members, and suppliers with queries and requests.
  

Other Responsibilities

• Understand default management processes for clearing services and participate in annual fire drill exercises.
• Work closely with operational teams in other locations to build knowledge and complete daily activities.
• Run own workload independently, whilst raising any issues or incidents with line management.
• Ensure internal procedures are followed, correct, reviewed regularly, and kept up to date.
• Production of daily, weekly and ad-hoc MIS for internal and external interested parties.
• Participate in Internal Audit reviews within the department as required.
• Identify self-development areas on an ongoing basis and put in place action plans with line manager.
  

Essential experience and skills required:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience in Finance, BS Math, Accountancy, Economics or any related field
• Exposure of working in an operations role within a financial services or FMI environment.
• Knowledge of collateral / OTC derivatives and / or central clearing processes.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Detail orientated with excellent numerical / analytical skills.
• Ability to understand technical complexity of clearing processes.
• Risk and control mentality.
• Strong ability to learn and develop product knowledge.
• Ability to multitask and prioritise.
  

IT Skills:

• MS Office Suite with advanced Excel skills desirable.
• Swift Alliance Message Management beneficial.
  

Advantageous to know CREST, Clearstream, EuroClear, BONY and Calypso.
LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership , Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
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If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice. Seniority level

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• Employment type Full-time

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