Senior Associate, Derivatives Operations | Remote First Set-Up | Night Shift

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, escalation 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.

Derivatives Operations Process:

• Reconcile all investment products handled by DerivOps in Three-way Positions Reconciliation.

• Liaise with the relevant counterparties (Brokers and Custodians) for all unmatched trades from the Traiana Harmony system for Synthetic Futures and FX products.

• Coordinate with the relevant counterparties (Brokers and Custodians) for all unmatched trades from the CLS tool for FX products.

• Create wires for OTC derivative instruments, Settlements for Commodities, Mortgage-Backed Securities, and Synthetics, and Index Swaps.

• Assist in answering FX-related inquiries sent to the FX MO distribution email.

• Assist in Monitoring and resolving all ageing Derivops wire breaks.

• Assist in Mailbox clean-up and monitoring.

Qualifications:

• Experienced Associates (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 (9 PM - 6 AM 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.