Duration: 12 Months + Extension
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
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- Support client Securities Settlement Operations within Capital Markets and Brokerage Services environments.
- Perform daily trade settlement activities, reconciliations, reporting, and operational support functions.
- Utilize advanced Excel capabilities to process, analyze, reconcile, and maintain large financial datasets.
- Handle CDS/DTC settlement activities, trade matching, trade affirmation, and exception management.
- Work closely with internal teams, external partners, and clients to ensure timely and accurate settlement processing.
- Contribute to operational excellence initiatives, process improvements, and risk mitigation activities.
- Exposure to Capital Markets, Prime Brokerage, Securities Lending, and leading securities platforms.
- Onsite 5 days per week during the first 90 days; thereafter eligible for 1 work-from-home day per week.
Responsibilities:
- Perform daily reconciliations, projections, reporting, and settlement processing activities within established SLAs.
- Investigate, reconcile, and resolve financial discrepancies, suspense items, and clearing outages.
- Provide fails reporting and settlement status updates to clients and management.
- Perform NI24-101 trade matching activities and CDS Arrow binds/netting procedures.
- Review DTC and CDS pending trade reports and communicate settlement issues to stakeholders.
- Match, affirm, and process DTC trade confirmations to facilitate successful settlements.
- Investigate and respond to client and partner inquiries in a timely manner.
- Support international trade settlement processes and monitor market settlement reports.
- Maintain process documentation and ensure procedures remain current and compliant.
- Monitor shared inboxes and maintain accurate operational records for audit purposes.
- Participate in cross-training initiatives and provide operational coverage during high-volume periods.
- Identify opportunities for process enhancements and operational efficiencies.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, AML policies, operational procedures, and risk controls.
Experience:
- 5+ years of experience within banking, capital markets, securities operations, or financial services.
- Strong trade settlements experience with CDS and DTC platforms.
- Prior reconciliation experience involving financial discrepancies, breaks, and exception management.
- Capital markets and trading operations knowledge.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, and Macros.
- Experience supporting securities settlement operations, middle-office, or back-office functions.
- Experience working with high-volume transaction processing environments.
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience managing multiple priorities while meeting tight deadlines.
- Knowledge of Money Market and FX products is considered an asset.
- Exposure to securities lending, prime brokerage, or global settlement operations is preferred.
Skillsets:
- Advanced Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Macros)
- Reconciliations and exception management
- CDS and DTC trade settlement processing
- NI24-101 trade matching
- Capital Markets operations
- Securities settlements
- Trading operations knowledge
- Financial reporting and analysis
- Data validation and processing
- Operational risk management
- Process improvement and documentation
- Solid verbal and written communication
- Attention to detail
- Team collaboration
- Time management and organizational skills
Education: University degree required.
About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit https://www.ustechsolutions.com.
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Recruiter Details:
Name: Shubham Deep Gautam
Email:
[email protected]
Internal ID: # 26-18687
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