Investments Settlement Specialist (part-time/full-time)

Are you eager for dynamic, fast and challenging job where you can develop and grow in world-class asset management environment? Are you passionate for financial products and investment? We are looking for highly motivated and result oriented colleague into one of our teams in Asset Management.

This is an opportunity for you to join our Settlements team whose purpose is to handle trades executed by our internal portfolio managers and ensure they are confirmed and settled accurately and on time. You will confirm the trades with counter-parties and brokers, monitoring until their successful settlement and resolving issues or discrepancies. We are handling around 400 transactions daily in different products and currencies. We have direct exposure to the market and get involved in different projects and initiatives following business strategy, regulatory requirements and changes.
The job itself along with the team's trainings framework and Swiss Re's knowledge-sharing culture offer excellent learning opportunities as you would have insights into the investment and transaction lifecycle end-to-end process.

The Asset Management (AM) function manages the assets that Swiss Re generates through its core insurance and reinsurance businesses. We do so using a robust asset-liability management process. In addition to matching assets and liabilities, the team optimizes risk-adjusted investment returns within defined risk limits. Our clients are the Business Units, Reinsurance, Corporate Solutions and Life Capital. Their portfolios are handled individually according to their needs and objectives. AM Business Services provides an efficient operating platform capable of supporting all financial market activities conducted by Swiss Re.

Key Responsibilities
• You will have full control and supervision of daily tasks and flows related to confirmation and settlement of fixed income and equity trades, including corporate actions
• You will manage resolution of complex queries from our partners
• You will communicate with internal and external partners to address queries
• You will be responsibility for implementation of new regulatory requirements and market changes
• You will actively participate in functional and cross-functional projects, suggesting improvements and simplification of tasks and processes
• You will provide input for development and improvement of internal control framework together with Operational Risk Management
• You will mentor colleagues through training and operations

Our working options offer you greater autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.
We are open to have this position filled as full-time/ 80% part-time or as two 50% part-time roles.

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*We are required by law to disclose basic wage component (minimum salary) for the advertised positions. We carefully consider your professional competencies, qualifications and experience in our compensation package and/or when offering you other positions. Our compensation philosophy is to pay fairly, also considering market situation and the value employees may bring to Swiss Re.

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