Senior Payments/Settlements Expert

Opportunity:


This is an opportunity for you to join our Investment Transactions Management team whose purpose is to confirm and settle all trades performed by our internal portfolio managers on a global market and payments related to trading activities. In your role, you will have exposure to our diverse investment portfolio consisting of rates and credit products, securities lending, repos/reverse repo, derivative payments, collateral payments, real estate investments, acquisitions and many more. You will confirm the trades and cash flows with counter-parties and brokers, supervise until their successful settlement and resolve issues or discrepancies.

You would also hold responsibility for supporting Insurance Linked Securities issuances, Asset Transfers, Private Investments & Acquisitions and similar transactions, as well as cooperate with team in creating and maintaining accurate controls to preserve low risk environment. In addition, adhering to all relevant regulatory requirements such as MiFID, EMIR, CSDR, SFTR, etc. across multiple jurisdictions is essential.

Also, this position places a significant emphasis on ad-hoc global projects of both business and IT nature. Team continually strives for more standardization & innovation, utilizing automation & digitalization initiatives to improve efficiency and minimize financial, reputation and regulatory risk.

Key responsibilities:

- Fully control and supervise payment/settlement confirmations with external parties and support post-settlement reconciliation
- Monitor and avoid money laundering or fraud activities
- Request and confirm standard settlement instruction setup across relevant system landscape
- Analyse correspondence across all forms of communication
- Perform root cause analysis of any operational break/inefficiency; diagnosis the error and propose solution.
- Full comprehension of end to end workflow; including but not limited to trade confirmation, settlement, payment & life cycle maintenance.
- Contextual understanding of system landscape and corresponding ledger entries in any/all non-Investment Book Of Records (IBOR) systems/applications.
- Provide technical support and analysis for all current IBOR systems and auxiliary applications
- Provide backup for other key business unit tasks.
- Implement change within the team while adhering to current control framework along with creating new controls when necessary to support our constantly evolving business
- Point of contact with Group Internal Audit, External Audit, Risk, Product Control, Compliance & Compliance Assurance functions
- Impact change across the AM Landscape; promote, direct and foster innovation and change from both a macro & micro level.
- Communicate across multiple business divisions, regions, & management levels.

This job offer is suitable for people who have been impacted by the invasion of Ukraine.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We look forward to receiving your application.

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