Equity Client Operations - Operations Analyst

A leading Financial services firm is hiring an Equity Client Operations Analyst to join a project based in central London.

Your Team, Equities Client Operations within their Global Banking & Markets division, supports the full trade life cycle management of cash equities, prime brokerage and synthetics.

As well as day to day trade management, you will also focus on increasing straight-through processing (STP) and reducing settlement fails to drive scale.

• Role: Equity Client Operations Analyst
• Daterate: £250 per day (inside IR35)
• Payframework: Umbrella Company
• Startdate: ASAP
• Contractlength: 3 months
• Location: Central London - onsite Full time, Monday to Friday, 08:30 - 18:30 hrs

Key Responsibilities:

Products and Markets/Risk Management:

• Understand the products across different global markets
• Liaise with Sales to ensure timely/accurate booking of new trades and amendments to existing bookings
• Ensure correct timely allocation for executed trades
• Identify and reconcile trade booking errors
• Pre-matching and management of fails and settlement issues
• Focus on critical market allocations, pre-matching through to settlements

Relationship management:

• Establish strong working relationships with the Business and other teams such as Engineering, Operations teams
• Build a strong partnership with our clients in order to improve the pre-matching/allocation process and client service
• Provide assistance to other business units on trade related queries and act as an intermediary and liaise with Sales where necessary.

Leadership skills:

• Identify process inefficiencies and actively contribute to process re-engineering to improve trade flow
• Drive change by implementing new initiatives/projects

Essential Skills:

• Previous experience in a Middle Office role
• Product knowledge - ideally of cash (confirmations and/or settlements) and/or equities derives products
• Preferred knowledge of global markets, CTM, DTCC, Traiana, prime brokerage, synthetics
• Excellent client service skills with experience gained within a fast paced Client Service/ - Operational role
• Ability to work in dynamic environment, proven history of being able to react to changing priorities

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