Senior Investment Operations Analyst - £65-70K + bens & bonus

Our client, a well-respected boutique Asset Management firm, is seeking a seasoned Investment Operations Analyst to join their dynamic team. This role plays a critical part in supporting the firm’s investment operations, with responsibilities spanning trade administration, reconciliations, corporate actions and data management. The Senior Analyst will play a critical role in ensuring day to day responsibilities are met in addition to looking for ways to streamline and automate processes.

Roles & Responsibilities

All trade matching related tasks, including trade matching, settlement, managing trade exceptions and fail trades, counterparties’ standard settlement instructions (SSI) maintenance.
Ensuring trades are communicated via Swift and resolving any transmission issues.
Performing operations tasks related to derivatives (exchange-traded and OTC) trading, including instructions, margins and reconciliations.
Processing of elective and mandatory corporate actions both internally and with custodians.
Maintain custodian static data including SSIs.
Perform daily reconciliations with counterparties including custodians and clearers.
Investigation and clearance of breaks and follow-up all the way through resolution.
Static Data maintenance within key systems including SimCorp Dimension.
Perform post-trade tasks including regulatory reporting related to MIFIR, EMIR, SFTR.
Undertake relevant training and collaborate closely with the wider team to ensure cross-training, knowledge sharing and smooth operations.
Contribute to project aiming to enhance the department and wider firm processes, including for example to leverage technology and build a data-centric infrastructure.

Experience & Qualifications

Minimum 5 years of demonstrated investment operations experience including all aspects of trade matching, settlement and reconciliations.
Experience supporting operations for equities and fixed income products.
Experience with derivatives is not required but would be beneficial.
Experience processing corporate actions.
Understanding of market infrastructure (brokers, custodians), interacting with market players and stakeholders, maintaining relationships with them.
Regulatory reporting experience (e.g. MIFIR, EMIR, SFTR obligations).
Experience maintaining and validating investment data in various systems.
Experience with trade matching systems such Omgeo CTM & ALERT.
Experience with swift payments and messages (including generation).
Regulatory reporting systems such as UnaVista, DTCC or Trax.
Experience using order management systems such as Dimension, Charles River, Aladdin would be a distinct advantage.
Experience of reconciliations systems such as Corona.

To hear more about this exciting opportunity, please contact Alex Brown on 020 7847 8878 or email your CV to alex@meredithbrown.com

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