Assistant Manager Securities Settlements

Requisition ID: 257982

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Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of the GWO Confirmations - Securities Settlements team globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensure all activities conducted follow governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Accountability

• Ensure the timely, accurate execution of the full settlement lifecycle across markets.

• Ensures timely confirmation of trades by tracking unmatched transactions across the unit & proactively analyzing/addressing root causes.

• Provides insight and support to management during planning, organizing and successful implementation of projects affecting the unit’s operations.

• Proactively supports management efforts to monitor group activity to ensure internal control procedures remain effective, are understood and adhered to.
• Supports management efforts to motivate staff, increase individual performance, execute a robust training schedule and assign workstation responsibilities fairly.

• Ensure a high degree of operational efficiency, processing accuracy, and conformity to Bank regulation

• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.

• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.

• Champions a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment, communicating vision/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Dimensions

Products handled:

• Fixed Income
• Equities
• FX
• Futures
• Derivatives
• Energy Commodity Derivatives

Main-frame systems supported:

• Wallstreet - Money Market
• Broadridge (BPS / Impact / GLOSS)
• Depositories (BNP / CDS / Citibank / Clearstream / DTC / FED)

Other software applications used:

• Anvil FI
• MMI
• Arrow
• ADP
• Impact
• Escape
• Jira
• Gloss
• Xceptor: Confirmation Hub

Education / Experience

• 2-3 years of experience in financial services ideally within reconciliation procedures.

• 2-3 years Capital Markets industry experience/knowledge; ideally within Securities Settlements.

• Experience in securities settlements across multiple asset classes and markets.

• Strong knowledge of global settlement systems (such as DTC, Euroclear, and Clearstream), deep understanding of regulatory frameworks (SEC rules, CSDR, SWIFT/ISO standards), and proven ability to resolve settlement exceptions, manage fails, and coordinate with brokers, custodians and optimize settlement processes in a high‑pressure, time‑sensitive environment.

• Excellent technical skills (VBA, SQL, PowerBi, Python, R).

• Leadership skills. (Nice to have)

• English level B2+

Working Conditions

• Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence. Travel may be required on an exception basis.