Institutional Equity Settlements

1 week ago


Sydney, Australia Anton Murray Consulting Full time

Sydney- Ancillary Areas, Asset Management, Investment Banking, Wealth Management- Permanent**Responsibilities**:

- Ensuring that all operational risks are recognised and managed
- Developing and maintaining strong client relationships
- Making sure transactions are settled and recorded correctly
- Providing value-added support in new markets and new products
- Continually seeking opportunities for improvement and delivering innovative solutions
- Liaise with Local Agents to facilitate timely trade settlement, as required on a daily basis
- Liaise with Local Agents for ad hoc market settlement queries
- Liaise with Trade Support and Client Service groups for unmatched or failing trade resolution and ad hoc settlement queries
- Understand the rules and regulations of the Australian markets and work within risk parameters
- Clear stock and cash breaks between internal accounts vs. external custodian bank’s records, as required on a daily basis
- Clear internal reconciliation breaks for both stock and cash, as required on a daily basis
- Investigate daily pre-matching or failing trade issues and communicate to various business units
- Facilitate cross-border transfers of dual listed stocks
- Assist with Management reporting for settlement rates and aged items
- Identify and mitigate risk
- Escalation of high risk items as per firm standards
- Change / adapt process as required by market regulations or internal guidelines
- TD+2 matching and chasing of custodians
- Reconciliation of domestic stock positions - Settlement / Entrepot and Proprietary accounts
- Reconciliation of cash accounts including Trust accounts
- Instruct Custodians of cash and stock movements via SWIFT and GBST
- Monitor proprietary trading versus stock availability
- Co-ordinate FX payments
- Report distribution to Treasury and Stock Loan departments

**Requirements**:

- Minimum 4 years financial markets experience, ideally in an Equity Settlements or Operations role with a broker dealer
- Exposure to CHESS required
- Extremely accurate and reliable
- Self motivated
- Ability to analyse Settlements Risk and take appropriate action to escalate issues
- Ability to interact and communicate effectively with local custodians, internal business units and client service groups on market issues
- Able to work in a fluid team environment and within tight deadlines
- Able to work flexible hours
- Ability to work with colleagues in offshore locations, maintain communication and build rapport with these colleagues
- High level of attention to detail
- Ability to provide high levels of client service
- Ability to multi-task, prioritise and project manage daily workflow
- Ability to work through and close out problems
- Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
- Commitment, strong work ethic and significant leadership potential


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