What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trade Management Analyst position at KYYBA Inc?
Responsibilities:
Trade Management handles trade matching, trade settlement, and trade reporting for its investment manager clients. Securities in scope include equities, fixed income, listed derivatives, foreign exchange, and TBAs. The team is also responsible for ensuring timely integration of client trades through the Trade Management platform and into the ABOR/IBOR platform. A Trade Management Analyst will primarily be responsible for supporting daily trade activity including post trade confirmation, settlement and client reporting responsibilities including:
- Ensure timely and accurate settlement of trades across multiple security types, global markets, brokers, and custodians
- Ensure end of day reporting provided to relevant Oversight teams accurately reflects trade status and provides sufficient commentary
- Work closely with multiple external and internal parties to resolve trade discrepancies, including unmatched and failed security trades, foreign exchange contracts, overdrafts, and wires.
- Act as the primary escalation contact within to ensure settlement related issues are resolved in a timely manner
- Create and maintain accurate broker and custodian settlement instructions across multiple databases
- Ensure accuracy of new account profiles within all internal systems
- Ongoing review of existing processes to identify potential improvements to create new efficiencies and increase quality and controls
Minimum Required Qualifications
- One year of related financial industry experience in back and middle office operations with an emphasis on trade settlement.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with SWIFT and/or BBH Infomediary
- Expertise associated with equity and fixed income securities settlement, both US and international, including knowledge of FX, buy-ins, 144A and restricted securities, and physical securities
- Proven ability to maintain a customer service focused attitude in a high pressure securities environment
- Ability to work independently within established guidelines and strict operational controls
