Reconciliation and Cash Oversight Associate, Operations

Job title

Reconciliation & Cash Oversight Analyst, Hyderabad – Team Member

Position description

• Daily reconciliation of IBOR Cash and Asset positions vs Custody
• Allocation of exceptions to relevant responsible parties
• Liaison with relevant internal departments to ensure exception resolution
• Daily publishing of Cash balances
• Escalation of high value and aged items to Management

Department name

Reconciliation and Cash Oversight, Hyderabad

Supervisor

Reconciliation Team Leader, Hyderabad

Location

Hyderabad, India

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

• As a member of the Reconciliation and Cash Oversight team you will be responsible for the daily review of cash and position reconciliation exceptions for your allocated accounts.
• You will be responsible for the publishing of cash balances, within the agreed deadlines.  You will escalate any instances where deadlines are under threat.
• You will be responsible for assigning reconciliation exceptions to the relevant responsible party and following up with them to ensure that exceptions are cleared within agreed timeframes.  
• In performing your duties, you will work closely with both internal partners (including, but not restricted to, Portfolio Management, Public & Private Operations) and relevant external parties (including Global Custodians) to ensure timely and accurate resolution of reconciliation exceptions.
• You will follow the processes and controls set out by team management.
• Once fully trained, you will demonstrate credibility with a proven competency and knowledge of the related operational activities, as well as drive efficiency and accuracy to reduce risk in our processes.

Goals

• Execution of accurate and timely daily cash and position reconciliations, ensuring tasks are prioritized accordingly to meet processing deadlines.
• Ensuring that cash reconciliation exceptions are resolved on a timely basis, and that high value items are escalated to Management as appropriate.
• Work closely with business partners to provide daily operational support relating to cash and position exceptions.
• Identification of  risk issues and escalation to your team leader.
• Develop strong relationships with the HK, UK and US teams and other relevant 3rd parties e.g., Custodians, to ensure smooth workflows and enhance the output of the team.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Mandatory

• Good understanding of cash and position reconciliation processing.
• Good understanding of operational risks and controls
• Experience with Aladdin desirable.
• Analytical ability to evaluate the root causes of the problems
• Able to manage heavy workload, understand urgency, multitask and prioritize to meet deadlines
• Strong teamwork ethic whilst also having the ability to function with some direction from your team leader, challenge yourself to learn new things and continually improve
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal particularly when escalating issues to the APAC / EMEA and US teams.
• Exposure to different asset classes like Equities, bonds, FX, Loans etc.,
• Understanding of different post trade activities like trade processing, settlements, corporate actions/income processing and how they are related to reconciliations would be an added advantage.

Education and experience

• Any graduation/post-graduation.
• 2+ years’ experience in financial services
• Recent experience of Reconciliations and Trade Input
• Recent and relevant experience in Trade Operations

Application Requirements

• Aladdin
• Custody / Administrator Portals

Support Hours

08:00 - 17:00 UK /

09:00 - 18:00 HK

Will require coverage for all Global APAC / EMEA / US working days.