Trades Settlements Analyst; FTC

Overview

Trade Settlements is a team in the London Operations Department. It is responsible for Trade Matching and Settlement of trades that are booked by the dealing team. Other teams within the Department cover client data maintenance, asset transfers, corporate actions and income collection, reconciliations, client fee calculation and client reporting.

• Trade Matching, using CTM. Deals entered onto Trinity Bridge’s in-house platform (Symphony) vs Broker confirmations.
• FX booking for foreign currency deals, within FX Connect.
• Ensuring trade Instructions are sent to our custodians. Using CTM Settlement Notification as well as Manual Upload files to custody.
• Unmatched and Failed Trade management
• Stock and Cash break investigation and resolution against Settlement accounts. Ensuring that breaks are accurately annotated by close of business daily.
• Payments processing daily, between Client Money accounts, Settlement accounts and corporate accounts, ensuring compliance with CASS rules at all times.
• Payments to UTM’s for settlement of unit trust trades.
• Effectively managing Broker and custodian queries on a timely basis within agreed SLA’s.
• Client Contract note production, running pre and post checks during the process.

• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the regulatory framework relevant to the role, whilst practising effective risk management taking account of outcomes for clients.
• Understand, follow and demonstrate compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations and procedures that apply to the conduct of the business. Follow principles and rules of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the internal requirements set out in the Compliance Manual, local and Group Compliance and Risk policies.

• Understand the trade settlement process for different products and different markets such as UK, US, European and unit trusts and offshore Funds
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Be able to work in a team and also independently when required on certain projects.
• Be flexible and able to prioritise workloads.
• Build working relationships with other Operations teams, Dealing Desk and Fund Managers as well as external counterparts including custodians and brokers.
• Ensure that all tasks are completed each day
• Previous exposure to operations processes within an asset management or wealth management firm
• Ideally have some knowledge of the Pulse platform, CTM, FX Connect, EMX and CREST GUI