Trading and Execution Operations Specialist

4 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

Job Description

To support front office teams by performing the processing functions of confirmations, settlements, and reconciliations across the various product sets
- Monitor and follow-up outstanding confirmations in line with specific business requirements
- Perform settlements
- Display accuracy and attention to detail in ensuring settlements are correctly processed in line with minimum standards
- Monitor system alerts to confirm that settlements occurred successfully
- Comply with and adhere to identified governance and compliance standards and escalate problems for investigation and resolution Identify and escalate risk as normal part of work
- Ensure transactions not executed by a trader are accurately reflected in the system
- Facilitate timely and accurate communication/notification of trades to the relevant parties.
- Ensure all trades executed in the trading system are processed in the system in an effort to prevent incorrect transaction or position data from being sent to various internal systems or reflected on reports which use data from the accounting system.
- Analyse previous day's Exception Report and attend to any open items Investigate and resolve open exception items and escalate to relevant stakeholder(s) for resolution
- Understand process flows in order to identify which systems are causing mismatches and escalate where necessary
- Research and resolve open factor or trade issues
- Escalate issues to Trade Execution and/or Trade Processing Team Leader/Manager where necessary
- Display attention to detail in checking instructions and ensuring trades are booked correctly on source systems Monitor exceptions on confirmations that have been electronically generated
- Promote teamwork and inclusivity amongst team members and demonstrates behaviours that respect diversity
- Establish relationships with relevant individuals and departments to deliver on work expectations
- Adhere to relevant service level agreements to build trust in the relationship
- Partner and collaborate with team members to achieve team success
- Share information and knowledge that benefits the team
- Participate and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared
- Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders to achieve productivity synergies
- Participate in specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement

Job Details

08/10/24

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