Associate, Extended Back Office

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Job description

Business type

Types of Jobs – IT, Digital et Data

Job title

Associate, Extended Back Office

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Management position

No

Job summary

Summary

Processing and maintenance of all Interest Rate Derivatives on the NY book, and related cash settlements. Alternately, assist EBO team in the processing and settlement of Paris’ Securities transactions; account opening; EOD funding.

Key Area Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities EQUITY:

Management of trading operations for Equities / Convertible Bonds / EIS Sales scopes :

• Monitoring of settlement-delivery of operations for equities
• Management of settlement-delivery on physical OSTs
• Monitoring of CB issuance settlements

Main Responsibilities of the Equities Lending/Borrowing:

• Verification of proper transaction integration in the settlement-delivery chain
• Verification of proper receipt of settlement instructions by custodians
• Monitoring of proper operation settlements
• Real-time monitoring of global positions
• Escalation of failed transactions to FO
• Management of issues with IT support
• Management of accounting suspense items

Main Responsibilities of the Securities Lending/Borrowing Collateral:

• Management of triparty longbox funding
• Monitoring of proper daily operation settlements for the implementation of cash and securities collateral
• Monitoring of payment defaults/cash receipt in relation to treasury and accounting

Main Responsibilities of the Securities Lending/Borrowing Invoicing Division:

• Monthly generation and sending of invoices
• Reconciliation of received invoices
• Analysis and investigation of identified discrepancies
• Correction of discrepancies and payment processing
• Monitoring of payment defaults and accounting suspense items
• Research for optimization of invoicing processes

  (EBO)

• Manage any pending transactions for DTC/FED and BNY settlements with regard to primary and secondary markets. This includes government issues, repo settlements and resets, corporate bonds, triparty activity, and asset backed securities.
• Follow up on CAD/MXN trade issues with agent banks; limited trade processing as required.
• Settlement of equities transactions, buy and sell, repo and securities lending/borrowing activities
• All related operational management, including billing processing.
  BNY Custody account settlements/monitoring and related reconciliations.
• Soc Gen Futures processing – daily margin calls and program monitoring/reconciliation review.
• Manage settlement issues on behalf of Paris book during NY business hours.
• Liaise with NY Front Office/Middle Office and the custodian as required.
• Liaise with counterparties as needed in coordination with Bondsettlement team in Paris and CAS BO.
• Monitor and investigate breaks on real-time daily position report reconciliation (Calypso against P3).
• Maintain referential data, including creation and modification of SDI records on Calypso and accounts on Phase3 using Calypso and ALERT.
• Validate CA positions on new Treasury auctions with MO for regulatory reporting.

Salary Range: $100k-$120k

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Supplementary Information

Cont’d

• Review trades with Japanese clients to ensure integrity of data flowing from Calypso to Phase 3.
• Investigate and liaise with clients and MO regarding EOD client fails and DK’s, until resolution.
• Review of processing queues and alerts from sub-systems (EAI, EFIRA, Murex, APEX, OT) to ensure smooth transaction workflow.
• End of business day (3pm) Calypso queue verification to ensure all trades and issues have been addressed for same day value.
• Provide Paris BO with daily end of day IM reports.
• Update of 15A6 trade accounts on Calypso to correct internal reconciliation breaks.
• Contribute to annual procedures document updates.
• Annual bank compliance tutorials as assigned.

Management and Reporting

• CMO-CMB Management

Key Internal contacts (Derivatives)

• IRD and MM desk traders
• Funds Transfer group
• Control and Reconciliation teams
• Paris CMO Derivatives and Documentation teams (EBO)
• CAS Domestic Settlements
• MO (NY, Paris, HK, FFT, Italy, London, Tokyo)
• CAS Trade Support
• Client On-boarding
• Calypso/Summit/Integration Services IT support teams

Key External contacts

• Soc Gen/BNY account officers
• Clients, brokers as needed

Position location

Geographical area

America, United States Of America

City

NEW YORK

Candidate criteria

Academic qualification / Speciality

Education Essential: Bachelor’s Degree or Relevant Work Experience

Level of minimal experience

6-10 years

Experience

Experience Essential:

• 5+ years in Back Office settlements or Trade Support. Focus on Equities products

Required skills

Competencies Required:

• Capacity to cooperate with other team members; ability to work across disciplines; ability to analyze and summarize

Skills & Knowledge Requirements

• Knowledge of Derivatives’ and Securities processing; Payments; regulatory requirements
• Working knowledge of Excel; SWIFT; Calypso, Phase 3; ALERT

Relevant Information

• Ability to work in a highly demanding environment
• French Speaker is a plus

Languages

English