Officer, Ops Analyst, Japan Settlements

**Your background**
- Investment banking experience, preferably in a trade support function for TP role.
- Understanding of front to back flow between trading desk and operations is preferred.
- Knowledge in cash equity products/fixed income products is preferred.
- Outstanding communication skills as well as well-developed interpersonal skills are essential since this role involves a lot of internal and external liaison.
- Business level spoken and written English language
- Fluency in written and spoken Japanese is ideal.

**Other Qualifications**:

- Strives to bring new thoughts and ideas to teams in order to drive innovation and unique solutions
- Excels in working among diverse viewpoints to determine the best path forward
- Experience in connecting with a diverse set of clients to understand future business needs - is a continuous learner
- Commitment to challenging the status quo and promoting positive change.
- Participate in and drive collaborative efforts to advance tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve an evolving client base
- Believes in value of diversity so we can reflect, connect and meet the diverse needs of our clients and employees around the world

**What you can expect**

2. The Japan cash equity settlements team is responsible for performing settlement duties for the Japanese market for equity stock, convertible bonds, and other listed securities in Japan. Our key objectives are to ensure that all settlements are completed accurately and on time as well as that our service delivery to clients are efficient, effective, and reliable.

**What you will do**
- Japan Equity settlement control
- Settlement instructions data feed
- Allocate the trades and follow up with the clients and desk
- Sending confirmation to the clients
- TD reconciliation for client trades vs. market trades
- Standing instructions set up and correction of the instructions
- Funding for the account
- Reporting, generation of settled/failed/commitment report
- Reconciliation of position and cash balance
- Inquire allocation, confirmation, and settlement queries to related departments/branch offices
- Liaison with Client Services of Tokyo, HK, London and New York
- Daily/Monthly reporting re: trade volume, fail rate, project status and etc.
- Communicating with desk and clients for any issues in terms of allocation and confirmation.
- Corresponding and liaison with custodian on various issues throughout the settlement process, including details of payment, instructions on value date, settlement instructions etc.
- Working on the project and UAT
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**Job Band**:
H6**Shift**:
**Hours Per Week**:
40**Weekly Schedule**:
**Referral Bonus Amount**:
0