Associate
Hyderabad Area, India
Middle Office group supports firm’s trading activities around various investment products like equity, fixed income, futures, currency, swaps and other exotic derivatives. As a member of Middle Office group I was responsible for managing firm-wide transactions and reference data which include trade booking/amendment process, instructing broker for position transfers, capturing corporate actions, facilitating settlement process, modeling new asset classes and managing data exceptions. Was… Show more Middle Office group supports firm’s trading activities around various investment products like equity, fixed income, futures, currency, swaps and other exotic derivatives. As a member of Middle Office group I was responsible for managing firm-wide transactions and reference data which include trade booking/amendment process, instructing broker for position transfers, capturing corporate actions, facilitating settlement process, modeling new asset classes and managing data exceptions. Was responsible for ensuring that day to day operations function smoothly and issues are resolved in a timely manner.Roles and Responsibilities:• Book and amend trades in Front office systems for listed and on OTC products like: CDS, Converts, IRS, Variance Swaps, Fx forwards, Commodity Forwards, Repos etc.• Create and update investment products (all listed and OTC) in firm’s database and trading universe.• Manage reference data tasks like capturing and recording corporate actions, interest rates, coupons, and other feeds from Reuters and Bloomberg.• Investigate and book corporate actions like splits, bonus, M&A, tender-offer, expiries, novations and settlement trades in BO/FO systems.• Instruct position transfers between brokers and booking them.• Investigate and fix transactional and reference data quality warnings.• Work closely with other team members to address operational issues.• Liaise with Strategy Operation (StratOps) groups ensuring confirmations and settlements are completed in a timely manner and according to Firm policy.• Researching from various sites and data vendors to maintain key attributes and databases up to date.• Support groups deliverables during Night-Ops.• Training and mentoring new team recruits.• Familiar with Microsoft Office, SQL, Unix Show less