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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Provide the forecast of expected nostro related cash activity and/or monitor direct clearing activity.• Check and release funding calculations/payments.• Pro-active approach to cash funding /nostro forecasting to maximize net interest revenue and reduce exposure.• Maintaining ongoing awareness of issues relating to cash funding e.g. FX and interest rate volatility.• Maintaining and fostering relationships with internal and external counterparts such as client service groups, brokers and subcustodians, agent banks and clearing schemes.• Preparing and validating reports for delivery to management.• Offering operational support for team manager and deputise when required.• Participate in projects as necessary

Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Management of NAV Pricing Service Delivery •​ Carry out oversight review of funds valuation process on a daily basis challenging price movements and ensuring tolerance validation• ​Ensure successful delivery of daily prices by agreed deadlines•​ Ensure accurate and timely reporting of errors and breaches•​ Co-ordinate other regular periodic deliverables to the client in line with SLA(eg Yields, KPIs, Expense invoices)•​ Develop and review procedures•​ Review complex client deliverables•​ Provide technical expertise•​ Liaise with internal teams that form part of NAV delivery process resolving issues as they arise•​ Oversee cash and stock reconciliations•​ Support colleagues from within the operating model and monitor/review the quality of service they deliver to us•​ Minimise errors/breaches with the aim of having none that result in a financial loss/claim to State Street or the Client•​ Review corporate documentation on processes, procedures and controls and evaluate the continuing effectiveness of these and related systems, initiating remedial action as necessary.•​ Ensure documentation exists for any client-specific procedures.•​ Monitor errors and potential breaches; complete relevant documentation and ensure training needs are identified and relevant training is carried Liaise and assist with audit/internal queries

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• ​Monitor Nostro balances and investigate any discrepancies to ensure minimal costs are incurred, liaising with the funding desks and Money Flow where appropriate• ​Investigation of all incoming and outgoing interest and overdraft claims ensuring these are followed through to resolution, with timely processing of all operational losses• ​Liaise and escalate to ensure all risks, material events and near misses are recorded in line with Group policy• ​Manage the flow of incoming and outgoing SWIFT messages for Markets Operations• ​Produce detailed MI for high level stakeholders across the Markets Operations business as well as CB Markets.• ​Deliver the timely settlement of all Brokerage and Fees payments and engaging CB Markets Front Office stakeholders• Produce daily CASS reports to ensure effective controls and escalation to Governance and Control Risk Governance of any breaches of FCA Client Money Regulations, ensuring business returns are high quality and accurate• ​Embed a robust risk framework, performing regular team attestations to ensure procedure adherence, and contributing to Risk Governance, SOX and external Audit testing

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Worked in a high profile funded anti money laundering project at £50m • Worked and adopted an Agile working environment midway through a project cycle from a waterfall approach• Taken part with scrum masters and also leading scrums including creating user stories and using KANBAN• Experience in implementation through creating schedule of events and implementation training packs presented to the operations team and to the governance board• Responsibilities include taking actions and following up with owners from meetings• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills gained through regular workshop meetings in analysis and design work• Heavily involved with project re-plan work involving producing governance documents and following up with milestones and any potential risks and issues called out.• Produced a large scale of an end to end roadmap plan with the use of Microsoft Visio for the programme and also for our third party supplier which is still being used to this day.• Ensuring programme milestones are on track for completion and notifying others if milestones aren’t met.• Responsible for organising and facilitating weekly meetings with work stream leads to discuss updates from each team to be added to Planview.• Responsible for compiling reports from Planview into a pack on a weekly basis for the team delivery meeting.• Started and facilitated a change request forum which allowed any new and current change request forms to be discussed and managed in an open forum to manage progress and updates.• Working efficiently and prioritising work to meet deadlines to a high standard.

Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities include checking monthly suspense account reconciliations, checking journals, identifying misposting of journals, VAT analysis and reconciliation• Excellent team player, able to contribute and work as part of a team to achieve a common objective• Worked as a team during annual accounts to meet a tight deadline. Delegated and instructed what tasks to each member of the team to meet the deadline. • Communication with the team on discussions on tasks that are required to be done on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills gained through regular use of journals and accounts• Experience with Scottish Government Accounting System (SEAS)• Developed competent communication skills through speaking to customers over the phone • Heavily involved end of year accounts including finding accruals and prepayments, also assisted external audits for sampling data• Processing invoices on a daily basis • Working efficiently to meet deadlines to a high standard