Associate Specialist
Broadridge Outsourcing Services
Jersey City, Nj
· Reconcile Stocks and Bonds trades for TRIACT, CNQ. CDNX. TSE, ICX, ALPHA and CHIX exchanges using the Canadian Arrow system · Balance and accurately reconcile intra company and external company breaks · Process equity breaks by picking up step outs from brokers on OCS system, and submitting step outs to contra brokers on OCS and ACT· Research, identify and resolve discrepancies to the satisfaction of all involved parties· Allocate problems to the correct customers to avoid loss · Adjust operational errors to ensure proper functioning of systems and processes · Proactively identify, research and resolve issues based on response from customers· Ensure aged problems are given priority attention in order to minimize operational risk· Manually process trade exceptions and adjustments that the standard ticketing system cannot process from trading desk· Played a key role in Disaster Recovery testing Involved in testing various work functions during migration from ADP to IBM systems· Reconcile Exchange Rate discrepancies ensuring correct usage of factor rates in correspondent clearing· Process Bloomberg adjustments· Serve as subject matter expert to clients on Prospectus inquiries· Manage Ex Clearing bonds and equities processes including ex clearing bond fail run for outsourcing clients, verification of bonds and equities with contract brokers, and fails through DTC · Manage fixed income bonds clearing process, including stamp broker advice on RTTM, resolving breaks with contra brokers, and reconciling breaks in suspense accounts· Oversee the equities on contracts process by sending out breaks for new day as well as past settlement days. Monitor equity suspense account and resolve breaks· Monitor and reconcile suspense accounts and firm balancing for outsourcing clients