Analyst - CASS Reconciliations

at  Close Brothers Group

This opportunity would suit a detail-oriented individual, looking to start their career in a technical and specialist area of Operations within Financial Services.
In this newly created role, the incoming hire will ensure that all client money & assets held by Winterflood are accurately accounted for and safeguarded, ensuring the firms adherence to controls and the FCA CASS regulations.
The successful hire will learn how to to construct reconciliations, identify discrepancies, documenting findings, and work closely with operational teams to implement corrective actions to resolve these discrepancies.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Excellent communicator; able to engage positively with colleagues at all levels and third parties.
• Demonstrable interest to build a career within Financial Services
• High standard of IT literacy with a focus on Microsoft Excel. Ability to use advanced functions and formulas is advantageous.
• Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to work independently and meet deadlines.

BENEFITS

• Competitive salary plus discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review
• Work Abroad Policy for up to 15 days per year
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and additional well-being day
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Pension scheme up to 10% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private health care via BUPA
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Variety of travel to work schemes
  Company benefits are provided on completion of either six months service, or a successful probation period whichever is sooner.
  Entitlement outlined above is in respect of full-time entitlement, and will be provided to part-time workers on a prorate basis in accordance with the relevant scheme rules.
  All benefits are subject to rules of the scheme and associated provider. The Company in its sole and absolute discretion reserves the right to discontinue, vary or amend any of the aforementioned benefits.
  At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.
  We appreciate that from time to time, recruitment agencies will have speculative CVs that they may wish to submit to our Talent Acquisition team in relation to a specific role.
  To avoid any ambiguity around fees, please note that speculative CVs received by Close Brothers, that have not been authorised in advance, by us, will be ineligible for an agency fee. Thank you.
  Winterflood Business Services (WBS) is a business to business (B2B) platform provider whose award-winning service has seen us grow to over £15bn AUA with an expanding client list. Our highly skilled and experienced team is dedicated to providing the standards our clients rightly demand.
  Our aim is to help solve client problems and ease their regulatory and administrative burden with secure, integrated, and bespoke end-to-end solutions to achieve their investment objectives. Execution quality and excellent service are at the core of our business, all set out in our service level agreements for full transparency.
  The WBS service is provided through our EOS platform, which is a proprietary system developed by our in-house development team. EOS is built using the latest technologies and is based on micro-service architecture, making the platform easy to scale and deploy new functionality. We are also market innovators, capable of recognising unfilled needs and developing products to suit our customers’ needs and changing regulatory requirements.
  We became a separate division of Winterflood Securities in 2010, in response to demand from clients who were looking for ‘whole of market access and ‘custody services’. Our strategy remains to continue to invest in people, process, and technology to allow us to scale for the growth in our existing business, as well as taking on new client

• Construct CASS reconciliations in accordance with internal policies including, but not limited to client money and client asset reconciliations.
• Undertaking discrepancy management, ensuring exceptions are investigated and appropriately escalated.
• Ensure that client money and client asset shortfalls are identified.
• Construct the daily Internal Client Money Reconciliation
• Production of Management Information (“MI”).
• Assist in User Acceptance Testing or other system testing that is required relating reconciliation activities.
• Assist in the implementation of process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy in reconciliations.
• Investigate, action and respond to queries in a timely manner
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