Operation Analyst - Trade Management

at  WEPLUS PTE LTD

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Banking and Finance or relevant fields.
• Minimally 5 years of working experience in investment operations of insurance / fund management / banking & finance industry.
• Special skills - Strong application in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

ROLE SUMMARY

Responsible for providing transition support to BAU operations team on BBG PROD by allowing BAU team resources to be diverted for TOM implementation in Aladdin in the run up to go live e.g. Aladdin / BNYM Training / Pilot / Parallel Run activities.
Responsible for handling all daily BAU activities on BBG PROD in the following operational areas: Trade matching, settlements, reconciliation, and Trade Reporting and Proxy Voting, Corporate Actions including voluntary election processing.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Trade matching & settlement: Perform trade matching and sending settlement instructions to the custodians for Equities/Fixed Income/Transfers transactions.
• Data input in Bloomberg AIM/IBOR: Posting the reversal of coupon/dividends/repo cash/bond transfer cash. Uploading of External Fund Managers’ transactions into the systems.
• Confirmation of transactions (e.g. repos, bond transfers. IDR mutual funds) in Bloomberg AIM for downstream flow to SAP FAM & 3rd party outsourced service provider.
• Corporate Action: Handle the full lifecycle of a corporate event from the announcement to receipt of entitlements. Process coupon claim from repo counterparties.
• Proxy Voting: Monitor upcoming shareholders meeting, obtain Portfolio Manager’s decision and cast votes before instruction deadline.
• Transaction Reporting: Report trades executed for the day to interested parties and stakeholders. Send contract notes for central dealing funds to relevant business units.
• Perform daily position reconciliation between Bloomberg AIM vs custodian and IBOR vs custodian.
• Mutual Fund Order placement, trade matching & settlement: Process mutual fund orders instructed by Portfolio Managers by placing and sending orders to fund houses or custodian and Perform mutual trade matching between the details in Bloomberg AIM and contract note. Sent settlement instruction to the custodian for settlement.
• Performs other responsibilities and duties periodically assigned by supervisor in order to meet operational requirements.