Northern Trust Hiring for Hedge Fund Services Clearing & Settlements & Corporate Actions at   Pune, Bangalore Full Time

Business : Global Hedge Fund Administrator (Pune / Bangalore)

Role Description:

The job requires working for a Global Hedge Fund Administrator, specializing in administering assets of complex hedge funds. This individual will have a strong technical Accounting background; experience working within the Financial Services industry. The position within Middle Office and Operations teams involves understanding of various investment instruments like Derivatives, Swaps, CFDs, Repos, Equities, Fixed Income Products and Alternative assets; Options, Futures, performing daily reconciliation of transactions, security positions, cash for all trading activity generated by clients, analyse P&L, MTM and collateral checks.

Accountabilities:

• Employees are required to comply with the regulatory regime in which Northern Trust operates as appropriate to the above role
• Employees are expected to exercise due care and diligence, ensuring the areas the incumbent is responsible for are organised and controlled
• Employees are required to observe proper standards of market, business and personal conduct, demonstrating integrity in the execution of duties
• Reports to TL/ Section Manager

Middle Office Teams

Clearing & Settlement

• Trade processing and cash settlements, understanding of trade settlement procedures.
• Reconciliation to ensure all the activities processed are correct and break resolution as necessary and identify discrepancies between client’s position and clearing agents with good troubleshooting skills.
• Understand and minimize risks associated with breaks and trade mismatches and settlement of cash flows associated with various financial instruments.

Corporate Actions

• Understanding of various Corporate Action processes includes both all types of Mandatory and Voluntary Corporate Actions and processing for various Corporate Action notices.
• Should have sound knowledge of using various third party instruments like Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC etc.
• Reconciliation to ensure all the activities processed are correct and break resolution as necessary , identify discrepancies between client’s position and clearing agents with good troubleshooting skills and understanding and minimizing risks associated with cash and position mismatches related to Corporate Actions.

QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS / EXPERIENCE :

• Experience in Financial Services environment, preferably, with experience in Derivatives and Middle Office functions
• Experience with Hedge Funds, Investment Management and/or Financial Services strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in Accounting, Finance or a quantitative discipline. Masters’ degree would be an advantage.
• Business exposure to Equity or Credit or at least some complex derivative products like CDS, IRS, TRS & other OTC products.
• Knowledge of financial products like, Equity, Derivatives, Repo, Futures and Options ,Fixed Income and Alternative assets etc

Years of exp: 2-9 years

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