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Department: Middle Office Location: Mysore ThoughtFocus is a privately held global technology and consulting firm founded in 2004, headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin, USA. The company specializes in digital services and technology-enabled operations, primarily serving the financial services, manufacturing, higher education, and public sectors. What You’ll Do: • Candidate should be able to do daily transaction management, creation, and management of security master across different asset classes, reference data management and asset servicing. • Help the project POC’s to onboard clients on Client's platform from middle office perspective: define the scope, integrate with client’s OMS and testing along with a proper sign off, also help in establishing workflows. • Perform day to day-to-day operations including exceptions resolution and timely response to close the loop with various stakeholders. • Coordinate with client ops teams, investment managers, data vendors to resolve day-to-day exceptions, as well as develop more strategic initiatives. • Consult with other internal functions like pricing and trade accounting to resolve discrepancies and/or respond to internal queries. • Create & maintain proper documentation of new and already established workflows. • Work with technology teams as needed, by assisting in special projects, developing bespoke reports, developing specifications, product implementation and UAT. Hands on Experience in: o Trade life cycle management o Trade booking o Trade affirmation o Trade reconciliation o P&L reporting Strong understanding of financial products: o Equities o Fixed Income o Derivatives (Futures, Options, Swaps) What You’ll Need: • Experience of 3- 7years in the financial services industry and a very strong knowledge of financial products across asset classes - equities, fixed income, commodities, FX, and Credit • An MBA and/or CFA, preferably • An in-depth understanding of the various stages of the trade life cycle • An understanding of data sources such as Refinitiv, Bloomberg, IDC, Markit, etc. • Experience in integration with different trade execution systems • Strong analytical skills, critical thinking skills, and attention to detail • The ability to be initiative-taking and to think independently along with solid organizational skills. • Strong people skills. • Effective oral/written communications skills • The ability to work under pressure and take on additional operational responsibilities. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and SQ • Experience in VBA/Python is a big plus. Show more Show less
