Middle Office Specialist

Middle Office

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:

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.