Job Title: Associate

Department: Market and Financial Services

About Business line/Function: Market and Financing Services (MFS) business line provides a range of solutions to support the increasingly sophisticated requirements of institutional investors, alternative asset managers and financial intermediaries. These include Securities Lending (Agency and Principal), Foreign Exchange (On demand FX, Auto FX, Passive Currency Overlay), Triparty Service and a variety of Financing solutions.

Position Purpose:Associate for performing Collateral Processing. Associate will be responsible for performing daily tasks related to Agency Lending Collateral Process, Exposure and Settlements for various markets and clients. They will be working closely with off-shore management, Agents, internal and external stakeholders as part of their daily tasks and will report to the Assistant Manager in Chennai. The staff will be working closely with all internal teams, Paris and local management as part of their daily BAU. Candidate with good functional understanding of the OTC derivative business along with basic knowledge on Agency Lending products & regulatory requirements is required

Preferred candidate profile

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

- Get trained in respective function and tasks of the Agency Lending.
- Liaising closely and provide an exceptional level of service to the Front Office.
- Keep up and manage every operational aspects linked to the activity of Agency Lending and maintain quality relationship with respective custodians, external stakeholders like counterparties and also with our traders.
- Check the exposures on client funds during the day and manage daily call margins with brokers and with triparty agents




- Monitor all the loans booked by Front Desk & collateral trades are settled in time in adherence to the settlement cycle.
- Sending the billing invoices, perform recon in case of differences to close billing within the SLA of the function.
- Resolve breaks in the reconciliation in collaboration with reconciliation team.
- Must be able to see tasks through to completion with a sense of accountability.
- Ensure Client & management reporting is made within deadline and without any errors or delay.
- Perform control tasks required for the process, double check and confirm the completion of tasks within the deadline in line with daily checklists.
- Contributing Responsibilities

- Escalating exceptions to appropriate processing team for resolution.
- Reporting of exceptions in line with internal control and external client requirements.
- Contributing to the team success.
- Actively involving in terms of having frequent checks in terms of activities in SOPs and ensuring timely update of Procedures in Global portal within expiry with completeness
- Extended error check in terms of identifying any errors/ incidents such that ensuring notifying reporting manager in terms of a complete write up of the incident within 24 hours post error occurrence.
- Actively involving in terms of training new joiners in the team. Ensuring end to end training of process flow, logic and BAU activities, and specific activities as per requirement.




- Should be able to independently carry forward any formalities in terms of on boarding any new Clients, for the existing process. This involves all the details relevance to services provided, any exceptions, relevant static and contacts details.
- Should be able to come up with training plans based on the designation/ experience and expertise of the trainees.
- Should be knowing end to end steps involved in terms of Daily/ Weekly/ Bi-weekly/ Monthly/ Quarterly/ Annual MIS analysis and presentation and the expertise ability should assist the management in case of any communication or follow up in future.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

- Ability to work independently, as well as in a team environment, prioritizes multiple tasks, and meets strict deadlines.
- Ability to work in a team environment in coordination with the colleagues and the mangers.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications and strong MS Excel skills required.

Specific Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Commerce or Equivalent

Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities)

Technical Skills:

Advanced Excel (modelbuilding, macros) able to create a 3statement model.
• Financialmodelling basics (DCF, comparablecompany).
• PowerPoint qualified pitchdeck creation.
• Bloomberg/Refinitiv –data retrieval & analytics.
• Introductory Python or VBA for automation.
• SQL –simple data extraction queries.
• Accounting & financialstatement analysis.
• Basic knowledge of marketabuse and regulatory framework.

Behavioral Skills:

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Ability to share / pass on knowledge

Critical thinking

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree

Location: Chennai CP II

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