Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description
Primary functions and essential responsibilities

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- Perform detailed reconciliations of trade attributes - including traded quantity, price and asset - to ensure alignment with counterparty records
- Knowledge of Bond, ABS and FX settlement workflows
- Existing knowledge of SWIFT and Euroclear. Clearstream , DTCC systems, including the ability to initiate and manage trade amendments via SWIFT. Proven experience in resolving trade failures with custodians and counterparties




- Knowledge of MIFID II and/or EMIR reporting advantageous
- Knowledge of CSDR Claims process.
- Attention to detail when loading and updating trades as needed in our OMS
- Communicates well and able to organize workload to meet deadlines
- Robust attention to detail when dealing with wire uploads
- Direct fund administrators and custodian banks on appropriate processing and review/reconcile processing activity to ensure accuracy.
- Proactively research, resolve and prevent settlement cash and par breaks with custodian banks and third-party administrators
- Timely crosschecking of trades with funding memos/Clear Par, booking trade fees as per funding memo, and settle with correct quantity
- Knowledge of loan settlements workflow and prior use of Clearpar advantageous
- Handle adhoc requests in a timely fashion
- Identify opportunities and work with all internal and external stakeholders to improve process efficienc

📌 Senior Associate (Mumbai)
🏢 Ares Operations
📍 Mumbai