Position: Senior Associate – Trade Operations
Practice: Wealth Management
Job Title: Senior Associate
Reporting To: Team Lead – Trade Operations
Experience: 3-5 years

About the role:
The Senior Associate - Trade Operations is responsible for managing the full post-trade lifecycle across multiple asset classes and custodial relationships. Responsibilities include ensuring accurate trade capture, compliance validation, allocation, confirmation, affirmation, reconciliation, and timely settlement with custodians and prime brokers. The senior associate also enhances operational controls, resolves exceptions, maintains standard operating procedures, mentors junior staff, and drives process automation, T+1 settlement compliance, and operational readiness for evolving industry requirements.

Key Responsibilities and Duties
- Trade lifecycle management: Oversee daily trade operations for equities, fixed income, and options, ensuring accurate entry in Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS), validation, routing, allocation, confirmation, affirmation, and settlement.




- Custodian and prime broker coordination: Act as the main operational contact for Pershing, Fidelity, Schwab, and Goldman Sachs. Coordinate prime brokerage and trade-away settlements, ensure accurate booking and reconciliation, and resolve failed trades and mismatched instructions.
- Settlement and exception management: Oversee Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Omgeo workflows, monitor exceptions, resolve discrepancies before settlement deadlines, and support compliance with T+1 settlement requirements and other evolving industry initiatives.
- Reconciliation and risk control: Reconcile trades, cash, and positions daily between internal systems and custodians. Maintain accurate trade blotters and custodial records, resolve discrepancies, and document outcomes for audit and compliance.
- Process improvement and automation: Identify opportunities to enhance controls, automate workfl

📌 Senior Associate – Trade Operations (Bengaluru)
🏢 Opteamix
📍 Bengaluru