Job Title: Bond and CDS Middle Office - Senior Analyst

Experience: 3 to 5 Years

Location: Mumbai

Roles & Responsibilities

- Oversee trade validation, reconciliation, and lifecycle management across Bonds, Equity, CDS, CDS Index, IRS, and Convertible Bonds.

- Prioritize and resolve trader queries, investigate discrepancies, and escalate complex or high-risk trades.

- Mentor junior analysts and drive process improvements, operational efficiency, and control enhancements.

- Manage reporting and analytics, including options expiry, bond maturity, credit bond checks, broker validations, linked/unlinked trades, and structured repo margining.

- Monitor reporting accuracy, timeliness, data quality, and exception resolution across deliverables.

- Oversee reconciliation controls, including TLM, Data Quality Engine (DQE), gateway monitoring, and Front Office exceptions.

- Investigate red flags, analyse root causes, monitor key risk indicators (KRIs), and escalate control breaches.

- Manage settlement workflows, including pre-settlement checks,



invoice reconciliation, bond setup, and valuation fail investigations.

- Coordinate with Trading, Operations, and other stakeholders to resolve settlement and trade-related issues.

- Establish quality standards and strengthen operational controls across middle office activities.

Requisites

- Strong experience in financial markets operations, particularly Bond and CDS Middle Office functions.

- Good understanding of the trade lifecycle, trade validation, reconciliation, and settlement processes.

- Knowledge of Bonds, Equity, Credit Default Swaps (CDS), CDS Index, Interest Rate Swaps (IRS), and Convertible Bonds.

- Experience in reporting, exception management, data quality monitoring, and risk and control frameworks.

- Understanding of settlement workflows, static data management, and trade valuation issues.

- Robust analytical, problem-solving, and root cause analysis skills.

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