Senior Analyst, Trade Settlements

Role Overview

• Independently support prematching, confirmation, settlement, and post‑settlement activities across equities, fixed income, FX, and related asset classes
• Own end‑to‑end processing from confirmation through settlement, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to market cut‑offs
• Validate and match trade details with brokers, custodians, clearing houses, and internal systems
• Investigate and resolve trade breaks, settlement fails, cash breaks, and discrepancies, coordinating with counterparties and internal teams
• Identify and mitigate settlement risk, counterparty risk, and currency risk, escalating material or aged issues appropriately
• Act as the first point of escalation for Analysts, providing guidance and resolution support before further escalation to Technical Coordinators or Team Leaders
• Provide clear status updates and recommended actions when escalating unresolved or high‑risk items
• Execute processes in line with approved SOPs and DPAD documentation, ensuring control discipline and audit readiness
• Ensure operational adherence to applicable regulations and market standards
• Support internal controls and best practices designed to minimize operational, financial, and client risk
• Perform and oversee ledger postings to books of accounts, identify cash and stock breaks, and ensure timely investigation and resolution
• Identify recurring issues, manual touchpoints, and control gaps; propose process improvements and efficiency enhancements
• Support automation and change initiatives by providing functional insights, test support, and BAU validation
• Provide training, coaching, and day‑to‑day guidance to Analysts, supporting skill development and consistent execution of best practices
• Act as an operational contact for brokers, custodians, investment managers, and internal stakeholders for issue resolution and clarifications
• Collaborate effectively with Front Office, Risk, Compliance, and internal Operations teams to resolve market operations queries
• Demonstrate resilience and sound judgement while operating in a high‑volume, time‑critical environment

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in banking or investment operations, with exposure to Trade, Cash, FX, or Settlements
• Strong working knowledge of trade and forex lifecycle processes, settlement cycles, and cash flows
• Familiarity with settlement and market infrastructure platforms such as SWIFT, CLS, DTCC, Euroclear, CREST, or equivalent
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Flexibility to support North America shifts (7:30 PM or 10:30 PM IST)

Tech Stack

• Swift

Benefits

• Flexible and collaborative work culture
• Commitment to assisting the communities we serve
• Learning and development opportunities