Job Description

We have a great opportunity assisting and leading all elements of the Investment Transaction Management (ITM) team process including trade settlement and payments. This position ensures a high standard of support and delivery to various Swiss Re trading desks (Asset Management, Treasury including Legacy, FMI, ECM/Weather, ILS and Direct Investments).

About the Role

The ITM Analyst performs day to day activities of the ITM Team as it relates to all Asset Management (AM), and non-AM, related securities and cash flows. Interactions with custodians and brokers as well as reconciliations support are proximate to the role.

This role entails full comprehension of end-to-end workflow; including but not limited to trade creation, position creation, confirmation, settlement, payment & life cycle maintenance as well as contextual understanding of system landscape and corresponding ledger entries in non-IBOR systems/applications. In addition, this position places a significant emphasis on Ad-hoc projects to support innovations and systems enhancements within AM COO.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing all areas of the ITM team process, with primarily focus on Securities Lending, Treasury and Public Markets as part of a larger team, and independently.
• Support timely execution of transactions including bonds and equities settlement, ILS processing and execution of payments for different kind of financial products (mainly OTC derivatives) and manual entry of structured Bespoke transactions.
• Ensure E2E monitoring and exception resolution of transactions, including but not limited to transaction bookings, trade amendments, confirmation, pre-matching, settlement, regulatory reporting and post settlement activities.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements is implemented within daily processes and business continuity and that proper escalation hierarchy is followed.

• Ensure solid awareness, prevention and communications of operational risk.
• Close collaboration with all internal stakeholders and external service providers; including with IT teams to interpret clear business requirement and test solutions.

• Full control and supervision of payments/settlements/corporate actions for Asset Management, confirmations with external parties and support post-settlement reconciliation.
• Request and confirm standard settlement instruction setup across AM system landscape; perform root cause analysis of any operational break/inefficiency and propose solution.
• Technical support and analysis for current IBOR systems and auxiliary applications and applicable after-hours support relating to the Data Integrity function of Client Readiness Solutions
• Implement change within the team while adhering to current RCSA's along with creating new controls when necessary to support our growing business lines.

• Impact change across the AM Landscape; promote, direct and foster innovation and change from both a macro & micro level.

About the Team

The  Investment Transaction Management  team sits in the Asset Management arm of Swiss Re. We are a team of dynamic professionals who support and strengthen our Global team of multiple internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure proper trade representation, guide documentation to completion, and oversee the regulatory reporting process among the different jurisdictions that Swiss Re operates in. 

About You:

You thrive under pressure and are well organized with the discipline to support multiple priorities and tasks. You bring excellent written and verbal communication skills, and exceptional interpersonal skills enabling cross-functional success within and across teams as well as with internal and external stakeholders across multiple business units, regions and management levels.

Additional Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education in the area of Asset Management/ Finance
• 1-5 years relevant working experience in the area of financial markets
• Working knowledge of Aladdin, Hiport and Bloomberg preferred
• Strong Product knowledge of Government bonds, Corporates, Equities, Futures. Derivatives, Private Debt, Private Equity and Direct Real Estate
• Analytical skills and conceptual thinking
• Project management experience
• English language fluent written and spoken      
• Very good knowledge of MS Office (e.g. Excel, Word, Power Point)

Some travel may be required.

Key Competencies for success in this role include:

• Integrity
• Analytical
• Flexibility
• Client Service          
• Leadership and Relationship Development       
• Planning and Organization           
• Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing
• Proactivity
• Continuous Improvement!

For New York City the estimated base salary range for this position is $74,000 to $120,000.  The specific salary offered for this or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget.  At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.

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