Operations Associate

A French Investment Bank are currently seeking an Operations Associate / Officer to join their Operations department in an initial 12-month contract. The Operations department is responsible for all Back Office processes and controls.

About the role

You will monitor the transactions, process the different events during the trade lifecycle, and liaise with the different counterparties for settlement issues. You will also be responsible for maintaining the adequate operational procedures.

Key Responsibilities

Processing of deal tickets, confirmations and associated payments

Processing of the refinancing instruments in the Bank’s core system, i.e: CALYPSO. These transactions include issuance of bonds and covered bonds, issuance of Certificates of Deposits, interbank deposits, intragroup loans and borrowings, IRS, CIRS, FX Spot, Forward and FX Swaps:

• Confirmations and matching,
• Payments and Settlements (in particular via SWIFT, ensuring cut-off times are respected and monitoring receipt of funds),
• Ensuring matching of settlement instructions
• Reconciliation and payment of brokers invoices
• Management of corporate actions
• Invoices payments

Daily short-term Funding requirement management

• Calculation of the internal funding requirement and input of related trades into BLOFI
• Cash management of the Branch Nostro accounts

Reconciliation of the Bank’s Nostro accounts

• Checking payments and receipts recorded in the Bank’s ledgers against the entries provided by the Bank’s correspondents via Swift Statement messages.

Reconciliation BO vs accounting regarding P&L calculation

About the candidate

• Capital Market product knowledge
• Back-Office experience in a financial institution
• Knowledge of capital market operations from a back-office perspective (loans and deposits, bonds, CDs, Hedging derivative transactions: IRS, CIRS, FX).