Wells Fargo is seeking for a Senior Institutional Investment Operations Representative in Derivatives Settlements

About this role:

Settlements is the final step in the lifecycle of a Derivatives transaction. Team will be responsible for confirming Settlements with counterparties, analyze & reconcile accounts every day, the breaks with Middle Office & Front office groups and escalate the issues to the management.

In this role, you will:

• Support the team working on Derivative Settlements
• Providing support to Derivative clients across Rates, equities, credit, and commodity products
• Identify and recommend opportunities for process improvement and risk control development.
• Collaborate with all business partners and various departments, create efficiencies, and mitigate risk for team and organization
• Make daily supervisory decisions for team of analysts and resolve issues related to team supervision, work allocation, and daily operations
• Leverage interpretation of policies, procedures, and compliance requirements
• Lead the team to achieve objectives and strategy
• Supervise confirmation of payments, processing of daily settlements as well as providing support to external and internal clients
• Organizes the work of the team, assigns task, sets short-term priorities, monitors all activities, and ensures timely and accurate completion of the work
• Understands needs and sensitivities of internal and external clients and proactively ensures these are met
• Partner with Technology to identify/resolve system issues and implement system enhancements to increase efficiency
• Proactive in identifying potential issues, handling the same and escalating issues to Senior Mgt. in a timely manner
• Participate by leading & driving Organization wide initiatives within CIB
• Drive learning Initiatives, Adherence to discipline, punctuality & compliance by the team and manage attrition

Required Qualifications:

• MBA or an advanced degree (or equivalent exp.)
• Experience of 5 to 7 years in OTC Derivative Settlements domain which includes Pre-Confirmation, Post Confirmation, Reset advise and Clearing Settlements
• Understanding about current Regulations and their impact on OTC market & settlements function
• Ability to effectively communicate (written/verbal)
• Ability to plan and organize workload within tight deadlines and meeting day-to-day objectives.

• Should have good understanding of Derivative Rates, Equity, credit and commodity products
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to build strong partnership with business stakeholders and other support functions
• Strong organizational and project management skills with demonstrated ability to manage expectations and deliver on commitments
• Understanding about current Regulations and their impact on OTC market & settlements function
• Strong knowledge of market settlement processes like Clearstream, Euroclear and LCH etc.
• Perform process improvement and redesign - proactively identify, analyze and improve existing processes including leading process reengineering initiatives.
• Should be competent in leading & managing transition of processes from other locations
• Strong knowledge of US, European and Asian market settlement processes
• Ability to effectively communicate (written/verbal)
• Willing to work in US shifts
  

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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