AVP - Equities - Investment Banking

Functional Job title: Assistant Vice President

Overview:

Company is a leading financial services group and the pre-eminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. It provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, it employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. Its unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through five business divisions: domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking, global merchant banking, and asset management.

Corporate Job title: Associate

Division: Equities

Department: Operations

Brief description of duties

Part of the team which handles the middle office function for Equity finance, Cash Prime Brokerage and Cash Equities

- Trade Support/ Desk support

- Trade amendments including margin, pricing and billing

- Inter / Intra company reconciliations and reconciling trade, position and cash

- Fails management

- Reporting including daily, weekly and monthly MIS, corporate actions

- Collateral Management

- Managing clients and counterparties

- Creating client packs

- Processing cashflows

- Risk management - Regular interactions with risk, legal and compliance teams

- Staying involved in metrics collation, trending analysis, weekly calls with the stakeholders on issues related to systems, aged breaks and enhancements, coordinating within the regions on common issues, timely escalations

What qualifications and/or skills are required for this post:

Core Skills :

- Knowledge of investment banking

- Thorough technical understanding of Equities product (vanilla and derivatives i.e. swaps)

- Core knowledge of various markets and its nuances

- Understanding of complete trade life cycle of relevant Equity products

General Competencies:

- Excellent Communication and organizational skills

- Excellent computer skills including knowledge of Microsoft Office products - Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

- Excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills