Senior Manager/Director - Securities Settlements - Banking & Finance

Role Overview :

We are seeking a seasoned leader to spearhead our Equity Settlements division within a premier global financial institution in Mumbai. In this high-impact role, you will oversee the end-to-end trade lifecycle, ensuring seamless settlement processes across global markets while mitigating operational risk. You will act as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders, including front-office trading desks, global custodians, and regulatory bodies, to drive operational excellence. By leading large-scale, cross-functional teams, you will champion process transformation and digital integration, directly influencing the firm's ability to scale operations and maintain market integrity in a complex, high-velocity trading environment.

Must-have skills:

- Securities Settlements - Equity Settlements: strong end-to-end ownership

- Post-Trade - Settlement Lifecycle: trade capture - matching - confirmation - settlement - fails - reconciliation

- Global Markets Operations: preferably exposure to multiple international markets

- Settlement Infrastructure: CSDs, custodians, clearing houses, settlement platforms

- Risk & Controls: operational risk, controls, governance, regulatory compliance

- STP - Automation: process automation, exception reduction, operational efficiency

- Leadership: large/global teams, senior stakeholder management, transformation ownership

- Market Infrastructure: understanding of settlement cycles, market conventions and regulatory changes

- Transformation - Digitization: process re-engineering, data/analytics, technology-led transformation

- Financial Instruments: strong understanding of equities and preferably broader securities products

Strongly preferred:

- T+1 - settlement-cycle transformation

- Custodian - CSD experience

- DTCC - Euroclear - Clearstream - CREST - local CSD exposure

- Settlement fails - penalties - buy-ins

- SWIFT - ISO 20022

- AI/ML or advanced automation in Operations

- Dashboarding - MI - data analytics

- API - system integration

- Blockchain - DLT exposure

- Global stakeholder management across EMEA/APAC/US