Team Leader - Reconciliation - BFS

Major Duties

People management

- Conducting regular one to one meetings to provide timely feedback to all the Direct Reports.

- Conducting performance appraisals.

- Team motivation and engagement.

- Should be responsible for work allocation to the team members.

- Guiding the team members in their career growth.

- Ensuring all team member's concerns are addressed in a timely manner.

- Appropriate planning of time-offs for the team.

- Should be able to generate efficiencies within the team and effective utilization of resources.

Process Management

The process involves the reconciliation of transactions, security positions, and cash activities. Account type includes but not limited to:

- Equity

- Fixed Income

- OTC products like swaps, CFDs, etc.

- Derivative products like futures and options etc.

- Bank, etc.

- Taking ownership of all the deliverables being sent out by the team with proper review checks.

- Ensuring back-ups are in place for a smoother process flow in case of absences in the team.

- Cross-training the team on all the activities in order to ensure business continuity.

- Analyze security and cash positions to identify discrepancies between customer's positions and counterparty with good troubleshooting skills.

- Should have the ability to maintain various MIS reports and should ensure timely completion of all the MIS and other ad-hoc reports to be submitted to management.

- Liaising effectively with team members, internal groups, and external counterparties to resolve discrepancies in a timely and efficient manner.

- Should be able to handle critical queries/issues and escalate in a timely manner.

- Ensuring deliverables are adhered to as per agreed SLAs by helping team members in resolving their queries and issues.

- Daily reviews to ensure the process is in adherence with SOPs and the same are updated as required.

- Should be capable of adding and reviewing various control checks.

- Understand and minimize risks associated with breaks and trade mismatches.

- Understanding the settlement of cash flows associated with various financial instruments.

- Issue escalation and resolution in a timely manner.

- Respond quickly and accurately to queries in a high volume, time-sensitive trading environment.

- Prioritize time accordingly to action trade breaks by timelines.

- Developing action plans for resolution of outstanding issues.

- Ability to work on ad-hoc activities.

- Consistently look to streamline and automate the reporting/analytical process with the use of technology