About The Role
We’re looking for analytical and passionate people to join our proven team as Head of Operations, based in Singapore. This role involves overseeing and optimizing operational processes related to custody and trade settlement, taking the lead on projects to enhance efficiency, and maintaining strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless operations in the financial domain.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish, manage and control operational processes across custody and trade settlement for businesses in Singapore and Malaysia.
- Managing and driving projects. The Head of Operations will lead and drive cross-functional projects and new initiatives, in addition to recurring business-as-usual (BAU) tasks.
- Lead and own key relationships with internal and external stakeholders across various functions including technology, compliance, etc.
- Oversee daily processing of trades and ensure on-time settlement of all trades (across financial products including Equity, Fixed Income, and others) - this also includes processing of Corporate Action Events and product life cycle.
- Manage post-trade settlement functions such as processing of trade instructions, ensuring instructions are communicated properly, relaying trade status back to clients and troubleshooting of trade queries and issues.
- Undertake process and system enhancements to achieve optimum productivity and process efficiency
- Ensure full compliance to all policies and regulations; manage and ensure effective service delivery to internal and external clients.
- Ensure smooth and efficient settlement and custody processes and documentation, liaising with counterparties and custodians for any trade mismatches, failures/issues to ensure fast and effective resolution.
- Lead and manage a team in a regional capacity, demonstrating strong leadership skills and fostering collaboration.
Requirement:
- At least 5 years of experience in a securities/banking-related role
- Experience working for a smaller fintech or startup is a must have as this role spans across a lot of areas and the candidate will need to deal with ambiguity
- Good knowledge of securities operations workflows, custody procedures, settlement processes
- Understanding of product parameters, policies, guidelines and regulatory requirements on domestic and global market operations
- Product knowledge of financial securities
- Experience in driving initiatives and change implementations
- Excellent interpersonal and client-servicing skills
- Effective communication skills with proficiency in writing and presentations
- Adaptable and resilient, strong problem-solving skills, and intellectually inquisitive
- Great team player, and willing to learn.
Interested candidates may send their CV to Caris (Reg No. R1109826) at [email protected] quoting the job title in the Subject line. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
