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As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
SS&C Technologies seek an experienced trade support individual, to be located on our trading desk in London. You will have extensive experience working on a trading desk alongside traders. We require an individual with a keen eye for detail, and a full appreciation of the risks involved in post trade processes, whereby timely resolution of pre-settlement issues is essential given the growing regulatory rules and regulations in the post trade ecosystem. Client satisfaction is an absolute priority in our trading team, and a core pillar in our branding. Therefore, it is a key requirement that the individual for this role will have the same approach, joining a team that takes pride in earning our clients’ trust and confidence.
About SS&C Technologies
SS&C Wealth & Investment Technologies is a leading provider of award-winning technology and services for the investment management industry worldwide. Our 5000+ clients across 50+ countries include asset managers, wealth managers, family offices, alternative investment managers, fund administrators, brokers, banks, and insurance. Our solutions streamline their processes for portfolio management, trading and order management, compliance, accounting, performance analytics, reporting and more.
This is a unique opportunity to blend financial industry knowledge with technology skills, in a vibrant, international work environment. You get to tap into the knowledge of leading financial institutions as well as our experienced team, to learn and develop skills that will ultimately help you progress your career and grow a solid network within the fin-tech industry.
At SS&C, you will find a rewarding career where you can thrive at every level. We are proud of our unique business culture, founded on the passion of our people, dedicated to the success of our clients. As a company, we reward innovation and professionalism, and support personal development. We invest in our employees through offering competitive compensation and benefits, comprehensive training opportunities, and employee programs to promote a healthy work-life balance and personal well-being. Our culture thrives on teamwork and diversity. Therefore, we hope to see you bring your unique perspective and talent to SS&C and thrive!
Responsibilities
- Be the main contact for incoming queries from clients with trade booking queries.
- Face off against all our street-side counterparties to solve all checking queries.
- Maintain all client commission, and street brokerage tables in the middle office layer in our OMS
- Manage client confirmations within the middle office layer in our OMS
- Ensure all FIX/XML trading files are dropped successfully for all trading time zones.
- Ensure above files match with trade counts on the OMS
- Be the central point of contact with our settlements department
- Solve any mismatches by working with our trading team, and amend bookings as required
- Add new clients and counterparties to our systems and assist with FIX line certifications.
- Be responsible for our trade reporting, working with TradEcho to ensure accuracy.
- Work with transaction reporting teams to ensure daily files are sent and consumed.
- Restricted securities management in the OMS
- Contract input using our in-house systems, booking splits or aggregated bookings
- Ensure OMS new releases are successful
Experience, Skills & Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the same role, on a sell side trading desk
- Strong knowledge of all trading methods, including DMA and OTC trade bookings.
- Full understanding of buy-in rules, and idiosyncrasies of each country we trade in.
- Full understanding of protocols for all settlement locations, and in particular the ETF market.
- Ability to build relationships internally and externally as a trusted and reliable individual.
- To ‘own’ problems and seek absolute closure for any client issues.
- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- High level of integrity and ethical standards.
SS&C quality
All employees are accountable for the delivery of a Quality service, driving for excellence in all their work activities:
- To be quality driven, aiming for 100% accuracy and timeliness of delivery.
- To effectively plan the way services are delivered so that all activity is directly related to providing quality services and meeting the expectations of the customer.
- To continuously review processes and practices relating to the role and act as a catalyst for change and improvement in individual and team performance.
- To observe proper standards of market, business, and personal conduct, demonstrating integrity in the execution of duties.
- To communicate and promote the values which reinforce and support a consistent quality culture.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a diverse workforce in the widest sense.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from head-hunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
Background Checks
All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks, including 5-year employment history, proof of eligibility to work in the hiring location, proof of address, credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law). The accuracy of all information you submit as part of your application is vital and may be used as part of the background-checking process should you be successful.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
