Senior Analyst - Investment Operations Securities Settlements

KKR's Credit Middle Office seeks a professional to support all aspects of securities and credit derivatives settlement.  The individual will support DTC and Euroclear settlements, physical certificates, and derivatives clearing for multiple trading platforms within the firm.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with brokers, custodians, and third-party settlement service providers to ensure timely instruction and matching of trades
• Settle trades and communicate with various parties to resolve any confirmation, matching, and settlement issues
• Monitor daily failing trades; escalating potential buy-ins and other economically impactful issues to traders and operations management
• Coordinate with front office and other support teams, locally and globally, to address trade related inquiries and issues
• Confirmation / Affirmation of cash and derivatives trades
• Coordinate with various internal teams such as Treasury, Legal, Compliance, Finance and Recon teams on settlement and other account issues as needed
• Work with operational onboarding team to ensure timely and accurately set up new accounts on internal systems and DTCC Alert
• Identify control gaps and offer solutions related to settlements and trade operations processes
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve processes and raise service level to internal clients
• Ability to manage and provide direction to third-party settlements vendors

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in securities settlements, ideally in an alternative asset management firm
• Knowledge of securities, including corporate bonds, convertible bonds, asset-backed securities, and equities
• Experience with multiple settlement methods including DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream
• Experience with DTCC products (i.e., CTM and Alert)
• Bloomberg experience
• Understanding of a trade’s lifecycle, including the responsibilities of a custodian/clearing broker vs executing broker
• Awareness of risks and controls related to T+1 Settlements
• Commercial paper, options and trade claims
• Knowledge of credit derivatives - both cleared and OTC, ISDA, short sales, and portfolio margining
• Understanding of bond repos
• Allvue Everest, Eze OMS, and Advent Geneva

Interpersonal and Business Skills

• High level attention to detail and the ability to resolve problems effectively and quickly
• Strong organizational and time management skills: Be able to take on multiple requests at once and effectively complete tasks in a time efficient manner
• Comfortable working in a deadline-driven environment that includes periodic peak periods
• Effective at managing interdependent deliverables — including those that rely on the timely output of other teams — by proactively tracking dependencies, following up, and communicating status and risks early
• Flexibility and the ability to adapt to change in a dynamic environment
• Ability to build relationships across teams
• Customer service oriented (managing internal and external clients)
• Strong work ethic with the ability to quickly grasp key concepts
• Strong written and oral communication skills

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