
Assistant Manager Securities Settlements
Job Description
•Drives and enhance a customer focused culture throughout the team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
•Ensure operational efficiency of Corporate Actions is maintained at a high level in accordance with approved policy and procedures by; organizing, prioritizing, and supervising workflows, accurate processing of Mandatory corporate Actions such as Stock Splits, reverse splits, Name change etc, checking/authorizing various components of events as assigned; monitoring outstanding payments due from depositories/issuers/financial institutions.
•Assisting in the implementation of new processes/ systems as required; identifying challenges and pursuing opportunities to improve processing efficiency; solving problems of an unusual nature including identifying the root cause of the problem and what is required to prevent a recurrence.
Ensure a high level of customer service is provided to all business lines by ensuring that all transactions are completed in an accurate and timely manner.
•Ensuring effective procedural and management controls in place are follows. Ensure the team is following escalation procedures for any potential losses; challenging/reviewing existing procedures to ensure adequate controls are implemented.
•Provide ongoing assistance to the department manager by reviewing and ensuring the control accounts are updated and or cleared daily to avoid outstanding items from getting aged. Train and cross-train other team members when required and providing support with each other’s functions with volumes and projects and perform any ad hoc functions/sundry duties.
•Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
•Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.