Administrator, Securities Operations (6-months contract)
Job Description
Job Description
Securities Settlement
- Process and monitor trade settlement activities for equities, fixed income, and other securities products.
- Ensure timely matching, confirmation, and settlement of transactions with custodians and counterparties.
- Investigate and resolve settlement breaks, failed trades, and discrepancies.
- Monitor settlement queues and follow up on outstanding transactions.
- Ensure all transactions are processed in accordance with market deadlines and internal procedures.
- Liaise with front office, custodians, brokers, and internal support teams for issue resolution.
Derivatives Lifecycle Management
- Support operational processing for derivatives products including options, futures, swaps, and structured products.
- Monitor lifecycle events such as expiries, exercises, resets, rate fixings, and cash settlements.
- Ensure accurate booking and maintenance of derivatives transactions within internal systems.
- Coordinate with custodians, counterparties, and internal teams on lifecycle event processing.
- Investigate and resolve operational discrepancies and trade exceptions.
- Maintain proper documentation and operational controls for derivatives activities.
Corporate Actions
- Process voluntary and mandatory corporate action events including dividends, mergers, stock splits, rights issues, and tender offers.
- Review and validate corporate action notifications received from custodians and market agents.
- Ensure timely election capture and instruction submission for client responses.
- Monitor event deadlines and ensure accurate entitlement processing.
- Reconcile corporate action proceeds and resolve discrepancies where required.
- Communicate corporate action details and operational updates to relevant stakeholders.
Asset Transfer
- Facilitate inbound and outbound asset transfers across local and international markets.
- Process delivery free and delivery versus payment (DVP) transfers accurately and within timelines.
- Coordinate with counterparties, custodians, and clients for transfer requirements and settlement instructions.
- Monitor transfer status and follow up on pending or rejected transactions.
- Ensure proper documentation and regulatory requirements are met for asset movements.
- Investigate and resolve transfer-related issues and discrepancies.
Mutual Funds Operations
- Process subscription, redemption, switch, and transfer transactions for mutual funds.
- Ensure accurate trade capture and settlement of fund transactions.
- Monitor fund order deadlines and ensure timely submission to transfer agents or platforms.
- Reconcile holdings, cash movements, and transaction records.
- Support client onboarding and maintenance activities related to mutual fund investments.
- Liaise with fund houses, transfer agents, and internal stakeholders on operational matters.
Regulatory Reporting
- Support preparation and submission of operational and regulatory reports in accordance with internal and external requirements.
- Ensure accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of reporting data.
- Maintain proper records and audit trails for regulatory reporting activities.
- Assist with data validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution related to reporting obligations.
- Support internal audits, compliance reviews, and regulatory inquiries.
- Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, operational procedures, and control standards.
Risk Awareness and Escalation
- Adherence to all control points in place
- Cash and security breaks investigation and escalation
- Demonstrate clear understanding and adherence to WM escalation protocol.
Change Management & Transformation
- Review process flows and initiate process improvements via change requests, defects
- Participate in projects, strategic initiatives and testing
Professionalism and Growth
- Demonstrate clear understanding and apply the RBC Values, cultures and leadership model in all daily dealings
- Active enrollment in courses offered by Learning & Development team and to apply knowledge gained in day to day processing
- Provide relief support and other duties assigned and cross train on all functions performed with the team and across department
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