Associate Director/Senior Manager - Middle Office Operations - Asset Services

- MBA (Finance) / CFA / CA or any another equivalent qualification with 12-18 years of work experience in the areas of transaction and security master management with a detailed understanding of the various stages of the trade life-cycle.

- Accountable for work product of the team - daily transaction and security master management across different asset classes, reference data management and asset servicing for multiple clients.

- Play key role from Middle Office perspective in onboarding clients on platform - Scoping, integrating with client's OMS and establishing workflows.

- Oversee day-to-day operations and resources, escalation management, business-as-usual troubleshooting and setting direction and goals for individuals

- Working with the Senior Management team in NY and locally to define and execute on strategic initiatives, new automations, project prioritizations, managing client relationships & client budgets

- Working with technology teams as needed, by assisting in special projects, developing bespoke reports, developing specifications, product implementation and UAT

- Providing assistance to auditors and fund administrators during the audit process

- Drive discussions with investment managers, client-ops team, data vendors to resolve day-to-day exceptions, as well as develop more strategic initiatives

- Liaise with other internal functions like pricing and trade accounting to resolve discrepancies and/correspond to internal queries

- Assist the team and play a review role for security mapping of complex asset classes