Senior Associate/Manager - Prime Brokerage & Client Services - Investment Bank/Custodian Bank

Primary Responsibilities:

Looking for candidate having experience in prime brokerage with client serving experience(directly interacting with clients)

Chartered Accountant or M.B.A(Full Time) from reputed Institutes.

- First point of contact for client issues as a primary account manager - oversee the client's accounts and be involved in all client issues including, but not limited to: financing, margin, trade clearing and settlement, cash management and corporate events.

- Communicate with client as secondary or back up account manager capacity to respond and resolve issues pertaining to trade clearing and settlement, cash management, asset transfers and corporate events.

- Communicate issues and ensure problems are resolved completely in a timely and accurate manner.

- Perform root cause analysis for their clients to increase STP and reduce client issues.

- Analysis of data around client balance trends and client market share.

- Ensuring client stays current by introducing latest prime brokerage technology and reporting suite to the client

- Performing activities and checks around regulatory or management checks in the area of short sales violations, analysis of cancel/ corrections of trades, aged settlements, holdings in restricted currency

- Provide services to the Hedge Fund clients in the areas of due diligence inquiries from potential investors, maintaining/checking client fee schedules and their accurate billing, account opening and closing for organic changes to Funds.

- Liaison between Fund Administrators and various teams such as swaps desk, listed derivatives, interest and finance, stock loan team to resolve inquiries.

- Solving problems by effectively influencing and utilizing resource across various teams in MS

Skills required (essential) - 

- 2 to 7 years of relevant experience in an Investment Bank or Custodian Bank with focus on capital markets and proficiency in financial products

- Chartered Accountant or M.B.A. from reputed Institutes

- Understanding capital markets and how products trade, settle and are accounted for Understanding of prime brokerage business

- Demonstration of excellent communication and relation building skills

- Exceptional organizational skills and a high degree of attention to detail

- Ability to identify and escalate issues effectively and appropriately

- Familiarity with basic accounting principles

- Generalist skill set with the ability to deal with all levels of client organization and our firm's support structure

- Ability to handle pressure, prioritize and multi-tasking during the course of a business day

- Proven ability to take ideas forward and to challenge current processes with integrity and maturity

- Strong project management skills

- Proficiency in MS Office and related applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)

- Understanding capital markets and how products trade, settle and are accounted for

- Understanding of prime brokerage business

- Demonstration of excellent communication and relation building skills

- Exceptional organizational skills and a high degree of attention to detail

- Ability to identify and escalate issues effectively and appropriately

- Familiarity with basic accounting principles

- Generalist skill set with the ability to deal with all levels of client organization and our firm's support structure

- Ability to handle pressure, prioritize and multi-tasking during the course of a business day

- Proven ability to take ideas forward and to challenge current processes with integrity and maturity

- Strong project management skills

- Proficiency in MS Office and related applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)