Middle Office Operations Analyst – Manchester

Atrium EMEA is looking for an accomplished Middle Office Operations Analyst to join the Middle Office team and support on a large platform transformation project. You will regularly interact with clients to provide consultation and resolve complex inquiries and transactions. 4 days onsite work in Manchester/ 1 day remote. PAYE/Umbrella options/ Inside IR35.
– Managing multiple custodian bank reconciliations for cash and stock across various accounting platforms.
– Providing daily and monthly reporting including positions, cash forecasting, month-end client reports, and ad hoc requests.
– Collaborating closely with global stakeholders including external custodians, brokers, and internal utilities (derivatives, corporate actions, recon support, pricing, transfer agency, fund accounting, and market FX).
– Conducts research to gather information on the most complex, multi-faceted transactions and provides answers to complex inquiries that have been escalated by lower levels.
– Responsible for or facilitating the maintenance of trade static data, trade enrichment, and trade exception handling and market claims.
– Responsible for the most complex reconciliations analysis (cash, asset, trade matching, and market value), break assignment, resolution of reconciliation breaks, and trade fails.
– Monthly end-client statement workflow, ad hoc reporting, and incident management.
– Identifies resolves and escalates any issues that affect the accuracy of the Investment Book of Record (IBOR) within the team.
– Exercises own judgement and collaborates with multiple internal and external stakeholders to resolve reconciliations of accounts for complex or atypical transactions
– Regularly interacts with clients in answering questions and resolving multifaceted inquiries for complex transactions.

Essential:

* Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
* Client services/ client engagement
* IBOR
* Liaising with clients re book of record
* Reconciliation between custodians and fund accounting team
* Resolving middle office exceptions and client queries
* Demonstrable product knowledge (Funds, Derivatives, Equities, and Fixed Income) helpful.
* Demonstrable systems knowledge (TLM, Eagle) preferred
* Demonstrable knowledge of Digital Tools (Power BI, Alteryx, UI Path) helpful.
* Experience in the securities or financial services industry.

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