Lead - Public Market Invest Banking operations

• Candidate Expectations
• Total Experience and Relevant Experience: 4 to 12+ years
• Skills
• Public-markets workflows, trade-lifecycle, corporate-actions, collateral, IBOR/ABOR, pricing and reconciliation knowledge.
• Diversity No
• Education and Certification / Qualification: Bachelor's or Master's degree

Detailed Job Description

• Role overview
• Minimum of 4 to 12 years of experience in managing complex public-markets workflows, investigate exceptions and coordinate resolution across internal teams, custodians and operational counterparties.

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain counterparties, SSIs, portfolios, accounts and approved static data. Capture, enrich, amend and cancel trades, support matching, confirmation, settlement and daily status monitoring.
• Process routine corporate actions, margin and collateral activities, pricing feeds, reconciliations and P&L data. Maintain confirmations, settlement records, control checklists and audit evidence. Identify missing data, unmatched trades, settlement breaks, pricing exceptions or recurring processing errors and escalate within defined thresholds.
• Resolve complex trade, confirmation, position, cash, pricing and settlement breaks across listed, fixed-income and OTC instruments.
• Independently manage derivative documentation, negative affirmations, failed settlements, transaction amendments and operational claims.
• Analyse corporate-action impacts, support election processing against market deadlines and coordinate accurate downstream booking.
• Review daily collateral valuations, margin calls, eligible collateral allocation and UMR movements. Investigate pricing and P&L variances, support transaction-level explanations and ensure OTC static structures are established correctly. Perform peer reviews, coach junior analysts and contribute to SOP, control and workflow improvements. .
• Oversee delivery across onboarding, trade capture, matching, settlement, corporate actions, collateral, market data, pricing, P&L support and OTC static data.
• Set daily priorities around market deadlines, high-value or complex exceptions, failed trades, material breaks and critical corporate-action events.
• Own service-provider SLA/KPI performance, quality reviews, control evidence, issue logs and operational reporting.
• Coordinate complex escalations with CPP Investments, custodians and counterparties within approved engagement protocols.
• Review exception trends and root causes, drive SOP, workflow, automation and data-quality improvements.
• Provide technical oversight, workload management, cross-training and coaching for junior and middle-level staff.

Core Competencies

• Familiarity with listed and OTC products such as equities, fixed income, FX, money-market instruments, derivatives and securities lending.
• Exposure to Murex, SCD/SimCorp, Bloomberg, Quantum/Cash Master, CTM/GTSS or comparable trade-processing and reconciliation platforms.
• Strong trade-lifecycle, corporate-actions, collateral, IBOR/ABOR, pricing and reconciliation knowledge.
• Hands-on exposure to Murex, SCD, Bloomberg, CTM, GTSS, TradeServ, IceLink, AcadiaSoft, TriOptima, Apex/Clearstream and UDAs, as relevant.