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State Street

Holds assets for institutions and runs index funds

Financing Solutions-Secured Finance - Assistant Vice President

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 15 years of experience, with deep knowledge of repo, collateral, and settlement operations, a strong risk and control mindset, ability to manage global stakeholders, lead teams, and drive process efficiency and operational excellence.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Knowledge of repo, reverse repo, TPMG claims, FICC, settlements, sponsored member repo, and third-party repo.
  • Ability to work as a team player in a global team environment and communicate with people across organizational units.
  • Ability to provide a high standard of customer service and proactively manage work queues.
  • Ability to handle and monitor issue and query emails and promptly escalate issues to senior management.
  • Strong risk mitigation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
  • Experience in process improvement and expense reduction.
  • Experience managing teams across multiple locations or regions.
  • Ability to think critically and resolve complex problems.
  • Strategic mindset and ability to consider the organization's future.
  • Ability to navigate challenges effectively as a change agent.
  • Knowledge of repo/reverse repo or secured financing products.
  • Strong attention to detail and a control mindset.
  • Ability to manage high volumes within tight deadlines.
  • Good understanding of repo settlement flows and processing high-value payments.
  • Flexibility to work the North American shift, including 8 PM IST logins.
  • MBA or B.Com education.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other tools.

Responsibilities

  • Process repo and reverse repo transactions across confirmations, settlements, and reconciliations.
  • Validate trade economics, collateral allocations, and netted settlements with clients and counterparties.
  • Perform daily confirmations for collateral and cash providers via email.
  • Confirm netted settlements and wire instructions before execution.
  • Monitor onside and offside settlements for collateral and cash providers.
  • Track incoming and outgoing wires and ensure timely settlement execution.
  • Support triparty repo, FICC, and bilateral transactions.
  • Perform end-of-day balancing between vendor and settlement systems.
  • Validate DDA balances and ensure positions have zero discrepancies.
  • Execute FICC netting validation and exception tracking.
  • Identify and escalate settlement failures, pricing issues, or breaks.
  • Monitor failed trades and communicate with trading and management.
  • Support TMPG claims tracking and reporting.
  • Promote a risk-excellence culture and encourage openness, transparency, effective challenge, debate, and discussion within the team.
  • Establish a culture of individual and collective ownership and ensure staff understand their responsibilities and accountability.
  • Develop effective working relationships with staff at all levels and across locations.
  • Ensure staff adhere to the Code of Conduct.
  • Communicate effectively with team members from diverse backgrounds, influence and motivate the team, foster an empowering climate, and build communication networks through collaboration.
  • Adapt behavior and work methods in response to new information, changing tasks, responsibilities, people, or organizational demands while maintaining core goals and values.
  • Facilitate individual and organizational competency development by sharing expertise, providing timely feedback, and coaching and mentoring staff.
  • Track workflow queues, daily workloads, pending requests, and mailbox activity to prevent issues and delays and meet service-level, accuracy, and timeliness expectations for business-as-usual deliverables.
  • Work across groups to support client needs, improve the operating model, contribute to business-unit and transformation initiatives, deliver business and regulatory initiatives on schedule, and meet financial commitments through improved client service.
  • Identify and drive process-improvement ideas to improve process and operating-model efficiency, encourage staff to think differently, save time, and reduce risk.
  • Ensure three-tier backup and strengthen resiliency by planning split operations across both locations.
  • Assess the internal control environment and drive year-over-year improvements and enhancements, promote self-identification, and partner with global Business Controls teams.

About the Company

State Street

Holds assets for institutions and runs index funds

State Street holds and services investments for pension funds, insurers, fund companies, and other large institutions, and it also runs index funds through State Street Investment Management. It launched the first US-listed exchange-traded fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, in 1993, and in 1924 it became custodian of the first US mutual fund. As a custody bank, it safekeeps clients' stocks and bonds, completes their trades, calculates what their funds are worth, and lends their securities to other investors. It earns fees on the assets it services and manages, plus income from currency trading and from interest on client cash. State Street traces its roots to a bank chartered in 1792 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Founded
1792

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