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Job Description

Department Description:

Global Portfolio Services Group (GPS) provides global end to end trade processing, portfolio operations and data management services to support Invesco’s investment related activities. The group mission is to provide quality service with highly disciplined and responsive operations to support the investment life cycle, new products and instruments in a fast changing economic, regulatory and risk environment.

Job Purpose (Job Summary):
This role reports locally to the Manager of Portfolio Services in Taiwan. The incumbent will be expected to support the trade processing in Asia Pacific Markets. The candidate should be specialized in trade processing function and be prepared to develop and learn more functions, like Corporate Actions in the future.

Trade Processing: The candidate is required to work independently with minimal supervision to settle and confirm trades in an accurate and timely manner; escalate issues appropriately and resolve issues effectively and efficiently; communicate frequently with colleagues and counterparties in other global locations. The candidate should also provide recommendation and participate in automation and improvement of daily operational processes.

Corporate Actions: The candidate is required to liaise and work jointly with team members to perform corporate action activities including research and analysis of corporate events, notification of voluntary corporate events and processing corporate actions in various systems in an accurate and timely manner. The candidate should also provide recommendation and participate in automation and improvement of daily operational processes.

Pricing Operations: The candidate is required to review vendor and third-party administrator supplied prices; research and resolve pricing exceptions in a timely manner under the general supervision of the Pricing Manager.

Your Role:

• Exception processing for equity, fixed income and FX trades (unmatched trades due to various reasons) to ensure all trades are matched against brokers' confirmations via Omgeo CTM, settlement instructions are released before various deadlines to the custodians and/or the interested parties via Omgeo SN's SWIFT messaging gateway and confirmed at FMC.
• Ensure foreign exchange trades are matched for APAC clients with counterparties and sent to custodians via GTSS before various deadlines.
• Produce manual settlement instructions and fax the signed instructions to custodians, e.g., Unit Trust orders, time deposit trade instruction, Indian bonds trades, IPO free of payment trades, etc.
• Ensure the daily trade reports are sent to relevant parties accurately and timely.
• Validate End-of-Day reports for control and audit requirements. (e.g. Confirmed and Unconfirmed Trade Reports from FMC, Omgeo SN Trade Blotter, CTM Forced Matched Blotter).
• Monitor the unmatched trades and research any queries in relations to potential failed trades with custodians or brokers to avoid failed settlement and liaise with custodians/brokers to solve out the failed trades settlement.
• Provide various reports of responsible markets on a monthly basis.
• Ensure the clients' security settlement details are updated on Omgeo ALERT and notify brokers should there be any changes.
• Consolidate and liaise with different teams and vendors for the new counterparties setup in various systems.
• Liaise with counterparties for new accounts setup process for APAC equities market and Fixed Income market and FX market.
• Proactively contribute ideas and participate in continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform analysis, User Acceptance Testing and rollout support on new business requirements/projects (e.g. new instruments or new market).
• Provide support to Trading teams on day-to-day operations when called upon.
• Liaise with various internal departments (such as Trading, Data Management, IT teams) to resolve issues arises from various systems failure (e.g., CRD. ITR, Aladdin and FMC).

The Experience You Bring :

• Degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance or Business Administration (or an equivalent combi