Avp Of Operations Confirmation

Malaysia, Malaysia

Job Description

Job description

Business: Global Banking and Markets

Open Positions: 01

Role Title AVP of Operations - Confirmation

GCB:5

Location: Malaysia

Recruiter: Rebecca Choo

Why join us?

Role Purpose

This positions lies within Confirmation Service in Global Market Operations. The AVP role would be to lead a team of highly motivated and affluent individuals, whose function is to process all Outbound and Incoming Confirmations tasks across the Interest Rates Derivatives, FX Options and Equity Derivatives business, focusing and ensuring the timely confirmation retrieval within the EMIR and DFA requirements.

The AVP will need to ensure Group standards (F.I.M.) are adhered to at all times and Best Practice Guidelines are followed wherever possible to ensure our Regulatory targets.

What you 'll do?

Principal Accountabilities: Key activities and decision making areas

Impact on the Business/Function

  • Work closely with the Global teams to ensure confirmation retrieval is within Regulatory time lines.
  • Build relationships between onshore and offshore teams to increase efficiencies and to create best practice.
  • To work closely with Onshore business partners ensuring a high standard of communication maintained between teams.
  • Active involvement in industry and market initiatives
  • Fully support all Departmental projects and user testing
  • Continuously evaluate existing processes, challenging current procedures and suggesting enhancements as appropriate, in order to improve the Customer Service Proposition and increase levels of efficiency and STP at all levels and enhance controls
  • Continuously re-assess the operational risks inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures, management
  • Active involvement in working groups by gathering feedback from end users and providing input to the business on platform and design enhancements
  • Maintains HSBC internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators
Typical Targets and Measures
  • No outstanding confirmation
T+1/T+2 business days. * 100% PLA achieved
  • 100% Compliance with DIM's & FIM
  • Ops Losses & errors.
  • Timely and accurate escalations as per escalation matrix
Customers / Stakeholders
  • Problem situations are proactively identified, resolved and escalated to give maximum customer satisfaction. Appropriate measures are taken to improve quality and prevent recurrence.
  • Customer issues are handled sensitively and receive full consideration. Situations are resolved effectively retaining goodwill of customer.
  • Customers are kept fully informed of progress.
  • Periodical MI submitted accurately and in line with customer and business needs.
  • Updates and procedural changes obtained and cascaded / recorded.
  • Enhance systems and business knowledge relating to customers / processes and cascade to teams.
Typical Targets and Measures
  • Attend Client Service training
  • Positive feedback from internal/external clients
  • Nil adverse feedback from internal/external clients
All client correspondences are attended to within the Client Service Model guidelines

Leadership & Teamwork
  • Motivate and develop team/subordinate to meet business objectives.
  • Create robust team environment where skills and knowledge openly shared to achieve team and business goals.
  • Teams are regularly briefed and trained on any developmentsChanges.
  • Knowledge and experience are shared with teams, providing assistance on referred / technical issues.
  • Advice and guidance is given in a constructive manner and positively.
  • Be aware of issues within teams and resolve or escalate in appropriate and timely manner.
  • Share knowledge, best practice and experience with colleagues at all levels to ensure they achieve their goals and business objectives.
  • Identify strength / weakness of teams in order to develop them.
  • Ensure structured training plans are followed through for all new joiners. Create training packs and deliver training whenever required.
Typical Targets and Measures
  • Attend soft skills training to develop leadership capabilities
  • Facilitate continuous learning through job rotation
  • Conduct daily buzz sessions
  • Attend manager meetings
Operational Effectiveness & Control
  • Effectively manage implementation of reporting tools and guidelines for all processes, identifying and escalating issues for resolution as appropriate.
  • Create and design reporting templates and tools for Operations Team.
  • Work is organised and completed within agreed timescales, in accordance with procedures, PLA & FIM.
  • Work is distributed / duties allocated between individuals in accordance with their experience / ability.
  • Productivity and quality of work are monitored and achieved.
  • Issues / problems are fully analysed and resolved or escalated. Appropriate action is taken to prevent recurrence.
  • Procedural changes / new initiatives are fully communicated to and implemented.
  • Encourage and monitor team member to consistently maintain a high level of customer service.
  • Ensure effective workflow management in order to meet timelines. And quality levels, checking and maintaining effective resource utilisation at all times.
  • Contribute to contingency planning for the teams / sections.
Typical Targets and Measures
  • Nil compliance, regulatory, FIM, SOX breaches
  • Nil audit findings (internal / external) of any risk level
  • Nil repeated findings during group audits or BRCM review
  • Ensure all mandatory trainings are completed
Major Challenges
  • Queue Management between Confirmations processes.
  • Exception management & Prioritization.
  • Pro-actively review and identify knowledge/control gaps within process and take necessary action to mitigate risks.
  • Thorough review of procedures/controls to be conducted periodically.
  • Facilitate training of new hires or cross-training for other colleagues.
  • Job holder is required to keep abreast of changes/happenings across all regions and communicate the same to team members.
  • Job holder is responsible for ensuring that quality checks are performed. Identify areas of concern for processing team and produce specific training requirements to ensure any internal / external errors can be minimized.
Role Context
  • Role will be located in Bangalore and will cover primarily the Rates Derivatives and Equity Derivatives Incoming Confirmation process.
  • The jobholder will have people responsibility.
  • The jobholder will be responsible of managing the day-to-day operations during the assigned work hours.
  • Role will include supervisory authority such as DTP & Confirmation release. COAST approvals. The job holder is required to ensure that the functions are completed on a daily basis where required.
  • Jobholder will be required to work closely with the existing AMO/MO in the team to ensure BAU functions are carried out accordingly within the stipulated Performance Level Agreement (PLA).
Management of Risk

The jobholder will also continually reassess the operational risks associated with the role and inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices, management restructurings, and the impact of new technology.

This will be achieved by ensuring all actions take account of the likelihood of operational risk occurring.

Also by addressing any areas of concern in conjunction with line management and/or the appropriate department.

Observation of Internal Controls

The jobholder will also adhere to and be able to demonstrate adherence to internal controls. This will be achieved by adherence to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records and, where appropriate, by the timely implementation of internal and external audit points, including issues raised by external regulators.

The jobholder will implement the Group compliance policy by containing compliance risk in liaison with Global Head of Compliance, Global Compliance Officer, Area Compliance Officer or Local Compliance Officer. The term 'compliance' embraces all relevant financial services laws, rules and codes with which the business has to comply.

This will be achieved by adhering to all relevant processes/procedures and by liaising with Compliance department about new business initiatives at the earliest opportunity. Also and when applicable, by ensuring adequate resources are in place and training is provided, fostering a compliance culture and optimising relations with regulators.

Role Dimensions

Requirements

What you will need to succeed in this role?

Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications

Knowledge
  • Experience in Derivatives (Rates Derivatives or Equity Derivatives) operations would be an advantage
  • A degree in accounting/finance/management/business administration. Higher qualification not a bar provided aspirations commensurate with the position.
Experience
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience in Derivative Ops/Market Ops. Experience in Confirmations processes would be an added advantage.
Skills
  • Ability to speak and understand English fluently.
  • Ability to write business letters and reports
  • Good conversational/telephone skills
  • Ability to learn quickly and transfer knowledge appropriately
  • Possess knowledge on MS Office with good numerical and analytical skills.
  • Flexibility to work shifts.
  • Ability to build rapport with and relate to and effectively develop a wide range of people.
  • Ability to maintain focus while working with voluminous data
  • Ability to multi task
  • Good Communication, planning and organizing skills.
  • Good initiation of improvements. Open to Change.
  • Able to work under challenging environment with tight timelines.
You'll achieve more at HSBC

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role."

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD867573
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Education
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