Investment Services Public Markets

Investment Services Public Markets (ISPM) is an integrated team that provides investment service support for public market investment activities strategically and tactically. The team is responsible for business management functions for all public market investment strategy groups, as well as GIC’s global trade operations, custody control and asset servicing such as income entitlements, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate events of our underlying investments, futures and derivative operations, collateral management, pricing and rates, market data and rebalancing operations. The coverage extends across a spectrum of products such as equities, bonds, money market, foreign exchange, futures, collateralized securities and other derivatives.

We are looking for a suitable candidate to join our Trade Management & Asset Servicing team as an Associate, primarily working with the trading desk and managing execution of trades and transactions from the front execution support to mid and back of settlements and life cycle events. The successful candidate will be given responsibilities in some of the functions and products listed below. Development and cross-training will be provided for the person to effectively support the trading desk.

Responsibilities

• Support the business in the trading activities of Fixed Income & Currency and Equities asset classes

• Perform trade processing of various instruments, including:

  • Cash Securities: Cash Equities, Cash Bonds, repo, collateral swaps, term loans

  • Exchange-traded Futures & Options

  • OTC Derivatives: Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default swap, Swaptions, Cross Currency Swaps, Volatility and variance swap etc

  • Foreign Exchange & Money Market instruments: FX, deposit, repos

• Ensure prompt receipt and matching of trade confirmations;

• Ensure timely settlement for all trades across the global markets. This includes ensuring sufficient funding and meeting both the internal and custodian banks’ cut-off times.

• Ensure prompt follow up on trade matching, trade confirmation, settlement, and other operational matters

• Support asset servicing functions of all investments throughout the life cycle of the trade including exercise/ assignment, novation, income collection, corporate action and credit event processing.

• Assessment for implementation of new products and markets for investment by portfolio managers.

• Work with external counterparties, brokers and service providers to resolve operational issues, and be able to assess their service levels. Ensure service level is met for all services.

• Work with external vendors (brokers, counterparties, clearers, custodian banks, industry groups) to keep track of market developments.

• Drive process improvements for productivity and quality enhancements; design solutions to integrate into processes

• Provide data management support

• Manage corporate actions and proxy voting operations

  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher

• At least 2 years of relevant experience in operations

• Inquisitive and curious, detail-oriented, strong analytical ability, excellent communication skills and possess a drive for excellence.

• Constantly keep up-to-date with industry developments, resourceful. Able to work effectively under pressure to meet tight deadlines and multiple priorities.

• A good team player, collaborates well with internal and external counterparts, self-motivated and enjoys working in a dynamic environment.

• Some experience interacting with investment professionals and traders is an added advantage, but not a pre-requisite.

  
  

Our compensation philosophy reflects several principles. We strive to provide a competitive compensation package to attract and retain talent globally. We pay for performance, and reward sustainable results.

Total pay for this position comprises base pay and bonus. The anticipated base salary range for this role is between $93,000 and $125,000.

Bonuses, which may form a meaningful proportion of the total pay package, are determined based on company and individual performance.