AVP, Investment Operations Specialist - Global Financial Markets Operations

About the role

Global Financial Markets Operations (GFMO) partners with DBS GFM businesses regionally to provide post-trade support, transaction life-cycle processing, asset transfers and reconciliations. It is looking for an operations professional to handle end-to-end trade processing, settlement validation, exception management and regulatory compliance across broker and custodian networks. The position is based at the DBS Asia Hub.

Key responsibilities

• Support asset transfer and corporate action processing for clients whose assets are held with a Custodian and Broker.
• Review daily exception reports and escalate reconciliation breaks and issues promptly.
• Monitor and support SLA commitments to business units, and handle customer and internal inquiries and investigations.
• Oversee monthly broker expenses, execution fee charge-outs, trade count validation and reconciliations.
• Handle monthly soft commission and rebate computation and coordinate ad hoc invoice payments to soft commission vendors.
• Execute ad hoc, weekly, monthly and yearly regulatory reporting (e.g. GSIB, exposure data collection, SFC inquiries).
• Deliver daily and monthly statements on time and reconcile statement counts to meet regulatory obligations.
• Periodically review and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Lead change and process improvement work, take part in UAT and live verification testing, and support Business Continuity Plan exercises.
• Willingness to work on Singapore public holidays as rostered and to take on ad hoc tasks.

Required profile

• 8+ years of operations experience in banking or financial services, preferably in Treasury Operations.
• Familiarity with trade lifecycles, corporate actions, asset transfers and broker/custodian statement reconciliations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail on exceptions and reconciliation breaks.
• Good understanding of regulatory reporting requirements such as SFC, exposure data collections and GSIB guidelines.
• Excellent communication skills for managing stakeholder and client inquiries.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Reconciliation and settlement validation