**Your background**
- Strong communication skills - be able to express information and ideas clearly and accurately
- Ability to set priorities and manage multiple tasks effectively
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and maintain accuracy
- Strong focus and attention to detail
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with internal clients
- Willingness to build on and improve client service levels
- Ability to work at a fast pace in a demanding environment
- Willingness to work flexible hours when necessary
- Equity Settlements experience preferred
- Prior experience with custody settlement systems and/or CHESS
- Prior experience with reconciliations
- Microsoft Outlook, Excel
- Be control and risk focused
- Ensure all tasks completed in timely and efficient manner
- Professional communication with brokers ,internal, external clients, team members, registries & Chess
- Ensure all work is done within audit, compliance and procedural requirements
- Group/team focus, assist others where required to ensure group tasks completed by cut offs
**Other qualifications**
- Strives to bring new thoughts and ideas to teams in order to drive innovation and unique solutions
- Excels in working among diverse viewpoints to determine the best path forward
- Experience in connecting with a diverse set of clients to understand future business needs - is a continuous learner
- Commitment to challenging the status quo and promoting positive change.
- Participate in and drive collaborative efforts to advance tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve an evolving client base
- Believes in value of diversity so we can reflect, connect and meet the diverse needs of our clients and employees around the world
**What you can expect**
This is an opportunity to join the Custody Settlements area within the Equities Operations Team. A busy and challenging position this opportunity is ideal for a dedicated team player who has excellent communication skills.
**What you will do**
- Pre-match and facilitate settlement of external counterparty instructions in Chess
- Pre-match and facilitate settlement of instructions for internal movements between custodian and broker and across clients housed under the custodian.
- Follow through queries and issues from Clients and Client service reps
- Follow up and escalate on failing or unmatched trades
- Reconcile internal general ledgers for funding across internal counterparties
- Prepare daily funding requirements between custodian and underlying client
- Assist to close internal stock and cash movements for end of day completeness
- Cross train in all settlement functions including Off Market & DVP settlements, funding and daily reconciliations
**About Bank of America**
Our purpose as a firm is to make financial lives better, through the power of every connection. Across the world, we partner with leading corporate and institutional investors through our offices in more than 35 countries. In the U.S. alone, we serve almost all of the Fortune 500 companies and approximately 67 million consumer and small-business clients. We provide a full suite of financial products and services, from banking and investments to asset and risk management. We cover a broad range of asset classes, making us a global leader in corporate and investment banking, sales and trading.
**Connecting Asia Pacific to the world**
Our Asia Pacific team is spread across 19 cities in 12 markets. We are focused on connecting Asia to the world and the world to Asia, using our global expertise to ensure success is shared between us, our clients and our communities. Our regional footprint covers 12 currencies, more than a dozen languages and five time zones, placing us firmly among the region's leading financial services companies.
**Job Band**:
H6
**Shift**:
**Hours Per Week**:
38
**Weekly Schedule**:
**Referral Bonus Amount**:
0