Back-office Operations Officers

Our client, a large financial services firm, is currently hiring for a back-office operations officers to join their team in Montreal, QC! They are an asset servicing banking group dedicated to asset managers, insurance companies, pension funds, banks, private equity and real estate funds, brokers, and corporate clients.

These roles are 100% onsite positions.

Operations Officer – Custody (Contract to hire)
· This team has different shifts to handle pending settlements, email management, and repairing trade instructions
· Open to new university graduates who studied Business, Commerce, Finance, or Economics.
· Knowledge of SWIFT messages related to settlement and corporate actions is important for the custody services teams
· At a high level, the settlements team is a back office operations team, which means 70-80% of this role repeatable/process/task-driven work. 20-30% of the work is more analysis driven
· 6+ months of financial services experience within a back-office setting, completing trade settlements (back office / trade management)
· Securities knowledge (Could be from CSC and/or banking industry experience)
· Excel (Pivot tables, Chart manipulation, Basic Formulas)

Sr. Bilingual (French-English) Operations Officer (Permanent role)
· This Senior Operations officer role falls under the Corporate Actions/Settlements (Transversal) – Client Facing Group.
· The successful candidate will be responsible for full-cycle corporate actions (Payments, Elections, Deposits, Announcements, etc) and settlements
· Monitor and whenever necessary repair or release instructions transiting through our dedicated settlement tool at Custodian level (Globe)
· Investigate nonmatching and failing trade instructions and take the appropriate actions to ensure settlement of transactions
· 3+ years of Corporate Actions & Settlements experience across global markets (North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, etc). (i.e., Expert knowledge of all corporate actions events, swift messages, etc.)
· Proficient with MS Suite and strong written and verbal communication skills

Sr. Operations Officer – Corporate Actions Payments (Permanent role)
· This Senior Operations officer role falls under the Corporate Actions Payments Team
· Handle corporate action event payments to client accounts (shareholders)
· Make sure shareholders receive payments on time, process it for them, and that they initiate swift payment message. Swift payments need to be tracked until they hit cash account of the client and reconciled.
· 3+ years of Corporate Actions Experience (With Corp actions payments experience specifically) across global markets (North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, etc). (i.e., Expert knowledge of all corporate actions events, swift messages, etc.)
· Proficient with MS Suite and strong written and verbal communication skills