Lifecycle Associate

Unlock your potential by joining our Cash Asset Management Utility - a Payments Operations team, where you will play a pivotal role, partnering with senior management, to drive innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and contribute to a dynamic and inclusive team culture.

As a Payments Lifecycle Associate in Cash Asset Management, you will be part of a firmwide function, consisting of over 390 employees operating in 7 locations, a firmwide utility providing end-to-end cash management enabling Treasury to manage the firm's balance sheet.

You will work within the Projections Service. As a member of the Cash Projections Team the key priority is to ensure accurate and timely dialogue with Corporate.

• Handle large value transactions to the strictest of deadlines
• Identify and challenge discrepancies and anomalies to mitigate risk
• Work on continuously strive to improve knowledge of processes and procedures
• Act as a team player, able to work a rotating shift patterns with coverage between 6am and 6pm and very occasional Saturdays (day in lieu given)
• Complete escalation issues where appropriate
• Collaborate across Cash Asset Management (service leads, change teams and operations), building strong internal and firmwide stakeholder relationships to influence change
• Deliver effective communication tailored to stakeholders across the firm at all levels
• Own process enhancements to reduce manual exception processes
• Provide approval support for FINRA Series 99 requirements

• Series 99 Qualified (or to become within 6 month of start date)
• Self-motivated, highly numerate and accurate, team player with good interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills
• The ability to meet tight deadlines and handle high value payments is essential
• Good awareness of risk and control issues
• Desirable to have previous payment and/or cash management experience
• Excellent prioritisation, planning, organisational and time management skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities and to act with own initiative
• Confident in both verbal and written communication at all levels
• Takes responsibility and ownership for issues and follows through to resolution with timely and relevant communications
• Able to work comfortably and confidently under pressure and tight deadlines and is detail oriented

• Passion for continuous service improvement, creates conditions for identifying and solving process and data problems
• Financial Services background, especially in operational roles
• FINRA qualifications