Job Description:

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Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview

Global Markets Operations &Middle Office provides operations support to the Global Markets Business of BAML. Key Business activities include back office and middle office operations related to securities, derivatives, futures, options, currencies (FX) and commodities. Key functions in the middle office

include trade control, product control and balance sheet management. While in the operations groups the key functions are Trade Processing & settlement, Inventory Management, Cash Management, Asset Services, Collateral Management, Reconciliation, Client & Product Data management.

Job Description

Derivatives Collateral Operations manages the margining for the OTC, Repo Derivatives & Foreign Exchange businesses and Repo agreements. Collateral Management is a tool to control & reduce the bank's credit exposure risk on Derivative trades. The Collateral Operations Unit monitors daily margining for customers across various products (Rates, Commodity, Structured Credit, Equity, Foreign Exchange, and Repo, Futures & Options). The Counterparty’s net exposure is evaluated each morning in order to determine collateral requirement. Margin Calls are made and received by Collateral Analyst and collateral exchanged. Team is also responsible to perform Security Optimization, Journal processing, liquidity and regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

· New agreement setups in margining application to facilitate daily exposure feed based on Agreement terms

· Verification of call details originating from internal applications and exchange margin call notices with clients

· Follow-up on margin calls due for payment where we do not have receipt of counterparty confirmation

· Verification of settlement instructions before releasing cash /securities as collateral

· Month end interest settlements with clients on collateral balances

· Daily reconciliation, investigation and resolution of margin call disputes/discrepancies.

· MIS, reporting of operational and trading exposures to management

· Maintenance of data in relation to points of contact internal and external and additional information necessary to effectively and efficiently resolve disputes

· Working closely together with Static data team, Settlements, Traders, and clients to ensure accurate information is updated within our processing database

· Responsible for monitoring and clearing items on the daily breaks/exception reports, Clearing aged breaks

· Generate and publish daily control reports including MTM Swings, cash/security fails, zero MTM, Stale prices, open aged calls, etc.

· Monitoring of security balances and allocating securities based on prioritization list to optimize utilization

· Responsible for placing margin calls, performing reconciliation and resolving disputes for repurchase agreements

· MIS, reporting of operational and trade exposures to management, liquidity and regulatory reporting

· Reconciliation of collateral balances for Repo, F&O and publishing breaks reports

Requirements*

Education : Graduation/PG

Certifications if any : NA

Experience Range : 8+ Years

Foundational  skills:

Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)Flexible to work in night shiftsStrong knowledge of investment banking, capital markets & Derivativeslogical and analytical skillsExcellent organizational skills are required with the ability to prioritize daily workload, work accurately and efficiently under pressureTo be flexible in their attitude and approach, and be willing to work extra hours during the week with overflow of volume and to provide cover for holidays planned and unplanned.To be able to communicate effectively, and clearly escalate queries to clients and OnshoreTeam verbally and written.

- Maintain established productivity levels as per SLA

Desired skills

Experience in OTC/Repo/F&O Derivative Collateral Management/PortfolioReconciliations/Margin ManagementKnowledge of regulations such as Dodd Frank, EMIR, CFTC, etc would be and addedadvantageMarket knowledge on Derivatives & Fixed income, recent trends and global changes

Work Timings : 06:30 AM IST - 03.30 AM IST

Job Location : Hyd