International Operations Officer at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Review and reconcile the settlement of offshore equity scrip positions held at different custodians.
• Process entries to resolve reconciliation breaks. 
• Process cash payments, fees and invoices for payments as required. 
• Facilitate transfers between settlement locations, where required. 
• Monitor trades to ensure straight through processing settlement into back-office administration system. 
• Liaise with counterparty contacts, internal stakeholders and third-party service providers (where necessary) to resolve reconciliation breaks.  
• Prepare reporting on offshore cash and scrip reconciliations for management reporting. 
• Respond to queries from business regarding cash and scrip reconciliations.  
• Communicate reconciliation breaks and issues that may impact trading and client reporting to other operations divisions and business. 
• Suggest and implement process enhancements to improve efficiency.
• Participate in improvement initiatives and projects in the team, business unit and companywide as required. 
• Update and maintain process documentation (eg. standard operating procedures, checklists) for reconciliation function.   
• Assist and train other team members when required. 

Qualification and Experience

• Tertiary qualification in Business, Finance or Economics. 
• Relevant working experience in a similar role.