Accounting Assistant (Middle Office), G6

The Accounting Assistant in the Middle Office of the Operations Section supports the management of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund's investment portfolio by ensuring accuracy and validity of trade confirmations, reconciling trades, and assisting with performance monitoring and system enhancements. The role involves communication with brokers and counterparties, quality control over trade capture, and contributing to process automation to enhance efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Scrutinizes source documents for completeness, accuracy and validity of broker confirmations.
• Investigates erroneous or unmatched trade details and takes appropriate corrective actions.
• Communicates with brokers, private fund managers and/or counterparties regarding missing documentation or any other issues related to discrepancies in trade details and amounts.
• Reconciles and reviews end-of-day trades and ensure proper clearance procedures have been followed.
• Ensures quality control over trade capture and validation in the trade order management system vis-à-vis the central trade matching system for global equities and fixed income securities.
• Ensures manual confirmation and validation of trade details for trades not enabled in the central trade matching system.
• Initiates/Prepares on-boarding of new brokers in the trade order management system and the central trade matching system.
• Consolidates and compiles data on trade volume, straight-through processing rate, manually-adjusted trades for performance monitoring.
• Prepares worksheets and assists with the preparation of key performance indicators and/or key risk indicators.
• Audits and monitors changes to various reference and static data related to investments including, but not limited to, market calendar and market fees, etc., to ensure correctness and completeness of information in the trade order management system and the central trade matching system and adherence to relevant market requirements, standards or practices.
• Contributes to the implementation and enhancements of the trade order management system and the central trade matching system used in the matching of investment transactions including user acceptance tests.
• Assists in developing and implementing process automation solutions to enhance the efficiency and control of post-trade support activities.
• Provides guidance and training to colleagues as required.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• A minimum of seven years of work experience in accounting, finance, investment operations or related area is required.
• Experience using post-trade matching platforms, such as OMGEO or equivalent is desirable.
• Experience using Bloomberg AIM, or other trade order management systems, is desirable.
• English is required at UN Level II proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Skills

• Accounting
• Finance
• Investment Operations Support
• Post-trade Matching
• OMGEO
• Bloomberg AIM
• Trade Order Management
• Trade Confirmation
• Trade Reconciliation
• Performance Monitoring
• Process Automation
• Quality Control
• Broker Communication
• Counterparty Communication

Languages

English