Description
The Reference Data & SSI Operations Analyst is responsible for managing, validating, and maintaining high-quality strategic data across the organisation's systems.
This role ensures data accuracy for regulatory compliance and business operations, handles the end-to-end setup of Standard Settlement Instructions (SSIs), and collaborates with key stakeholders to support long-term data efficiency and risk management.
Your key responsibilities
- Process data input and approval of Standard Settlement Instructions in downstream systems.
- Ensure processing guidelines (KOP) are followed with diligence.
- Monitor mailboxes for processing and queries.
- Participate in employee engagement activities and contribute to team huddles and regular meetings.
- Complete mandatory training courses within the required timeframe.
- Plan leaves and breaks in line with process deliverables, ensuring timely updates on HR-Workday.
- Meet productivity targets of 100%, ensuring 2-eye processing is completed within agreed SLA and 100% accuracy.
Change
- Identify possible automation opportunities and reduce manual intervention.
- Work towards finding process gaps and ideas to remediate them.
Your skills and experience
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
- 0.6 to 3 years of work experience in corporate banking.
- Basic knowledge of banking operations/financial products (fixed income cash and derivatives financial products and financial instruments, including futures, options, swaps).
- Microsoft Office/Suite proficient (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
- Good communication skills, with interaction with Middle Office and/or clients to ensure timely and accurate processing of all life cycle events.
- Ability to work well and adapt to change in a fast-paced environment.
- Ensure all work is delivered, meeting agreed production standards and SLA timeframes, and be responsible for all process-related MI reports.
- Keep team management informed of the status of cases and proactively identify and flag issues.
- Create EOD (log reports) for transactions processed daily, ensuring EOD controls.
- Follow APAC work hours (9 AM - 6 PM, M-F).
- Able to work under pressure and against challenging timescales.
What we’ll offer you
- Competitive salary
- Attractive retirement benefit
- Medical and life insurance upon employment
- 20 days annual vacation leaves
How we’ll support you
- Training and development to help you excel in your career.
- Coaching and support from experts in your team.
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.