Equity Operations Specialist

Goodbody is a leading financial services firm, committed to serving and growing client relationships for 150 years. We are a full service, investment-led business offering wealth management, asset management, investment banking and private equity services. Our staff of over 400 work in offices across Dublin, London, Cork and Galway. We’re proud to offer prospective employees a professional, collegial work environment that encourages diversity of thought and background. Our reputation in the Irish market for putting customers first is as consistent as the company’s long-standing commitment to giving back to the communities that we work in.

The role is a great opportunity to work as part of a dynamic team providing a range of operational, administrative and clerical services to the Capital Markets Department.

Equity Operations Specialist accountabilities include:

• Ensuring that trade details are captured and processed correctly according to agreed procedures for both Equity and Fixed Income type products.
• Client contracts be processed within the allocation and confirmation sub-system.
• Give-up contracts must be communicated to prime brokers, and broker trades (including remote broker DMA/Algo Internal & External
• trades) tracked to ensure optimum settlement. 
• The successful candidate will also be required to organise and operate the stock borrowing positions of the firm. 
• Detailed knowledge of Trading System's for day to day activities and issue fixing, transaction reconciliation, ad hoc reporting, and query resolution will also be required.
• Staying up to date with market/regulatory changes effecting our business and liaising with Internal teams on implementation
• Dealing with external vendors on the services they supply into the Capital Markets Business.
• Client setup and maintenance on all relevant systems.

Qualifications and Experience:

• The ideal candidate should possess a financial industry background and be familiar with institutional client workflow and proprietary trading.
• Experience of a Trading System application is a distinct advantage. 
• Experience of the Pershing Nexus back office system is also a distinct advantage. 
• Experience of standard MS-Office tools (especially Excel) is a pre-requisite.
• Industry qualifications, whilst not essential, are an advantage.
• Third level education is not required but desirable.

Ideal Characteristics:

• This role requires the candidate to be capable of working with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency with excellent attention to detail and organisation.
• Excellent time management with the ability to work to tight deadlines and handle multiple demands.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a confident and professional demeanour.
• A highly motivated and assertive self-starter with an eagerness to learn and the capacity to work as part of a small team.
• Excellent problem solving & decision-making skills.

Goodbody is focused on helping our employees thrive, and we do this by bringing to life our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) ‘Together we prosper’. Our firm’s purpose is to create long-term prosperity, and we cannot execute on our purpose without the right talent at Goodbody. To make sure we attract and retain industry-leading, passionate and inspiring talent, we’ve built a vibrant culture based on inclusion, opportunities to grow and a commitment to ‘do the right thing’, one of our core values. We live this by offering:

• Regular employee events through our universal inclusion programme fostering a sense of belonging and celebrating differences. And an ‘always on’ approach to social, financial, mental and physical wellbeing. 
• A benefits package that includes a generous pension scheme, educational sponsorship and health insurance, along with a hybrid working model to promote better work/life balance
• Opportunities to give back through sustainability initiatives, volunteering and on-site and online meetings with our charity partners

Goodbody is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace which values and benefits from the diversity of our workforce.

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Goodbody Stockbrokers UC, trading as Goodbody, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. In the UK, Goodbody is also subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority. Goodbody is a member of Euronext Dublin and the London Stock Exchange. Goodbody is a member of the group of companies headed by AIB Group plc.