Assistant Manager, Operational Support, Market Operations Jobs at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Job Overview

Assistant Manager, Operational Support, Market Operations

Role Profile

The Assistant Manager of the Operational Support team is primarily responsible for ensuring the automation of early morning checks, adaptation to system changes and make the process is efficient. The assistant manager will be responsible for running the day-to-day activities for the Operational Support team based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The role will also include the development of framework, processes, future automation, and oversight of the Operational Support team members based in Sri Lanka.

Team description

The team works primarily to cover the 8:00 London hours based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.  It is responsible for the first line of checks for a range of markets, admissions, client and technical activities, systems connectivity and front ends ahead are able to validate with less time through an, automated process by the markets start time.  The Operational Support team is part of the overall Client and Market Services organisational structure.

Department Description

Market Operations covers Service Delivery, Business Architecture and Client Services. The Service Delivery team provide the centralised function for the maintenance of key trading services and reference data databases spanning the LSE, Turquoise, and Refinitiv FX venues. The department acts as a first point of contact for customers (both issuers and member firms) requiring immediate or planned actions, assessing suitability for admission of issuers and impacts of corporate actions on reference data. It coordinates the production and dissemination of communications to customers and key organisations including EUI, CCPs, UKLA and FTSE. The area manages close operational relationships internally and externally.,

Key Responsibilities

• To act as the main liaison between management (based in London) and the team members (based in Colombo).

• To coordinate the training of members of staff and act as a role model.
• To assist management with any ad hoc change requests, as required.
• Be the first contact person to accept system / design changes who connects the delivery teams.
• Conduct the proper analysis with application teams to understand the change & scope check and plan automation path accordingly.
• Make sure the check is effective, appropriate, necessary and added to reporting.
• Share details on a timely manner with the operational support team and other project teams.
• Ensure to if check automation procedures artifacts are updated.
• Decide automation scope for confirmed checks & work with the project teams for implementation.
• Helping the project manager with automation prioritisation and be the central point for interaction with other application support teams.
• Assuring timely testing of new automations.
• Communicate automation testing progress, planning, blockers, and alternatives to the Market Operations leadership and Business Architecture team.
• Work with Ops RUN team to improve checks and improve automation scope.
• Share status weekly and monthly intervals per application on the CHANGE progress and status & plan.
• Perform scrutiny on proposed checks to evaluate effectiveness and also identify automation progress path for the same.

• Manage the employee life cycle of team members and ensure adherence to people processes and policies.

• To coordinate all Operational Support activities, so that these are performed efficiently and effectively.

• To perform several proactive, confirmatory checks across a range of markets and tools to ensure that all the systems in scope are healthy and ready for the business day.

• To perform proactive customer alert management and event logging to help ensure appropriate levels of service quality are consistently and predictably delivered.

Key Behaviours

Integrity

• Has the sustained drive and energy to deliver support service to the required level of timeliness and quality.

• Willingly makes the effort to ensure activities are completed on time and to the quality required.

Partnership

• Makes use of project management methodologies (e.g.: schedules of work; progress reports etc.)

• Deals with conflict successfully.

• Seeks information/inputs from colleagues/clients.

Innovation

• Willingly adopts new processes/approaches/ways of working.

Excellence

• Oral and written communications are tailored to their audience’s needs.

• Proactive and demonstrates initiative.

• Prioritises activities according to business and operational needs.

• Analysis and problem solving.

• Analyses issues to identify the most appropriate solutions.

• Utilises all available resources and toolsets to investigate and resolve problems.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills

• Operational Support industry experience and recent experience in a similar role for 4 to 5 years.

• Knowledge of FIX protocol, Networking, Wireshark, SFTP, electronic trading systems, market data will be an advantage.
• PL/SQL Development is required & Snowflakes experience is added advantage.
• Java / Java Script experience
• AWS Development experience
• Control-m tool experience is added advantage.
• Experience is any automation tool & framework is an added advantage.

• Recent experience in a similar technical customer service role supporting financial clients.

• Must be a confident team player with good interpersonal skills and a ‘can do’ attitude.

• Worked in professional and client-focused environments, where detailed processes must be followed.

• Proven customer service skills.

• Accurate with attention to detail.

• Must be able to work to deadlines and under pressure.

• Knowledge of equities and debt instructions and associated corporate events would be advantageous.

• Ability to learn quickly.

• Experience in managing staff/teams.

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Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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