Analyst Operations - Toronto, Canada - BMO Financial Group

BMO Financial Group

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

100 King Street West Toronto Ontario,M5X 1A1

Work Schedule:
Monday to Friday from 9-9:30am to 5-5:30pm

Under the direction of the Manager, CMG Repo Margin and Portfolio Reconciliation, of the Collateral Management Group (CMG), the Associate, Reconciliations is responsible for ensuring that the terms of the collateral agreements that the Bank enters into, in connection with its over-the-counter derivatives business and with its Repo/ Reverse Repo business, are met, and that the Bank's policies, procedures and guidelines, in connection with margin call dispute resolution and proactive reconciliation, are followed in an efficient and effective manner.

This role may also have specific functional accountability, or area of specialization, in process management:

_ Role Responsibilities_
Responsible for investigating, resolving and escalating collateral disputes that exceed internal tolerance levels or regulatory thresholds in accordance with established dispute resolution procedures. This activity includes reconciling portfolio valuation differences with the Bank's counterparties and providing detailed analysis of the cause of a dispute to appropriate areas in accordance with established procedures.
Responsible for proactive reconciliation. This activity includes working with Valuation Product Control (VPC) in investigating and reconciling portfolio marktomarket (MtM) differences with identified counterparties and escalating differences in accordance with established procedures.
With assistance from VPC, follow through and complete investigations for trades that have been identified as having valuation differences that have breached prescribed tolerance levels, as set out in the Bank's Policies and Procedures (P&Ps) as well as in the Capital Markets Financing Guideline (CFMG) for OTC Derivatives and Repo/ Reverse Repo Financing Guideline.
Reconcile collateral positions in the Calypso collateral management database against BMO's bookofrecord systems such as ICI and IBUK to ensure accuracy.
Analyze and produce collateral management reports for key client groups on a daily, weekly, monthly and on ad hoc basis.
Understand regulatory compliance in regards to Dodd Frank Act (DFA) and Europe Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
Understand regulatory and compliance requirements as prescribed for CMG, such as Financing Guidelines and the Bank's Policies and Procedures, and provide recommendations and implement actions to ensure adherence, as required.
Adhere to project industry standards, best practices and requirements and ensure they are followed and assessed against current practices and policies.

- _ Risk & Control_

Identify potential risk situations within the scope of work (e.g., risk assessments), make recommendations and/or escalate to the manager, where appropriate, and ensure contingency plans exist.
Understand risks inherent in area(s) of expertise and take appropriate actions, including accuracy and safeguarding of all documentation and any other requirements to ensure operational integrity is maintained within the business.
Understand UMR IM SIMM model basics (bucket, factors etc)
Contribute to the management of risk and minimize losses through monitoring and controlling various reports and taking appropriate action, ensuring compliance requirements, audits and verifications are completed in accordance with Bank P&Ps, e.g. Financing Guidelines and BMO Portfolio Reconciliation Policies and Procedures.

- _ Reconciliation Operations_

Represent CMG Reconciliation Team during change impact analysis and business requirements gathering, implementation planning and support, and issue escalation. This may include working with relevant stakeholders to ensure policies and procedures are followed to meet regulatory compliance.
Provide assistance to review new and/or revised CMG Reconciliation Team projects and initiatives, and liaise with other business units such as VPC, back office, Line of Business (LOB), Regulatory Transformation Office (RTO),, Credit Risk, and the Derivatives Legal Group (DLG) and external systems providers to ensure business interests are represented and understood.
Review, assess and recommend business readiness situations for new product introductions and feasibility of internal and external systems.
Provide coaching and cross training to other staff from time to time.
May coordinate and/or implement test plans, test cases, training strategy development, training plans, parallel test strategy and plans, test documentation/ test specifications.

- _ Product & Process Management_

Act as SME to translate business objectives into plans that can be implemented for small initiatives, including process redesign to compliment the change management/ product support strategy for CMG Reconciliation Team, adhering to and maintaining established standards and practices; represent technical business needs and requirements in the introduction of