Settlement Operations Analyst (Paço de Arcos, PT, 2770-131) na Nordea

Job ID: 29560 

We are looking for a passionate and service minded person to join our dynamic team. This is an opportunity for you to join an interesting and fast paced environment, where you will work on solving operational challenges with key stakeholders across the world.

In today’s world, change is the one thing you can count on. But whatever the future brings, our customers remain at the heart of everything we do. That’s where you come in. Working with passionate colleagues in an exciting, fast-paced environment, you’ll help meet our customers’ changing needs. We aim to be innovative and explorative in our approach to innovating better ways of delivering banking services – anytime, anywhere. This means you’ll have many opportunities to learn and grow as you build your career with us. Will you help us lead the way in creating great customer experiences?

Your future responsibilities

You’ll join the Settlement team, where we are mainly responsible for the timely settlement of trades. We foresee an increasing level of volumes and complexity over the next years, and new regulation making deadline even more crucial. Therefore we seek to continue our work with optimization and automation of our processes to ensure scalability. We are highly motivated in the post-trade space and are working on implementing new strategic initiatives surrounding the life cycle of a trade across various asset class types - in which you will play a key role.

What you’ll be doing:

• Handle daily processing of trades and ensure on-time settlement (Equity & Bonds).
• Liaise with counterparties, custodians for any failure / issues to ensure fast and effective resolution.
• Seek to continuously optimize and automate processes to ensure scalable solutions are implemented.
• Make sure changes and new procedures are documented.
• Participate in stakeholder meetings and projects as required.

The team consists of highly skilled and passionate people with various backgrounds and the role is based in Oeiras (Quinta da Fonte).

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the four key values that guide us in being at our best. We imagine that you enjoy learning and are motivated to bring your ideas to the table. You're motivated, willing to speak up – even when it's difficult – and involved in empowering others.

To do well in this role, we believe that you are:

• Service minded and have skilled problem solving abilities.
• Handle unforeseen developments with confidence and invest in your skill growth.
• Someone who works well with others and able to work in a changing environment.

Your experience and background: 

• We expect that you have +2 years’ experience within a financial industry operations function.
• Proficient written and spoken English is a requirement, as the job is in an international environment.
• You are motivated for taking initiative and to speak up.
• Meticulous, alert and good with figures & details.
• Prior use of Simcorp Dimension, CTM, ALERT and SWIFT (tieto) would be good, however this is not a prerequisite.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Please submit your application no later than 31/08/2025.

At Nordea, we recruit from the widest possible pool and hire the best person for the job. Because diversity makes us stronger. And once you are on board, you will find that we offer equal opportunities to everyone.

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