• August 01, 2023

1. What is the name of your profession (position)? Head of the back office of a stock company, Specialist of the depositary department. 2. What is your job and what are your responsibilities? My job is to ensure uninterrupted document flow in the enterprise. Any stock company is engaged in the purchase and sale of securities. In pursuance of transactions, contracts for the sale of securities are concluded. Proper execution of these documents, their timely signing, implementation is my main task. I also correspond with regulatory authorities: the State Commission for the Central Bank, the State Committee for Financial Monitoring. My duties include monitoring all changes in the legislation in the field of working with securities, ensuring compliance with the requirements of all legislative acts (license conditions, Rules of Securities Traders). My responsibilities also include preparing and sending reports of the Securities Trader and the Custodian of Securities. My job is also to control the daily deliveries and payments for securities, issuing securities, accepting them from counterparties through the depository system, keeping transaction logs in the Merchant and Custodian, sending irregular reports of the Merchant and Custodian on the date of occurrence. Also, my duties include control over the identification of clients, sending them mine and correspondence with the financial monitoring committee, informing them about transactions that may be related to money laundering. 3. What education is required to get your position? For Ukraine, higher economic or higher legal. Plus, you need to get a certificate in prof. Activities. To get a certificate, you need to study for 2 weeks at an accredited institute and pass an exam, which consists of tests and an interview. There are certificates: for trading in securities, for depository activities, for asset management, for the administration of non-state pension funds. 4. Describe your working day. The working day is very often irregular. But it all depends on the state of the market. The market is “dead” now, so the working day is shortened. In general, the working day begins at 9. All work begins with the fact that the accountant and the custodian give me statements with movements on accounts: settlement and securities. I spend the day: I note all payments and deliveries in the transaction log, identify debtors, call them and find out when payments and deliveries will be, adjust my data accordingly. Calling those who owe money today. Then I check the logged trades, print out the list, and start producing them. I make contracts, send them to counterparties by email. Mail, I follow the signing, I check whether all the transactions are a cat. Should happen today signed. I expose and accept securities for transactions in the depositary system, send registers, enter all transactions in the Custodian's journal. Based on the results of all transactions performed for the previous day, I form a list of transactions closed,I fill in all transactions closed in the reporting system, check and send by e-mail to the State Commission and the stock exchange. Of course, mail, faxes, negotiations, calling clients, etc. are added to all this. and so on. 5. How comfortable are your working conditions (all day outside, or in the office with a cup of coffee)? Working conditions are very comfortable, I work in the office. With people and documentation at the same time. Business trips periodically to courses or seminars. 6. What do you like most about your job? Oddly enough, but I like the frantic pace of work, when you need to do a lot of things and spin like a squirrel in a wheel, I also like the opportunity to communicate with a large number of people, agree on something, make new acquaintances and friends. I also like the fact that in our field you can make a good career, because. very narrow specialization and there are not enough such specialists (well, of course, not in times of crisis, when non-residents withdrew all the money from the Ukrainian stock market). 7. What do you dislike most about your job? That the job depends on the market. That is, the market is growing - and you are on a horse. The market is falling or standing, and you don't know what will happen next. A very large dependence on fluctuations and the world economy as a whole and on political upheavals in the country. 8. If it's not a secret, what is your salary level (is it enough to write whether you are satisfied or not)? Now in times of crisis it does not suit, but in any case it helps to keep afloat. In normal times, yes quite satisfied. And compared to other areas, the level is quite high. 9. Describe your team, what kind of people work with you? Since the company is small, few people work with me. 7 people, in capital companies, of course, much more, but still within 50-100 people. All people with higher educations, smart and fans of their work, without this good fanaticism in our business is impossible. The team is very well-coordinated, we know each other for a long time. Therefore, we understand each other perfectly. 10. What human qualities do you think are most important in your business? I consider the most important quick reaction, good memory, non-conflict, the ability to find a common language with many people, the ability to learn and teach. 11. Work gives me additional opportunities (everything that work gives you except money, from self-expression and communication with interesting people to the opportunity to visit different countries). First of all, it stimulates self-improvement: the study of foreign languages, the study of legislation. I also acquire in the process of work the connections I need, I can then consult with these people, I can ask them for something. Of course, this is an opportunity to meet new people first of all. 12. Do you have the opportunity to evaluate your work on a five-point scale, what grade would you give? Five for sure, I love my job. 13. Why did you choose this job? I got it all by accident. When I got a job, I did not know where I was going, and I started from the bottom. I'm just lucky it all came together. In general, all myThe best qualities are best suited for this job. 14. What do you think we did not include in the plan and what else would you like to share with us? It seems to me that the question of who should not do this work is missing. I would answer that those who are not able to quickly perceive information, make decisions in stressful situations, work hard and people with poor memory. 0