Trade Support Specialist - Investment Bank

Job title Trade Support Specialist

Functional skills

Understanding of:

- Corporate & Investment banking business.

- Capital Markets Fixed Income market

- Financial instruments (Bonds, Money Markets, Derivatives, FX)

- Regulation (UK, EU & U.S)

Experience in transaction reporting and Trade Repository exception management & surveillance monitoring.

Required Skills:

- Analytical and process improvement mindset

- Strong inter-personal skills:

- Confident communicator able to adapt style to Front Office and offshore colleagues

- Demonstrate strong teamwork and values mindset

- Thrive on working in fast paced environment while maintaining attention to detail

- Fast learner with the ability to think out of the box and provide solutions

- Knowledge of Murex, UnaVista & DTCC preferable.

SFTR requirements - training will be provided initially and on an ongoing basis

- SFTR reporting lead from a Regulatory Back Office perspective, Perform BAU, testing when required and remediate exception reporting and be primary point of contact.

- Own query remediation, trade life-cycling and other day-to-day processing, ensuring timely escalation, to minimise risk.

- Understand the Repo & Collateral trade lifecycle from front to back and be the go-to person for SFTR processing and reporting.

- Pairing & Matching

- Reconciliation

- Face of Operations to Global Markets London Sales - primary point of contact:

- SFTR post execution processing / queries, represent Operations functions

- Build team profile with the Front Office

- Quickly learn products and processes and add value to SFTR reporting and exception management.

- Build a strong understanding of current rules and anticipation of upcoming additional SFTR regulation.

UK, EU & U.S reporting requirements

- Have experience of transaction reporting preferably of the following Dodd Frank, EMIR,TRACE, MiFID II Manage/filter data in Excel to monitor pre agreed exceptions and anomalies.

- General market knowledge and understanding of financial products, how they are traded and end to end operational processes

- Good financial services experience including understanding of the regulatory environment

- Strong communication skills - verbal and written.

- Fully competent in the use of MS Office applications.

- Liaise with London compliance team to resolve identified issues.

Trade & Sales Support

- Provide daily support to London Sales and Trading desks

- Developing and improving reconciliations Front Office/Back Office(FOBO)

- Knowledge of Coupon payments and investigation of claims

- Confident to liaise with Sales and Trading colleagues

Products

- Euro-Bonds

- ZAR Government Bonds

- Corporate Bonds

- Interest Rate Swaps

- FX Derivatives

- FX Forwards

Systems

- Murex

- Trade Repositories: UnaVista, DTCC

- Bloomberg (IB Chat and MTF)

- Trade Web SEF/MTF

- Markitwire