Description
My client, a leading Investment Bank in London is looking for an IRD Trade support Analyst to join their team.
Responsibilities
- Management of flow of new trades and amendments from Front Office systems (MAD, STAR, MarkitWire) to Back Office system (Murex), manually booking and amending in Murex where necessary.
- Reconciliation between Front Office systems (STAR, MarkitWire) and Back Office system, checking Present Value are in line.
- Working with Middle Office P&L and confirmations teams to reduce operational risk and maintain highest levels of support for each portfolio.
- Build and maintain good working relationships with other internal clients such as legal, marketers, trading & Back Office.
- Ensure accurate and timely processing of rebooking initiatives and migrations
- Oversee all reconciliations and reports in the area and investigations are completed on a timely basis.
- Dealing with queries from Back Office, marketers and clients, relating to booking discrepancies.
- Provide cover for other members of the Trade Support team when necessary, ability to flex between teams depending on daily volume and demand.
- Management of Options (expiry report, checking confirmations, processing etc).
- Contribute to the implementation of new system functionalities and raise IT requirements for bug fixing or system enhancements when possible.
- Participate in Transversal projects.
Skills and Qualifications
- Positive and dynamic attitude to complying with deadlines and objectives.
- High degree of interest in product and process issues affecting the department.
- Effective time management and ability to prioritise workload and escalate issues to management.
- Have strong interpersonal/communication skills.
- The candidate must display a very professional attitude and be willing to work long hours if the workload is high.
Product
- Exotics Rate Derivatives
- Exotic Options
- Inflation
- BGS
- FX
- Credit hybrids
- Credit Structured