Description
Key Responsibilities
- Creation and maintenance of Fixed Income Securities including Government, Corporate and Mortgage backed bonds as well as Structured and Derivative instruments
- Close communication with Front Office/Traders and Middle Office Teams, as well as Risk and Pricing Support and P&L teams
- Ongoing maintenance of products (eg coupon fixings, amortising/capitalising factors, redemptions and defaults)
- Performing daily reconciliations between settlements system and various trading systems.
- Dealing with settlement and trade queries from traders, Middle Office and Back Office
- Contribute to monitoring all incoming email requests and ensure all are actioned in a timely manner
- Contribute to the team's continuous process improvements to maximise efficiencies and minimise risk
- Contribute to internal/external audit mission/inspection and closure of resulting recommendations
- Contribute to IT system enhancements/bug fixes
- Promptly escalate issues/incidents identified or reported
- Identify static data weaknesses and work to resolve on a tactical and strategic basis
Basic Skills needed for the role
- A sound knowledge and understanding of financial products and attributes.
- Familiarity and use of data providers such as Bloomberg/Reuters/Telekurs/Markit
- Accuracy and good organisation skills
- Proactive, self -motivated and able to work with a minimum of supervision
- Some project involvement or mgmt experience
- Candidate must also be enthusiastic, mature, polite, and a good team player
- Solid understanding of data governance, distribution and quality management principles
- A willingness to adapt and learn additional functions