Description
Derivatives & Agreements Analyst
Location: London, Near St Pauls
Rate: £200p/d
Start: June/July (allows for CRB and general checks to complete)
Duration: Initial 9months with potential extension
Interview Structure: 1 stage face to face interview
My high profile banking client based in London Nr St Pauls requires a Derivatives & Agreements Analyst to assistant on a 9 month contract to support their Agreements and Documentation team.
The role:
To review existing ISDA agreements and possibly Securities Lending, Repurchase Agreements and Futures Agreements/Cleared Derivatives and profile into an internal database the related Legal, Business and Credit terms contained in those documents. The employee will review agreements, identify pertinent information, accurately extract and profile data, track the status of the project in our system and assist with reporting on the progress of the project. This employee will also help aggregate and analyse large volumes of data that require reconciliation
Responsibilities:
- Review and interpret agreements
- Identify pertinent information
- Accurately extract and profile data/enter and upload agreement into contract repository
- Track status and assist with reporting.
- Aggregate and analyse large volumes of data that require reconciliation as part of controls/exception review process
- Check Dodd-Frank Good to Trade (GTT) status to ensure that the new counterparty is GTT or will be GTT once the data from MARKIT flows into the firm's system
- Coordinate signatures, Scan, fax, copy, distribute by email, mail (priority, regular), documents for execution, executed agreements and notices
- Work with offshore data quality team to answer their questions and check their work with respect to profiling terms of ISDA documentation in the firm's proprietary system
Essential skills and experience
- Experience in agreements and documentation
- Experience working in a financial services/banking environment
- Ability to complete review of a high volume of documents in a fast paced environment.
- Ability to work independently and as an integral part of the team
- Strong Excel skills
- Strong attention to detail and good writing skills
- Excellent communication, analytical and organisational skills
- Self-motivated, ability to prioritise
- Support needs-based project related work
Requirements:
- Experience with ISDA,
N.B. This particular client requires that, if you are not a British Citizen, you must hold an EU Passport, Tier 1 Visa/HSMP, Dependency Visa, or Ancestry Visa for this particular vacancy or have Permanent Residency status in the UK - please specify in your response which of these you have.
Only suitable candidates need apply. If you have not received a response within a 48 hour period, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.