Buenos Aires, Buenos AiresThe primary responsibility of our trade support and operations team is to maintain a first-class operational infrastructure for trading and sales desks to mitigate operations and financial risk to the Global Rates business by providing a high quality control environment. Our operating model must remain flexible enough to adapt to innovation and new technology/regulatory requirements for the business, yet scalable enough to sustain a rigorous controls environment. As a Trade Support Analyst, your job function will include performing end-to-end controls along the trade lifecycle from trade execution and capture including analysis and verification of trade positions and valuations as well as timely and accurate monitoring of daily processes. The role will also include reconciling positions and trade details between various risk management systems and upstream execution platforms as well as investigating and resolving trade or system issues. Additional tasks include trade booking/verification, P&L explanations, stress testing, MIS reporting, query management/resolution and various ad hoc project related tasks such as new regulatory and compliance mandates. The environment is fast paced and has a very high trade turnover so adaptability and the ability to multi-task are critical. As this is a middle office role, you will be communicating with a wide variety of areas critical to supporting the business including Trading, Sales, Business Management and Finance, Operations, Technology and Market/Credit risk teams.Key ResponsibilitiesMaintain trading operations system integrity for our global Rates trading businessControl the risk management environment to ensure accurate P&L and risk measures are available in real-time for our trading deskPerform numerous control reconciliations to verify trading positions are accurate through front office to middle office recs, middle office to back office recs including EOD checkouts and P&L signoffInvestigate and provide solutions to various queries from settlements and confirmations, collateral and credit disputesProduction of Management Statistics, including but not limited to Key Performance and Key Control IndicatorsComplete operations projects and ad hoc requests to satisfy new initiatives and operations/technology enhancementsProactive in identifying issues/gaps and opportunities for new process improvements, taking appropriate actions to deliver simple and innovative solutions that improve the way we do business
Required skills
Extremely detail oriented
Self starting team player
Analytical and quantitative aptitude
Change Management: Adaptability to learn new tasks and demonstrate a willingness to understand the detail of a process.
Control focused
Understanding of the transaction flow: Ability to look at the overall process and explain it to others
Time Management: Organization and prioritization of tasks, setting own deadlines and working to defined targets
Technical skills: The daily tasks will involve using several applications as well as the standard desktop so must have an aptitude for this
The specific experience necessary for this position is:
FX, Derivatives & Securities knowledge of products is a plus
Basic accounting knowledge is required
Proficiency and prior process trading, calculating, reporting, and analyzing daily Profit&Loss statement experience is required
Self-motivation and demonstration of initiative
Excellent Analytical skills
Excellent oral and written communication presentation skills
Highly organized
Extremely detailed orientated
Control orientated
Keen to question everything and understand the detail behind the numbers and/or process
BA or BS degree is necessary
Excel(Must), Word and PowerPoint
