Role Summary The primary responsibility of our trade support and operations team is to maintain
a first:class operational infrastructure for the CEM trading and sales desks
and TS business to mitigate operations and financial risk 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 Specialist, 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 and 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 Responsibilities
: Maintain trading operations system
integrity for our CEM and TS Businesses
: Control the risk management
environment to ensure accurate P and L; and risk measures are available in
real:time for our trading desk
: Perform 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 and L; signoff
: Investigate and provide solutions
to various queries from settlements and confirmations, collateral and credit
disputes
: Production of Management
Statistics, including but not limited to Key Performance and Key Control
Indicators
: Complete operations projects and ad
hoc requests to satisfy new initiatives and operations/technology enhancements
: Proactive 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
Essential
Qualifications
Education
and Experience
: BA or BS degree required (Finance or Business
degree)
: Previous experience in Finance industry (Ops
roles) desired
: Proficiency with the trading environment, risk
management systems, performing critical operations controls
: Control oriented with a focus on
efficiency and process improvement
: Quick learner with a strong sense
to question and understand all details behind the processes and numbers
: Independent/analytical thinker who can quickly
assimilate situations through to the associated risks, business or control
issues
Skills
and Knowledge
: Works well under
pressure leveraging their initiative to fully develop their role
: Understanding of CEM
and TS products
: Problem solver,
proactive and able to work independently
: Strong
analytical and quantitative aptitude, very detail oriented
: Operations
and control mindset, strong ability to prioritize and deliver quality work
using time management skill
: Highly organized and self:motivated,
enthusiastic attitude
: Understands the large financial
risks that can be incurred through operational errors and control risks
: Strong PC Skills required; in
particular MS Excel (VBA a plus), MS PowerPoint and Sharepoint
: Team player with excellent
interpersonal skills
: Fluent in English and Spanish
