Senior Associate - Trade Support– Product Control
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Position Purpose
The FTP team validates the trade details captured in the front office trading and/or back office platforms
against supporting documents/confirmations as well as Ensure that trades dealt through third party platform are processed with no trades pending. Individual is responsible for performing trade amendments affecting cash.
The resource will need to work in partnership with our clients, sales and trading to ensure that trades are allocated, confirmed, and processed in a timely manner. Provide support to our front office equities trading desks and also act as a point of contact for internal front/back-office enquiries.
Direct Responsibilities
• A comprehensive understanding of securities
• Front to back trade lifecycle experience
• Demonstrate awareness and procedures to mitigate operational risk, escalate appropriately
• Trade amendments and booking reversals of trades
• Liaison between Front Office and all supporting functions
• Work in partnership with our clients, sales and trading to ensure that trades are allocated, confirmed, and processed in a timely manner
• Provide support for front office equities trading desks.
• Work closely with technical teams to improve trader experience.
• Focused work with zero tolerance controls and strict deadlines.
• Ability to build good relationship within the team and Front Office trading and management
• Strong appreciation and value of STP and of IT solutions to reduce processing and improve controls
• Ability to multitask, to be flexible re tasks and accommodate varying levels of volume and complexity without deterioration in task quality
• Act as point of contact for internal middle/back-office enquiries.
Contributing Responsibilities
•Direct relationships with the front office / back office colleagues.
•Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the globe in Front, Back and Middle Office
•Strong working and open relationship with local management
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
• At least Two years in an operational support position.
• IB Equity Operations experience preferred, essentially in Trade Support functions
• Experience working within algorithmic trading highly beneficial.
• Competency with MS Suite, especially Excel, and the ability to learn multiple programs quickly
• High level of product knowledge in Equities
• High level of knowledge of middle office and back office systems
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize
• Innovative - constantly identifying gaps in process and to seek improvements
• Ethics and Control must have good work ethics and risk / control mind set.
• Communications ability to communicate effectively within the team and Front Office
• Collaboration ability to work well with others especially in day to day resolution and escalation of issues
Specific Qualifications (if required)
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Ability to share / pass on knowledge
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Ability to develop and adapt a process
Ability to develop and leverage networks
Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
