Senior Associate - Trade support

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.

Responsibilities

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

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