Senior Advisor OTC Project Reporting

National Bank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join National Bank as an OTC Project Senior Advisor in the Financial Markets Operations team. You will leverage your expertise in trade reporting and OTC products to enhance regulatory compliance and operational efficiency. This role offers opportunities for career growth and collaboration with various partners, making a significant impact on the bank's profitability and business development.

Benefits

Health and wellness program

Employee Share Ownership Plan

Employee and Family Assistance Program

Preferential banking services

Opportunities to get involved in community initiatives

Virtual sleep clinic

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years of experience in financial markets or a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of OTC derivatives (swap, options, forward).
• Excellent learning capacity and curiosity.

Responsibilities

• Work with key partners to understand regulatory needs.
• Document business rules and collaborate with development teams.
• Execute tests to validate functionality and report bugs.

Skills

Trade reporting skills

Operational experience with OTC products

Regulatory knowledge

Analytical skills

Testing skills

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Bachelor or master degree in finance, business administration, information technology

Tools

JIRA

Murex

Microsoft Excel

Job description

A career as an OTC Project Senior Advisor in the Financial Markets Operations team at National Bank is acting as specialist within OTC Project Reporting. With your trade reporting skills, your operational experience with OTC products, your knowledge of trade reporting regulatory requirements and your interest in conducting analysis and testing, you would have a positive impact on the profitability and business development of the bank.

Your role

• Work with key partners including Operations, IT and Compliance to understand regulatory needs and measure impacts on the current solution
• Contribute to developing durable solutions that help operationalize regulatory challenges
• Document business rules and collaborate with internal and external development teams to update product mappings
• Execute tests to validate the functionality, report bugs and errors to development teams and ensure no regression for production activities
• Act as an advisory support to the operational team
• Attend industry calls (DTCC, ISDA, etc.)

Your team

As part of the Financial Market Operations Project Reporting team, you’ll be on a team of 9 colleagues and you will report to the OTC Project Reporting Director. Our team stands out for its expertise in building automated solutions, execution and realization of deliverables related to transactional data reporting by collaborating with multiple key partners and by the precision and quality of our work with the different regulators.

You will play an important role in maintaining quality standards, constantly bringing ideas for efficiency, automation and process standardization.

We offer a wide range of ongoing learning opportunities for your development, including hands-on learning, training courses and collaborating with colleagues who have varied expertise and profiles.

In an environment that allows you to surpass yourself and in which we encourage internal mobility, career opportunities are numerous. To be working in this team will grant you the opportunity to establish relationships with different partners, while also developing your transversal knowledge of those different partners.

This is an evolving position and is part of a clear and determined development path that can allow you to evolve in your role and, thus, to access different levels of function and propel your career.

Prerequisites

• Bachelor or master degree in finance, business administration, information technology or any related discipline
• Minimum of three years of experience in financial markets or a similar role at a financial institution
• Strong knowledge of OTC derivatives (swap, options, forward, etc.)
• Regulatory knowledge (AMF, CFTC, SEC, etc.) on reporting derivatives to the central repository
• Good knowledge of software (JIRA, Murex, Microsoft Excel etc.)
• Excellent learning capacity and curiosity
• Be structured, organized and rigorous
• Ability to work under pressure

In addition to competitive compensation, upon hiring you’ll be eligible for a wide range of flexible benefits to help promote your wellbeing and that of your family.

• Health and wellness program, including many options
• Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Preferential banking services
• Opportunities to get involved in community initiatives
• Virtual sleep clinic

These are a few of the benefits available to you. We have an offer that keeps up with trends as well as your needs and those of your family.

Our dynamic work environments and cutting-edge collaboration tools foster a positive employee experience. We actively listen to employees’ ideas. Whether through our surveys or programs, regular feedback and ongoing communication is encouraged.

We're putting people first

We're a bank on a human scale that stands out for its courage, entrepreneurial culture, and passion for people. Our mission is to have a positive impact on peoples' lives. Our core values of partnership, agility, and empowerment inspire us, and inclusivity is central to our commitments. We offer a barrier-free workplace that is accessible to all employees.

We want our recruitment process to be fully accessible. If you require accommodation, feel free to let us know during your first conversations with us. We welcome all candidates! What can you bring to our team?