Fixed Income Trade Support Associate

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Fixed Income Trade Support Associate to join their dynamic Securities Trade Support team. In this role, you will capture traders' risk, maintain crucial relationships with internal teams, and drive process improvements through innovative automation. Your analytical skills will be key as you perform control reconciliations and investigate settlements, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in trading operations. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a leading financial institution that values precision and continuous improvement in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Strong logical and analytical mindset with problem-solving abilities.
• Experience in finance operations and trade support roles.

Responsibilities

• Capture trade and risk for securities, futures, and FX.
• Perform control reconciliations to verify trading positions.
• Investigate and resolve queries from settlements and clients.

Skills

Analytical Skills

VBA

Communication Skills

Process Improvement

Finance Operations Experience

Job description

Join our Securities Trade Support team as a Fixed Income Trade Support Associate, where you'll play a vital role in capturing traders' risk, maintaining close relationships with internal teams, and driving process improvements through re-engineering and automation. Be part of a dynamic environment that values precision and innovation.

As a Fixed Income Trade Support Associate within the Securities Trade Support Team, you will be responsible for capturing traders' risk, maintaining close working relationships with internal teams, performing control reconciliations to verify trade positions, investigating settlements, and focusing on process re-engineering and automation.

Job responsibilities:

• Captures trade and risk for securities, futures, and FX.
• Manages life cycle events, including trade instruction, pre-matching, and settlement.
• Performs control reconciliations to verify trading positions are accurate through front office to middle office reconciliations, and middle office to back office reconciliations.
• Investigates and provides solutions to queries from settlements, external clients, and front office.
• Produces management statistics to support decision-making.
• Completes operations projects and ad hoc requests to satisfy new initiatives and operations/technology enhancements, including new system implementations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Strong logical and analytical mindset, with the ability to think outside the box and challenge the status quo.
• Understanding of process flow, including the ability to understand current flows and linkage between systems, and think about how the process can be improved or streamlined.
• Previous experience in the finance industry in operations roles.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proficiency in VBA for process automation and improvement.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience in trade support or similar roles within the financial industry.
• Familiarity with securities, futures, and FX trading processes.

About the company

J.P. Morgan is a leader in financial services, offering solutions to clients in more than 100 countries with one of the most comprehensive global product platforms available. We have been helping our clients to do business and manage their wealth for more than 200 years. Our business has been built upon our core principle of putting our clients' interests first.