Fixed Income Trade Support Associate

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; 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 London. In this pivotal role, you will capture traders' risk and maintain strong relationships with internal teams while driving process improvements through innovative automation. The ideal candidate will possess a strong analytical mindset, proficiency in VBA, and a solid understanding of finance operations. This opportunity offers a chance to contribute to a fast-paced environment where your insights can lead to significant enhancements in trading processes and efficiencies.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical mindset with a focus on process improvement.
• Experience in the finance industry, particularly in operations 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 Mindset

Process Improvement

VBA Proficiency

Communication Skills

Finance Industry Experience

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Posted:

07.05.2025

Expiry Date:

21.06.2025

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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.