Middle Office Analyst

Peel Hunt; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a Middle Office Analyst to support trading activities. The role involves trade booking, validation, and lifecycle management across asset classes, requiring strong organisational skills and experience with Fidessa. This opportunity is ideal for candidates with a background in trade support aiming to advance their careers.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of trade workflows and processes.
• Proactive and task-oriented approach.
• Demonstrated experience in multi-tasking and managing workloads.

Responsibilities

• Complete time sensitive, market-related tasks before market open.
• Book and amend trades on the Fidessa platform.
• Monitor trade matching and troubleshoot queries.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Numerical skills

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Experience in trade support

Experience using Fidessa

Tools

Fidessa

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

ROLE SUMMARY AND DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:

The Middle Office function provides trade management, trading reporting & control and trading system support management and Investment Banking (“IB”) activities of Peel Hunt LLP and Peel Hunt Inc.

We are seeking a highly motivated Middle Office Analyst to join our team. This role will be a key part of the team that supports trading activities by ensuring accurate and timely trade booking, validation and lifecycle management across a range of asset classes. Working closely with our Traders in Execution Services, the Analyst will utilise Fidessa to monitor and process trade flow, resolve booking issues and liaise with internal teams, and external clients to ensure operational efficiency and compliance.

This role requires strong attention to detail, a solid understanding of trade workflows, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced trading environment. Being a strong team player with the ability to build strong and effective working relationships with team members and broader stakeholders is essential.

This role may suit a candidate who has some experience in trade support and who is looking to continue to build their experience and in Middle Office. Experience using Fidessa is highly desirable.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Completing time sensitive, market-related, tasks ahead of market open
• Booking and amending trades on the Fidessa platform
• Monitoring CTM and Traiana Harmony trade matching
• Fielding telephone and email queries from external parties
• Troubleshooting systematic and regulatory queries from internal parties
• Managing static data records within FDM (Fidessa’s Data Manager)
• Involvement in the IPO and secondary placing processes
• Registration of new market making stocks
• Monitoring and rectifying exceptions within the trading system including failures
• Production of statistics for management reporting
• Review and investigation of daily Best Execution exceptions
• Completion of daily controls, exceptions and outliers analysis reporting
• Oversight of individual user market data subscriptions and associated costs
• Supporting team members as and when required.
• Actively supporting team projects and contributing towards team goals.
  
  

Key Capabilities and Knowledge:

• Previous experience in trade support and using Fidessa essential
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong verbal and numerical skills
• Proactive, self-motivated with a task-orientated approach
• Demonstrable experience in multi-tasking and prioritising heavy and varied workloads.
• Confident with Microsoft Office applications, in particular Excel & Word
• Ability to work well within a team
• Strong communicator and able to build effective working relationships
  
  

Role Competencies:

• Assessing & Interpreting risk
• Commercial Awareness
• Detail Orientation
• Problem Solving
• Technical Expertise
  
  

This role will be required to work a shift pattern to cover core market hours.