Trade Support Senior Associate

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a Trade Support Senior Associate in Bournemouth. This role entails resolving deal queries, ensuring trade bookings' accuracy, and managing business-wide projects in the FX space. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills and previous operations experience in finance. The company values diversity and offers a dynamic work environment that emphasizes collaboration and innovation.

Qualifications

• Strong logical/analytical mindset with a willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Previous experience in Finance industry (operations roles) required.
• Availability to work flexible shifts from 7 am to 6 pm.

Responsibilities

• Resolve deal queries and perform daily core controls across the FX booking stack.
• Lead business-wide project work and ensure timely trade bookings.
• Automate processes and conduct regression/UAT testing for new flows.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Process flow understanding

Communication skills

Job description

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Job Description

Welcome to the FX Cash Middle Office, your trusted partner in supporting the dynamic European Currencies FX business.

As a Trade Support Senior Associate within the Trading Services team, you'll play a pivotal role in driving excellence and innovation. You'll resolve deal queries with precision, ensure seamless trade bookings, and uphold the highest standards of risk management. Be part of transformative business projects, streamline processes for maximum efficiency, and collaborate with industry leaders to enhance our FX infrastructure.

Job responsibilities

• Resolve deal queries from Back Office and Front Office, defining root causes.
• Perform daily global core controls across the FX booking stack to ensure validity, completeness, and accuracy of risk trade bookings.
• Investigate and resolve risk breaks across both trading and internal risk-neutral Wash books.
• Manage the front-to-back-end trade booking stack to ensure trades are correctly feeding from risk to settlement in a timely manner.
• Lead business-wide project work, including major deliveries in new products, systems, and key events such as Brexit and Mifid II regulation.
• Automate and streamline core processes to increase efficiency and offer seamless support across the business.
• Oversee management of core tech deliveries and conduct regression/UAT testing for new flows/business.
• Align business and processes across global regions and tertiary hub locations.
• Create, set up, and maintain core global systems within FX infrastructure, ensuring adherence to compliance and regulatory protocols.
• Collaborate and partner with multiple internal teams to support and develop the business, including Trading, Technology, Compliance, Global Project Groups, and external trade platform vendors such as LCH, Traiana, EBS, and Reuters.
• Govern anti-trust trade practices to ensure pricing transparency and adherence to market ethical standards; interact with internal and external audits to ensure high control standards across the FX group.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong logical/analytical mindset, with the ability to think outside the box and challenge the status quo
• Process flow understanding, including ability to understand current flows and linkage between systems and think how the process can be improved/streamlined
• Previous experience in Finance industry (operations roles)
• Availability to work from 7 am to 6 pm (shifts)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.