Trading Services - Analyst

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Trading Services Analyst to enhance trade accuracy and drive innovation. This role involves performing critical reconciliations, investigating settlements, and collaborating with teams to implement new technologies. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and a keen understanding of process flows, ready to challenge the status quo. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will significantly impact operational efficiency and foster a culture of continuous improvement. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about finance and technology, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with a focus on process improvement.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Perform control reconciliations to verify trade positions.
• Investigate settlements and provide solutions to queries.
• Engage in process re-engineering and automation initiatives.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Process flow understanding

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Ability to adapt to changing priorities

Job description

Join our team as a Trading Services Analyst, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy of trade positions and settlements. This is an exciting opportunity to engage in process re-engineering and automation, driving efficiency and innovation.

As a Trading Services Analyst within Trading Servicing Team, you will be responsible for performing control reconciliations to verify trade positions, investigating settlements, and focusing on process re-engineering and automation. You will work closely with various teams to ensure seamless operations and contribute to new initiatives and technology enhancements.

Job responsibilities :

• Uploads market data to different risk management systems.
• Performs reconciliations against market sources.
• Conducts numerous 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 various queries from settlements and confirmations.
• Produces management statistics.
• 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/analytical mindset, with the ability to think outside the box and challenge the status quo.
• Process flow understanding, including the ability to understand current flows and linkage between systems and think about how the process can be improved/streamlined.
• Availability to work from 10 am to 8 pm.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills :

• Experience in process re-engineering and automation.
• Previous experience in the finance industry (operations roles).
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work under tight deadlines.