Senior AVP: Fixed Income Trade Support

Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited; Hong Kong Island; On-site; HKD 400,000 - 560,000; Full time

Job summary

Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited is seeking an Associate/ VP for Fixed Income Trade Support in Hong Kong. The role focuses on ensuring accurate reflections of trades and lifecycle events in risk systems, with strong interaction across Front Office, Risk, Settlements, and Control teams.

You will monitor inquiries, support trade capture for FI strategies, and manage lifecycle events while resolving discrepancies and escalations, requiring solid knowledge of bonds, rates, and credit.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of trade support, middle office, or operations experience in a financial institution.
• Solid working knowledge of fixed income products (bonds, rates, credit).
• Experience with trade lifecycle events (expiries, cashflows, resets, rollovers).
• Experience performing daily cash, position, and trade reconciliations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to liaise with front office and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and respond to frontline requests and trade-related inquiries throughout the day.
• Support trade capture for fixed income and structured products strategies.
• Track and manage trade lifecycle events including expiries, cashflows, and corporate actions.
• Investigate and resolve booking discrepancies, P&L questions, and trade disputes.
• Escalate issues to appropriate internal teams and follow through to resolution.
• Liaise daily with frontline, risk, product control, and settlements.
• Coordinate with technology and operations on system issues or workflow gaps.
• Communicate clearly with front office on open items and priority escalations.
• Perform daily position, cash, and trade reconciliations.
• Investigate and resolve breaks between internal systems and prime broker or custodian records.
• Support settlement fail resolution and counterparty dispute management.
• Identify operational gaps and contribute to process improvement initiatives.
• Manage lifecycle events for fixed income instruments including maturities, resets, and rollovers.
• Products Covered: Total Return Swaps, Structure Notes, Interest Rate Swaps, Cross Currencies Swaps, Bonds, Repo/Reverse Repo, CDS, Options, FX

Skills

Trade support experience

Fixed income knowledge

Excel proficiency

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Data analysis

SQL

Python basic

VBA

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Economics

Tools

Excel

SQL

Python

VBA

Job description

Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited is seeking an Associate/ VP for Fixed Income Trade Support in Hong Kong. The role focuses on ensuring accurate reflections of trades and lifecycle events in risk systems, with strong interaction across Front Office, Risk, Settlements, and Control teams.

You will monitor inquiries, support trade capture for FI strategies, and manage lifecycle events while resolving discrepancies and escalations, requiring solid knowledge of bonds, rates, and credit.