Derivatives Post-Trade Operations Analyst

Prudential Ins Co of America; Letterkenny; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Annual Leave 23 days

Pension Scheme

Annual Bonus Programme & Shop LK V"ou

Life Assurance

Education Assistance

Job summary

PGIM Ireland is hiring for a Derivative Operations Support role in Letterkenny to assist day-to-day post-trade activities across FX, futures, options, swaps, and other instruments. You will validate trades, monitor confirmations, settlements, and reconciliations while collaborating with internal teams and external counterparties.

The position emphasizes attention to detail, analytical skills, and the ability to resolve routine operational issues within a controlled environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline preferred.
• 1-3 years of experience in financial services, investment operations, trade support, confirmations, settlements, collateral management, or a related operations function.
• Exposure to derivative products such as swaps, futures, options, FX forwards, cleared derivatives, or bilateral OTC instruments preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite; experience with Aladdin or other investment operations platforms a plus.
• Basic understanding of derivative confirmations, clearing, settlement, collateral, margin, or reconciliation processes a plus.
• Ability to work with internal teams, custodians, clearing brokers, broker-dealers, counterparties, or fund administrators to resolve operational issues.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, and ability to investigate exceptions, reconcile breaks, and raise issues appropriately.

Responsibilities

• Support daily post-trade processing for derivative products, including trade validation, confirmations, settlements, clearing, lifecycle events, and exception follow-up.
• Assist with maintaining derivative trade activity in Aladdin and related platforms to support accurate books and records, positions, and operational data.
• Monitor derivative settlements, collateral movements, margin activity, cash interest, and related payment workflows under established procedures and controls.
• Perform daily reconciliations with brokers, clearing brokers, custodians, and internal systems to identify and elevate trade, cash, position, and commission breaks.
• Partner with internal teams and external parties to research and resolve routine operational exceptions, settlement issues, collateral inquiries, and trade lifecycle questions.
• Follow documented procedures, complete daily checklists, raise issues timely, and support control, audit, and risk management activities as needed.
• Prepare recurring operational reporting related to derivative activity, reconciliations, exceptions, and processing metrics.
• Contribute to process improvement efforts by identifying manual tasks, recurring issues, and opportunities to improve workflow efficiency.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business/Economics

Tools

Aladdin

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

PGIM Ireland is hiring for a Derivative Operations Support role in Letterkenny to assist day-to-day post-trade activities across FX, futures, options, swaps, and other instruments. You will validate trades, monitor confirmations, settlements, and reconciliations while collaborating with internal teams and external counterparties.

The position emphasizes attention to detail, analytical skills, and the ability to resolve routine operational issues within a controlled environment.