Senior Analyst, Derivatives Operations | PGIM Ireland

Prudential Financial; Ballyboe Glencar; Sur place; EUR 45 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

PGIM Ireland seeks a derivative operations support professional to assist with day-to-day post-trade activities acrossFX, futures, options, swaps, and other derivatives. You will validate trades, monitor confirmations and settlements, and work with custodians and brokers to resolve routine issues.

Ideal candidates have 1–3 years in financial services, a solid grasp of derivative workflows, and strong attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or related discipline.
• 1–3 years of experience in financial services or investment operations.
• 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 escape issues appropriately.

Responsabilités

• 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, escape 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.

Connaissances

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Formation

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

Outils

Microsoft Office Suite

Aladdin

Description du poste

This role is based in Lettekrenny (on-site 2 days a week)

Overview:

The individual in this role will support PGIM Derivative Operations by assisting with day-to-day post-trade activities for derivative products, including FX, futures, options, swaps, and other cleared, bilateral, and exchange-traded instruments. This position will help validate trade activity, monitor confirmations, settlements, clearing, reconciliations, collateral and margin workflows, and resolve routine exceptions. The role requires strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and the ability to work closely with internal Operations partners, Trade Support, custodians, clearing brokers, broker-dealers, and counterparties to support accurate and timely derivative operations processing.

Primary 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, escape 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.

Requirements:

• · Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline preferred. All majors considered.
• · 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 escape issues appropriately.

PGIM Ireland is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of applicants’ gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the traveler community. PGIM Ireland’s aim is to hire the best people for the open roles and all appointments will be made on merit.

Any offer of employment made by PGIM Ireland will be contingent on receiving satisfactory references. Applicants should be aware that background checks will be carried out on all candidates offered a position within PGIM Ireland.