Middle Officer - Asia Rates IDB

MAREX SPECTRON ASIA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Marex Spectron Asia Pte. Ltd. is seeking an experienced Middle Office professional to manage Asian interest rate products, focused on swaps and client interactions.

You will work autonomously and with teams to support trading flows while ensuring regulatory compliance and operational integrity. In this role you will engage with clients and internal teams, identify process efficiencies, and contribute to risk and P&L analysis.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Collaborative team player with proactive approach.
• Experience in regulated environments and knowledge of risk/compliance.

Responsibilities

• Middle Office for interest rate swaps in Asian currency products.
• Interact indirectly with clients including Banks, HFs and Real Money.
• Support processes, update clients and drive efficiency improvements.
• Collaborate with Operations and Technology to enable trading workflows.
• Analyze markets to strategize P&L improvements and risk controls.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Attention to risk/compliance

Client interaction

Job description

Role Summary

An experienced, ambitious, and proactive individual, responsible for middle office for a portfolio of Asian interest rates products.

Ability to work autonomously, and also as part of a team and be able to directly engage with clients n middle office matters. Commercial ability to maintain good relationship with clients and find new ones to bring flow. All employees are expected to understand and comply with any Sarbanes Oxley operational requirements relevant to their role.

Overall Responsibilities

Middle Office responsibilities for Interest rate swaps in particular for Asian currency products.

Indirectly corresponding with clients. Clients include Banks, HFs, Real Money.

Assisting with support processes as required by colleagues, and engaging and updating clients.

Working efficiently and supporting with making efficiencies e.g. assisting in the preparation of any new required frameworks.

Collaboration with central operations functions which support the trading role including but not limited to Operations and Technology.

Strategizing to increase P&L, requiring analysis of markets and products

Standard Responsibilities

Ensuring compliance with the company's regulatory requirements under the MAS and other relevant regulators.

Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.

Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.

At all times complying with Marex's Code of Conduct.

To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.

To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required.

To escalat risk events immediately.

To provide input to risk management processes, as required.

The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time

Competencies, Skills and Experience

Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• Demonstrates curiosity
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness

Skills and Experience

• Analytical skills
• Problem solving skills.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.

Company Values

• Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:
  Be collaborative - by working together across the organisation, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients
• Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders
• Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.
• Be respectful - how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fair in everything we do.
• Nurture talent - we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support - for ourselves and our teams.

Conduct Rules

• Act with integrity
• Act with due skill, care and diligence
• Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators (where applicable)
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
• Observe proper standard of market conduct
• Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers