OTC Middle Office Analyst M/F

Crédit Agricole; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Crédit Agricole Group in Singapore is seeking an experienced professional to manage trade processing and lifecycle events for OTC derivatives, including IRS, asset swaps, caps/floors, and swaptions. You will ensure accurate trade capture, confirmation, settlement, and risk controls.

You will perform daily reconciliations, generate KPI reports, and contribute to process improvements, automation, and regulatory filings.

Responsibilities

• Process OTC derivative trades from execution through confirmation and settlement.
• Perform daily matching and pre-matching, and resolve discrepancies with counterparties.
• Ensure accurate trade capture, booking, matching, and confirmation of derivative trades.
• Monitor trades throughout the lifecycle and oversee cashflows and related events.
• Coordinate settlement instructions and resolve settlement issues, including collateral where applicable.
• Maintain audit trails and support regulatory filings.

Job description

Summary

• Trade processing and lifecycle management of OTC derivatives, including performance swaps used in synthetic ETFs.
• Reconciliation, monitoring and control frameworks for clients’ assets.

Key Responsibilities

Trade Processing:

• Process OTC derivative trades from execution through confirmation and settlement.
• Perform daily matching/pre-matching (cash, balances, confirmations, and SSIs) and resolve discrepancies with counterparties.
• Ensure accurate trade capture, booking, matching, and confirmation of derivative trades.
• Monitor trades throughout the trade lifecycle.
• Oversee cashflows, coupons and corporate actions related to swaps and associated events.
• Track and manage lifecycle events: initiation, roll, unwind, nominal increase, etc.
• Coordinate settlement instructions, manage pending issues and resolve settlement-related anomalies, including cash discrepancies and settlement issues.
• Handle collateral management and margin activities with counterparties.
• Validate operations and models in internal tools including data quality, controls, etc.
• Investigate and upscale trade breaks, static data issues, and trade discrepancies where needed.
• Follow up on incidents, contribute to their resolution and propose process improvements (reduction of breaks).
• Maintain accurate records and audit trails for all processed trades.
• Support regulatory filings.
• Products covered : IRS, asset swap, caps & floors, inflation swaps, swaptions, CC swaps and swap ETFs.

Portfolio Admin & Reporting:

• Perform daily and monthly reconciliations in ALTO covering cash, securities, OTC derivative trades, positions and cash flows against custodian records.
• Perform daily reconciliation between the futures clearer and ALTO and instruct margin movements.
• Perform account reconciliations with Fund Accountant on a daily and monthly basis.
• Follow up with custodians and the Fund Accountant on outstanding matters through to resolution.
• Provide reports to internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain and update KPIs and middle office procedures/workflows.
• Manage process improvements and automation opportunities.
• Support regulatory filings.
• Coordinate audits and regulatory inspections.
• Project management.