IRD Trade Support Middle Office

Groupecreditagricole; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Groupecreditagricole in New York is seeking a Trade Support professional within the Interest Rate Derivatives Middle Office. You will support and control trades initiated by the NY IRD Front Office, ensure accurate trade capture in FO systems, and facilitate front-to-back processing.

You will interact with internal and external stakeholders, manage life cycle events, monitor daily activity, and contribute to controls and risk management in a fast-paced, client-focused environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the transactional integrity and accuracy of positions across systems used by the IRD business line
• Investigate trade discrepancies for prompt and accurate resolution to stakeholders
• Facilitate trade modifications in FO systems as requested and relevant
• Manage and control trades’ life cycle events
• Verify modifications of discrepant trades’ impact on Risk and PnL, impacts are immediately made transparent to FO
• Transmit FO trade documents to Paris BO/MO organizational groups for final trade verification and documentation
• Maintain referential data in FO systems
• Assist in the identification, specification, and testing of system enhancements
• Provide innovative ideas to systematically update controls and procedures to reduce operational risk
• Document functions into procedures and ensure information is updated
• Escalate issues and anomalies detected
• Develop strong relationships with local and global teams
• Participate in business projects

Job description

Summary:

As a member of the Interest Rate Derivatives Trade Support Middle Office, you will be responsible to support and control the business initiated by the New York IRD Front Office. The team ensures accurate trade capture of Vanilla and Exotic derivatives in the FO systems, facilitates front to back trade processing, assist and control Trading in the management of their position and exposure, and safeguard systems by monitoring daily activity. You will have continual interaction with internal and external stakeholders that requires excellent client service skills. You will develop various skills that includes system knowledge, financial products, and market practices.

This position is based in New York and will reports to the New York Head of Interest Rate Derivatives Middle Office.

Key Responsibilities:

The IRD Trade Support MO team mitigates operational risk through its functions. In practice this means ensuring trades are captured accurately, reconciliation of trading positions, monitoring of straight through processing trades, management of life cycle events, verify accurate referential data in systems, following regulatory rules, and escalation as necessary.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Ensure the transactional integrity and accuracy of positions across systems used by the IRD business line
• Investigate trade discrepancies for prompt and accurate resolution to stakeholders
• Facilitate trade modifications in FO systems as requested and relevant
• Manage and control trades’ life cycle events
• Verify modifications of discrepant trades’ impact on Risk and PnL, impacts are immediately made transparent to FO
• Transmit FO trade documents to Paris BO/MO organizational groups for final trade verification and documentation
• Maintain referential data in FO systems
• Assist in the identification, specification, and testing of system enhancements
• Provide innovative ideas to systematically update controls and procedures to reduce operational risk
• Document functions into procedures and ensure information is updated
• Escalate issues and anomalies detected
• Develop strong relationships with local and global teams
• Participate in business projects

Others:

• Service Quality and Processes improvement:
• Propose and formalize any improvements on controls and procedures
• Develop efficiency initiatives