IRD Trade Support Middle Office

Crédit Agricole SA; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Crédit Agricole CIB, New York location, seeks a Trade Support MO professional for the Interest Rate Derivatives desk. You will ensure accurate capture of vanilla and exotic trades, support front-to-back processing, and monitor controls to mitigate operational risk. Collaboration with Front, Middle, and Back offices is essential.

The role reports to the NY Head of IRD Middle Office, with a focus on maintaining data integrity, regulatory compliance, and efficient trade lifecycle management.

Qualifications

• Previous IRD MO experience is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field.
• Strong analytical and risk awareness.
• Excellent communication and client service.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Ensure transactional integrity of IRD positions across MO systems.
• Investigate trade discrepancies and resolve with stakeholders.
• Manage lifecycle events and trade modifications in FO systems.
• Transmit FO trade documents to Paris BO/MO and maintain referential data.
• Escalate issues and drive process improvements.

Skills

Rigour & organisation

Autonomy

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Operational risk awareness

Work under pressure

Education

Bachelor's degree / BSc

Finance MO exposure

Tools

IT tools

Excel macros & VBA

Analytical ability

Job description

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

Supplementary Information

Compliance and Governance:

• Ensure compliance with CA CIB CMO [Head Office] and CACIB NY governance and organization directives
• Promote operational controls and segregation of duties

Control and awareness:

• Exert vigilance to unusual or inappropriate (i.e. unusual, un-economic, fraudulent) trading practices
• Alert management and position control team in case of suspicion of inappropriate (i.e. unusual, un-economic or fraudulent) trading practices or operations

Legal and Regulatory Responsibilities:

• Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, including, but not limited to, the Local Compliance manual and Compliance policies and procedures as issued from time to time; Financial Security requirements, including, but not limited to, the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud including reporting obligations to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer
• Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure to be fully qualified to undertake the role. Complete all mandatory training as required to attain and maintain competence

Management and Reporting:

Reports to the Head of IRD Trade Support MO

Key Internal contacts:

Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Processing Support, Control and Reconciliation Middle offices, IT, referential teams, risk and market activity monitoring teams, audit teams and internal control

Key External contacts:

Clients, Interbanks, broker/dealers

Salary Range:$100k-$120k

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Geographical area

America, United States Of America

City

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Degree in finance or previous experience in a MO functions

Level of minimal experience

3-5 years

Experience

Experience Essential:

Previous experience in IRD MO

Required skills

• Rigour and sense of organization.
• Autonomy.
• Capacity to cooperate / Ability to work across disciplines
• Ability to analyze and summarize
  Good relationship and ability to communicate clearly and easily
• Sensitivity to operational risk
• Ability to work under pressure

Technical skills required

Technical Skills Essential:

• Comfortable with IT tools
• Comfortable with excel functions, macros and visual basic
• High technical and analytical ability

Technical Skills Desired:

• VBA, Macros
• French is a plus

Entity

About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB)

Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment bank of the Crédit Agricole group, the 10th largest banking group in the world *.

We support major companies and financial institutions in their development and the financing of their projects.

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Joining our teams means working in a multicultural environment, both dynamic and stimulating, where you will contribute to developing a sustainable economy.

We support employees throughout their journey: you will develop your skills and access various mobility opportunities among the diversity of our businesses in more than 30 international locations.

Our culture is built on collaboration, innovation and openness, where everyone is valued and empowered.

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