Senior Trade Support Specialist – Equities & Derivatives

Testing Site - JPMC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan's Prime Finance Trading Services Team in New York is seeking a Trade Support Senior Associate to ensure trades are entered completely and accurately into risk management systems, liaising with Product Control, Sales, Settlements and other groups involved in Equity Swap trades.

The role offers exposure to global markets and cross-team collaboration, with opportunities to influence front-to-back office processes and regulatory initiatives while supporting daily trading operations.

Qualifications

• Strong security and derivative products knowledge.
• Operational experience.
• Understanding of Equity Swaps, Cash Equities, Derivative products, trading workflows.
• Experience supporting Trading Desks in Prime/Hedge Fund business.
• Advanced MS Excel skills.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Confidence to communicate with senior managers.
• Strong problem-solving and adaptability.

Responsibilities

• Performs core start-of-day and end-of-day controls to ensure Risk is correctly represented for Front Office.
• Manages daily Equity Swap/derivative trade lifecycle events (expiries, dividends, corporate actions, etc.).
• Ensures all trade capture and reporting exceptions are verified, cleared and escalated appropriately in a timely manner.
• Liaises with various other Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office Teams on issues related to Cash Equity trades.
• Performs continuous improvement of the pre and post trade controls environment.
• Maximizes trade processing STP (Straight-through processing) through tactical problem solving and root cause analysis.
• Produces analysis for the trading desks and senior management.
• Provides input into core projects including; industry-wide initiatives, regulatory, trading strategy, operational programs.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Problem solving

Stakeholder comms

Trading knowledge

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

MS Word

Risk systems

Job description

J.P. Morgan's Prime Finance Trading Services Team in New York is seeking a Trade Support Senior Associate to ensure trades are entered completely and accurately into risk management systems, liaising with Product Control, Sales, Settlements and other groups involved in Equity Swap trades.

The role offers exposure to global markets and cross-team collaboration, with opportunities to influence front-to-back office processes and regulatory initiatives while supporting daily trading operations.