Officer Trade Support

Absa Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 400 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking an individual for the Trade Support role within the Post Trade Services team. The candidate will handle trade allocations, confirmations, and customer support, ensuring accurate processing and reconciliation of trades. A higher diploma in Business or related fields is required, along with experience in stockbroking and BDA processing. This role involves maintaining excellent relationships with clients and traders to ensure smooth operations.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Trade Support and Settlements or general stockbroking market.
• Experience with Corporate Actions BDA processing.

Responsibilities

• Receive and process allocation instructions for executed trades.
• Capture trade confirmations via matching engines.
• Liaise with client traders for support and trade amendments.
• Reconcile allocated trades and report discrepancies.
• Support client onboarding with accurate data capture.

Job description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Absa CIB Post Trade Services (PTS) is looking for an individual that has specific skill sets within Trade Support/ Settlements or general stockbroking market knowledge, Corporate Actions BDA processing knowledge/experience is essential for this candidate to be successful.

Job Description

Accountability – Block Trade Allocations 40%

Receive and/or chase up clients for allocation instructions of executed trades. Confirm brokerage, price and nominal per allocation instructions to block trades executed by ACS Trades /DMA on behalf of client. Daily allocation of client bulked trades as per instructions from clients via ftp or manual upload to BDA Allocations, amendments/deal adjustments according to the timelines/deadlines as per the JSE Rules and Directives. Assisting Front office traders in rolling out an effective process re trade reporting to backoffice and trade amendments management 2

Accountability – Trade Confirmation & Matching 15%

Capturing confirming trade economic via one of the matching engines (Perfix and Omgeo) Daily Client confirmation Reporting Chasing up non affirmations in matching engine confirmations with clients and or mismatches. Resolve disagreements of trade economics with ACS dealers and or clients. Print, check & email brokers notes on a daily basis using Digibroker Confirmations sent out according to the timelines/deadlines as per the JSE Rules and Directives.

Accountability – Customer Support 20%

Liaising and communicating with Client traders/trade support and ACS traders. Maintaining and excellent relationship with both ACS Traders as well as client contacts. General BDA queries to assist Traders with queries and trade amendments.

Accountability – MIS Reporting and Reconciliation 15%

Reconciliation/Balancing of allocated trades per client instructions to ACS trader executed trades. Exceptions (over, under allocation) escalated to Trader for further action. Preparation of trade amendment KRIs and Misdeal KRIs for review by management. Daily reporting of misdeal positions and misdeal P+L to Traders. Weekly Reporting of Option Delta P+L as per BDA.

Accountability – Client On Boarding Support 10%

Accurate and complete capture of all required static information on BDA to load new trading/sub accounts for clients. Validating client SSIs with settlement agents via BDA, prior to trade booking. If no confirmation from settlement agent, follow up with client admin regarding additional details and/ no validation of SSI details. Linking client account to swift confirmation messaging, if requested by client.

Education

Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.