Trade Support Specialist, Vanilla

Standard Bank Group; Johannesburg; Sur place; ZAR 900 000 - 1 500 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Standard Bank Group in Johannesburg seeks a skilled Middle Office/Trade Support professional to back the Africa Trading Desk, with expanded responsibility for Money Markets and IRD. You will support the end-to-end trade lifecycle, validate trades, resolve exceptions, and drive process improvements to ensure accurate settlements and compliant operations.

The role requires 3–5 years in trade support/operations, strong collaboration across teams, and proficiency with banking systems and MS Office.

Qualifications

• First Degree in Business, Finance, or related field.
• 3–5 years of trade support and operations experience.
• Advanced knowledge of Global Markets trade lifecycles and multiple products.
• Proficient with MS Office and banking systems.

Responsabilités

• Provide operational support across the Africa Trading Desk and money markets/IRD.
• Allocate, validate, and enrich trades; resolve exceptions; improve processes.
• Ensure trades settle with regulatory compliance and manage risk.

Connaissances

Trade Support

Operations

Global Markets

IR Derivatives

Microsoft Office

Team Coordination

Risk & P&L

Pricing & Risk

Technology Savvy

End-to-End Lifecycle

Formation

First Degree

Outils

Trading Systems

MS Office

Banking Systems

Excel

Description du poste

• Business Segment: Corporate & Investment Banking

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

Middle Office/Trade support for the Africa Trading Desk, with expanded responsibility for Money Markets and Interest Rate Derivative (IRD). Supporting Global Markets Clients and our Sales and Trading business, in managing and facilitating the operational trade lifecycle (including allocating, validating and enriching trades, identifying and resolving exceptions and queries and implementing continuous improvement measures) to support trades originating on Global Markets Desks ensuring that trades can be effectively settled, comply with regulatory standards, mitigate operational risk and create a positive client experience.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing operational support to the Africa Trading Desk, including coverage on South African public holidays when required.

Qualifications

Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Business Commerce, Finance and Accounting, Mathematical Sciences
Experience Required
Trade Support
Operations
3-5 years
Ability to self manage, coordinate across teams and stakeholders within business, operations, technology and finance.
3-5 years
Advanced experience in the Trade Lifecycle of Global Markets environment. Covering multiple products ranging in complexity in Interest Rate Swaps, Total Return Swaps, Structured Notes, Bonds, Options, Loans and Deposits, Non Deliverable Forwards, FX Spots, FX Forwards, FX Swaps,
3-5 years
Principles and practical application of pricing and risk management and the impact of these on risk, P&L and entire value chain.
3-5 years
Proficient technology experience and the ability to manage desk specific systems, software and processes, including Microsoft applications and other banking industry systems.
3-5 years
Seasoned knowledge and understanding of trading environment (end-to- end value chain) across products / instruments traded with system and manual process complexity.

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Checking Things
• Conveying Self-Confidence
• Developing Expertise
• Documenting Facts
• Examining Information
• Following Procedures
• Interacting with People
• Interpreting Data
• Inviting Feedback
• Managing Tasks
• Producing Output
• Pursuing Goals
• Showing Composure
• Team Working
• Thinking Positively
• Upholding Standards
• Business Process Improvement
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Deal or Trade Life Cycles
• Deal Set-up & Administration
• Evaluation of Internal Controls
• Manual Deal or Trade Processing
• Process Analysis and Redesign
• Product Knowledge (Trading, Transacting)
• Query Resolution
• Technology Savvy

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