# Equity Derivatives Trade Support Specialist

**Company**: Middle Office
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an Equity Derivatives Trade Support Specialist to join our Trade Support team at Middle Office in London. As a specialist, you will focus on volatility derivatives and play a critical role in ensuring the accurate and timely capture of trades across our global platform.

Responsibilities:

- Work with Portfolio Managers and other internal teams to automate and streamline existing processes to reduce operational risk and increase the speed and efficiency of the trade capture process.

- Ensure that the Middle Office provides a timely and high standard of service to stakeholders, supporting the business with ever-changing initiatives and demands.

- Monitor and clear trade exceptions generated by new executions in a timely manner.

- Monitor and resolve queries from Portfolio Management teams and counterparties promptly.

- Work with both onshore and offshore teams and with counterparties to match and resolve economic breaks across a range of asset classes.

- Ensure that the risk on all trades or products that do not go through an electronic platform has been appropriately addressed and mitigated.

- Provide support on T+1 to remediate any issues from the previous day in a timely manner, ensuring impacted parties are informed.

- Escalate to line management, Operational Risk, and the wider management team any failures in the process or potential issues that could create an erroneous P&L event for the firm.

Requirements:

- Previous experience with traded products, including equity derivatives and other complex volatility products.

- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to prioritize multiple deliverables.

- Strong market understanding and familiarity with industry and regulatory change.

- Ability to balance autonomous work with effective collaboration as part of a team, while managing project delivery alongside business-as-usual requirements.

- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage daily with senior stakeholders across the firm.

- Familiarity with industry-standard systems, including MarkitWire, Markit Trade Manager, and Bloomberg.

## Skills

### Required
- equity derivatives
- volatility products
- MarkitWire
- Markit Trade Manager
- Bloomberg

### Nice to have
- automation
- process improvement
- risk management

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