Equity Derivatives Trade Support Specialist

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.