Derivatives Analyst | 1x to 2x RTO a month | Night Shift

About the Company

Operations is responsible for supporting the various trading, investment, and reporting activities of the firm. The core mission of the Operations group is to establish scalable investment workflows, ensure a controlled operating environment and deliver high-quality client service to both internal and external business relationships. In addition to supporting primary investment related activities, the groups assist in design and implementation of firm-wide projects, operational due diligence, counterparty management and client-related activities.

About the Role

Trading Operations oversees the full breadth of firm wide trade settlements by leveraging scalable, straight through processes to ensure a seamless transition of a trade through its complete lifecycle from trade matching and reconciliation to allocation and delivery and finally, funding and settlement.

Responsibilities

• Properly communicate with onshore counterparts, custodians, brokers, and administrators to query, escalate and resolve issues pertaining to the processes and deliverables assigned.
• Expected to expand their skills and knowledge through cross-training and may be assigned to support and handle daily tasks from other teams within Middle Office space.
• Identify opportunities for process efficiencies through streamlining and automation projects by collaborating with other team members.
• All members should be aware and able to perform the standard procedure of a proper handoff, both offshore and onshore.
• Ensure timely update and completeness of process documentation.
• Able to take on additional responsibilities as the group expands.
• Any related process as required by both onshore and offshore teams.

Derivatives Operations Process:

• Reconcile all investment products handled by DerivOps in Three-way Positions Reconciliation.
• Liaise with the relevant counterparties (Brokers and Custodians) for all unmatched trades from the Traiana Harmony system for Synthetic Futures and FX products.
• Coordinate with the relevant counterparties (Brokers and Custodians) for all unmatched trades from the CLS tool for FX products.
• Create wires for OTC derivative instruments, Settlements for Commodities, Mortgage-Backed Securities, and Synthetics, and Index Swaps.
• Assist in answering FX-related inquiries sent to the FX MO distribution email.
• Assist in Monitoring and resolving all ageing Derivops wire breaks.
• Assist in Mailbox clean-up and monitoring.

Qualifications

• Experienced Associates (with at least 3 years of experience) with knowledge/exposure Capital Markets, Reconciliation and General Fund Accounting Principles. Alternatively, basic instrument knowledge in security types (Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives) and the Trade Life Cycle/Settlement process.
• Basic to Intermediate knowledge in Excel and SQL, or VBA is a plus.
• Possess good communication and client service skills.
• Can work with minimal supervision and deliver high-quality output.
• With multi-tasking skills and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Must be proactive, motivated, detail-oriented, a team player and knows how to work with Service Level Agreements (SLA) and metrics.
• Must be willing to work on Graveyard shift (9 PM - 6 AM Philippine Time).
• Comfortable working in rapidly changing, team-based work environment.

Required Skills

• Basic to Intermediate knowledge in Excel and SQL.
• Possess good communication and client service skills.
• Can work with minimal supervision and deliver high-quality output.
• With multi-tasking skills and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Must be proactive, motivated, detail-oriented, a team player and knows how to work with Service Level Agreements (SLA) and metrics.
• Comfortable working in rapidly changing, team-based work environment.

Preferred Skills

• VBA is a plus.
• Knowledge/exposure Capital Markets, Reconciliation and General Fund Accounting Principles.
• Basic instrument knowledge in security types (Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives) and the Trade Life Cycle/Settlement process.