Job Title
Equity Derivatives Trade Support Specialist - Operations
Corporate Title
Assistant Vice President
Location
London, UK
Role Description
The role provides trade support across Equity Derivatives desk's and assists with all the operational queries and bookings that are required to ensure client service excellence and satisfaction. The team provides a centralised contact point for the desk, sales, clients, settlements, and documentation areas to go to for resolution of operational issues that may arise. The candidate will have regular interaction with the Front Office, be located on the trading floor, and be expected to resolve trader related queries as part of this role.
Responsibilities
- Provide support to the Exotic and Flow Derivative Trading desks and equivalent sales teams across all structured products including notes, autocallables and Monti Carlo simulation
- Lifecycle Management: Monitoring and booking of Derivatives payment events, barrier monitoring, corporate actions, fixings, and swap resets. Provide calculation sheets for complex payoffs
- Ensuring that daily emails sent to the inbox and Bloomberg chats are dealt in a swift manner and prioritized accordingly.
- Trade Maintenance, reviewing queries and performing amendments on OTC Exotic Derivatives and vanilla products
- Review market data and ensure that it is accurate.
- Represent the group and face off to partner groups
- Intercompany reconciliations
- Reviewing front to back and exchange reconciliation breaks
What we are looking for
- Experience in Equities Derivatives, ideally gained within a Middle Office or Trade Support environment
- Excel skills
- A degree (or equivalent) in Mathematics, Finance, Economics, or a similar field
Skills that will help
- Outstanding attention to detail and good team player
- Excellent communication skills—ability to provide executive summary to multiple stakeholders
- Diligent, ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining high standards
- SQL & VBA
Benefits of working at Bank of America, UK
- Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
- Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
- 20 days of back-up childcare including virtual tutoring and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
- The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc
- Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
- Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services
- Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
- Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership programme and receive discounted entry to some of the UK and Ireland's most iconic cultural institutions
- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area
Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio‑economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, and experience. We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.
