FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking an Operations Analyst to work for our client within the financial services sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in London.
Our client is looking for an Operations Analyst to join the Credit Derivatives Trade Support Group (TSG). You will regularly liaise with Trading and Sales to ensure all trades are correctly booked in the risk system. TSG are the conduit for all post execution trade flow downstream to various other operational departments. You will also work with IT and management to improve systems and processes with a view to constantly improving controls and efficiency. At the forefront of the team’s focus is the incorporation of current industry initiatives and best practices such as clearing and compression related activity.
Responsibilities
* Maintain controls to ensure trader's risk is correct and operational risks are reduced while investigating breaks in trade reporting and capturing
* Build relationships with teams and external parties
* Provide understanding and support the contributions to trade P&L ensuring its validity and alignment with executive expectations
* Understand Straight Through Processing (STP) flow of trades and investigate issues
* Liaise with global teams to challenge processes and controls while improving and implementing changes wherever possible to improve productivity or optimize workflows
* Manage group email inbox, investigating issues and giving timely responses
* Support initiatives relevant to internal & external compressions as well as trade clearing while ensuring regulatory compliance
* Ad hoc trader requests and queries as well as operational projects, tracking projects to ensure timely delivery