Integrated Middle Office Specialist

Your role

We’re looking for an Integrated Middle Office Specialist to:

• Provide the link between front office (trading, sales, COO) functions and other operations and finance teams in managing front to back operational risk.
• Working knowledge of Contract Compare, Trade Support, Billing, Collateral Middle office trade lifecycle
• Perform front-to-back reconciliations for the products traded by the desk.
• Facilitate the production and sign-off of an accurate T0 P&L and T+1 reconciliation with the actual P&L, in partnership with Finance.
• Ensure trade booking practices adhere to predefined models, acting as gateway into the front-to-back infrastructure and maintaining static data maintenance.
• Investigate and respond to risk, P&L, settlements, confirmations, legal and IT queries.
• Escalate and resolve risk exceptions on a timely basis.
• Participate in risk review meetings with operational risk, the business and COO to review and explain key risk metrics.

Your team

You’ll be working in the IB aligned Global Financing Services middle office team

The Integrated Middle Office primary control focus is ensuring the completeness and accuracy of transactions from front end risk management systems to downstream systems. As the link between the front office and other operations and finance functions you'll also be involved in regulatory, client, and process improvement initiatives as required.

As an Integrated Middle Office Specialist you’ll play an important role in managing the operational risk of the Global Financing Services business and improving the client experience.

Your expertise

• Ideally 2-7+ years of experience within a middle office and P&L control environment.
• Understanding of risk management for equities.
• Working knowledge of system like Equilend, Pirum, Globalone
• Excellent knowledge Contract Compare, Trade Support, Billing, Collateral Middle office trade lifecycle Great at problem analysis and resolution: identify and examine problems in order to understand them, generate options and recommend solutions which are logical, reasonable and realistic.