Equity Derivatives

2 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia Anton Murray Consulting Full time

Sydney- Investment Banking- PermanentThe Desk Assistant role sits in the Prime Brokerage Client & Trade Service team. The purpose of the role is to provide a premium service to Cash Agency & Prime Brokerage clients and the Front Office, acting as the single point of contact regarding post-trade management and daily operational activity across all asset classes.

**Key responsibilities**
- Desk Assistants are physically co-located with the Front Office trading desk to facilitate communication and connectivity with daily events.
- Supports the Synthetic Prime Brokerage, Cash Prime Brokerage, Cash Agency and Delta 1 business lines
- The Desk Assistant functions can be categorised under the following categories, Front to back SME Escalation Point, Business Facilitation, Strategic Deliverables and Control Functions
- The Desk Assistant engagement model with Trade Support exists as a partnership between the two teams, whereby the Trade Support & Settlements team is an extension of the Desk assistants who also perform an overview function.
- Escalation point and liaison for bespoke issues from Operational layers and Front Office
- Assist with escalated P&L Queries and Issues from Finance
- Attend regularly occurring meetings with Operations utility groups & review and monitor of MIS (Trade Capture & Reconciliation)
- First point of contact for New Business Initiatives
- Perform T-Zero Controls
- Perform high risk actions to ensure smooth settlement of trades, and resolve escalated breaks
- Liaise with clients as and when required to ensure smooth settlement of trades

**Trade Booking, Amendment & Validation**
- Create and maintain swap templates
- Book late trade in Trade repository Systems
- Validate trade in Trade repository Systems
- Amend or cancel trade in Trade repository Systems post trade date

**Reconciliations**
- Reconciling incoming trades into the matching platform (i.e. Traiana), and working with client, brokers and trading desk to reconcile miss-matches to ensure trades are booked on trade date
- Perform daily reconciliations, internally (BO, finance..etc) and externally (with clients), and explain the breaks
- Perform FO/MO reconciliations between Trading End of Day books and morning data in Trade repository Systems

**Trade Lifecycle Events**
- Provide full coverage for corporate actions. Proactively reaching out to clients on up and coming corporate actions, and any pending settlement/cash issues.
- Booking in Trade repository Systems for Corporate Action events
- Communicating all Corporate Actions for both hedge and swaps

**Experience**
- 5+ years’ Trade Support experience.
- Strong understanding of financial markets and Global markets products.
- Strong equity derivatives and FX products knowledge (including the Front-To-Back workflows and the product event management)
- Previous experience in PB industry in Trade Support or Operations role with equity derivatives background is preferred.
- Proficiency in Excel
- Experience with Traiana and related 3rd party products advantageous

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