Trade Management Operations Officer

Job Description
- Group Overview:
The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Responsibilities:

- Responsible for ensuring that all trades arrive from the various front end trade capture systems, and are processed into such in a timely manner
- Ensure that all trades are delivered to the client, via a 3rd Party electronic mechanism (e.g. Markitwire, Reuters), where applicable.
- Ensure that all confirmations are delivered to the client, via either Fax, or E-Mail (or alternative route, such as ACS).
- Resolve any queries in relation to non-delivery of electronic confirmations, liaising with either the 3rd Party Vendor and/or the Ops Services team, to ensure delivery by amending the trade after any changes / permission being granted.
- Ensure timely and accurate entry of trades into various clearing venues, as appropriate.
- Oversight of clearing and reporting processes relating to errors or defaults.
- Ensure that any incoming confirmations from a 3rd party broker, or an overseas branch, match the details that we have booked in our system
- Monitor matching tools, ensuring that trades with overseas offices match in a timely manner and are delivered to Markitwire or Reuters
- Monitor the MW confirmation status in TMS.
- Cross checking the agreements against the rates in SDM and also maintaining a summarised brokerage list Middle office procedure
- Maintaining client balances and ensuring to notify the brokers and the back office to change certain clients rates when the caps are reached
- Assisting settlements with SDM (static data) - any changes that need making, adding new traders and maintaining client details
- Checking exception brokerage reports and ensuring variances are valid
- Processing EFPs (Exchange for Physical) in Trade Accept
- Cross training new staff
- Completing a Traiana Credit Check when applicable
- Maintaining an up to date contact list of clearers
- With reference to the above point, and in relation to SEF executed trades, ensure that all trades are cleared in a timely manner, escalating as appropriate, in accordance with the procedures defined.
- Onboarding new clients, traders, brokers, ensure KYC, AML are in order.
- Setting up brokerage agreements and input in relevant system
- Resolve queries in relation to non-delivery of electronic confirmations, liaising with either the 3rd Party Vendor and/or the Ops Services team, to ensure delivery, amending the trade, as necessary, subsequent to any changes / permission being granted.
- Provide daily, weekly and monthly reports where required to Commercial and Operational management.

Competence:

- Have good underlying knowledge of multiple asset classes, including of Futures, Interest Rates, FX Forwards, Capital market and Money market
- Traiana, Trade Accept, Markitiwire for external systems and TMS, Edeal and SDM for internal systems
- SEF Clerks - have an understanding of the Swap Execution Facility and ensure to identify all SEF trades in accordance US Clearing mandate

Experience
- Have experience managing trade flow, ideally from a financial services background, and be able to show evidence as to products knowledge, and the ability to communicate effectively with the front office.
- Resolve queries in relation to non-delivery of electronic confirmations, liaising with either the 3rd Party Vendor and/or the Ops Services team, to ensure delivery, amending the trade, as necessary, subsequent to any changes / permission being granted.
- Overview of external systems/platforms, such as Markitwire.
- Contact MarkitWire/Reuters, where appropriate, to resolve any trades that cannot be delivered the due to permission/data issues.
- Handles trade queries from institutional customers and front office.

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Location

Australia - Level 29 - Castlereagh Street - Sydney