Hedge Fund Trade Support
The Company
Robert Half are representing a West End based Hedge Fund for someone to join their Middle Office. The company are financially strong and trade a wide range of Asset classes with particular emphasis upon Fixed Income, Futures and OTC Interest Rate Swaps. The company are expanding and launching new funds, hence needing somene to start.
The Role
Robert Half are representing a West End based Hedge Fund for someone to join their Middle Office. The company are financially strong and trade a wide range of Asset classes with particular emphasis upon Fixed Income, Futures and OTC Interest Rate Swaps . The company are expanding and launching new funds, hence needing someone to start. The position will be initially temporary for 4-months with the view to going permanent after that date. The ideal graduate will be of graduate calibre with strong working knowledge ideally from a Hedge Fund, or Asset Management background, or Prime Brokerage. Strong Fixed Income, Futures and OTC Interest Rate Swaps product knowledge is a must, as well as being numerate demonstrating this either through academic qualifications or experience in a previous role.The role will involve trade processing working with their traders, counterparties and brokers. The main stakeholders within the business are the traders, product control, risk, administrators and prime brokers. The role will mainly cover the European and US marketsWhilst the role will involve liaising with the counterparties as well as their traders, should there be areas that need resolving, the candidate will have proven experience in being able to understand the origination of such issues and would have proven experience in resolving such problems.The Operations function liaises with brokers and administrators to provide operational support for key business stakeholders and clients. Functions include daily trade confirmation and communication, settlement and fails management, cash reconciliation and reporting, client on-boarding and the overall management of related operational.The role will involve:- Booking trades on a timely basis. To include bonds, futures, interest rate swaps and OTC derivative trades.- Assisting the traders as required.- Liaising with the counterparties, prime brokers and administrators and investigating deal issues as required and ensuring the satisfactory clearance of such issues.- Understanding the overall deal booking process for the company and the roles placed on the administrators and the prime brokers.- Checking wire transfer forms- Assisting the Operations Manager with daily tasks as required.
Salary Benefits
Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply.
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