Hedge Fund – Trade Support recruitment
This is a unique opportunity to join a professional asset manager at a key point in their growth and development. Candidates will need to be graduates with some relevant experience and understanding of swaps, FX and middle office. Strong Excel is desired.
Middle Office provides operational support to the trading business. The team will evolve into the book running model and will be responsible for trade capture, PL and Risk analysis, and enforcing control environment for the end to end process.
Job Functions / Responsibilities:
The candidate will be supporting the Swaps and FX trading desks, with the following responsibilities:
• Work closely with the trading desks to provide the end to end book running services, which include trade capture, PL and Risk analysis, and controls along transaction life cycle
• Accurately capture reconcile all transactions in the risk management and reporting systems
• Enforcing control environment for the end to end process
• Accurately produce, reconcile explain the desk trading PL, Risk and Positions
• Provide high quality PL and Risk analysis to the desk
• Act as the first point of contact for the trading desk; work closely with the other business partners such as the Fund Managers, Prime Broker and the Administrator, to enforce control environment for the end to end process along transaction life cycle
• Perform key controls to ensure accuracy and compliance of the business and trading activities
• Participate and contribute to the various strategic initiatives; keep improving evolving our process business
Skills Requirements:
• Strong product knowledge on interest rate swaps, FRA, and other rates derivative products, along with FX products
• Experiences in PL and Risk
• Strong analytical numerical skills
• Strong technical skills, such as Excel, VBA
• Good communication skills
• Great team player to work in the pressurised environment
• Attention to detail
• Adaptable to the changing environment