Sales & Trading Operations Director recruitment
Job Overview
The role is responsible for providing operational support to Sales and Trading business. The key function covers the various products its processing required in the general banking operations in China including the trade capture, settlement, local reporting, confirmation and other process control functions. A wide range of most of banking products will be including, such as FX, money market, Bond, Repo, options, futures, Interest Rate Swap and other exotic FX/interest features embedded transactions.
The position should have an ability to supervise day-to-day operational flows, as well as to teach other junior staff.
Responsibilities
- Supervise day-to-day operational flows, i.e. trade capture/settlement processing; trade confirmation processing; Perform P/L Calculation and mismatch follow up;
- Participate and supervise in daily control process such as internal system/inter-desk/nosto/depot reconciliation considering the high risk embedded to banking operations and exceptional trade control required by regulatory concern;
- Liaise and resolve queries on transaction related issues, give a quick feedback on traders’ queries;
- Control Daily/Monthly/Quarterly regulatory reporting requirements ST Ops related to local regulatory;
- Ensure the processing is in compliance with the firm policy and local regulations
- Assist senior manager of ST Ops in the built out of the sales/trading operation team and its related infrastructure; Looking for process or system improvement to increase capacity and efficiency
- Assist senior manager of ST Ops to manage staff performance
Requirements
- Over 8 years banking experience with a minimum of 5 years sales and trading Ops experience over; solid knowledge on P/L calculation and local regulations
- Ability to identify problems as they arise and understand when these need to be escalated, good problem solving skills are a necessity
- High personal commitment and integrity; able to drive new initiatives and put forward new ideas
- Ability to work in a highly pressurized environment, able to maintain composure while remain assertive when dealing with complex problem
- Good communication and organizational skill, able to interact and work effectively across functional/locations in multiple tasks; able to motivate/develop people to make deliverable within target
- High sense of risk awareness and good understanding of the local regulations, able to articulate identified risk-issues before they are obvious to a broad spectrum.