Vice President Middle Office Rates recruitment
The group provides Middle Office and Risk and PL services to the fixed income trading desks in London and New York.
Key Responsibilities:
- Risk and PL production and analysis for the Rates trading desk.
- Daily interaction with desk, trading and finance as well as other key stakeholders
- Monitor risk of the trading books with respect to PnL generated and market movement
- Assist with pricing and modeling of trades as necessary
- Maintenance and development of controls around the risk and P/L process.
- Participate in re-engineering of current workflows with high focus on Operational Risk and Controls
- Daily reporting of PL with commentary as relating to the trading activity and market movements, to the Desk and Senior Management of the Firm.
- Work on Tactical / Strategic projects to optimize system efficiency
- Responding to Ad hoc reporting requests from key stakeholders and management.
- Manage relationship with offshore bookrunning teams and act as onshore Subject Matter Expert.
Desired Experience:
- Product Control / Risk and PL experience, ideally within fixed income derivatives or other derivative area.
- Desire to design and implement creative solutions
- The ability to work to meet daily deadlines
- Knowledge of RWA / Basel Accords
- Possess working knowledge of derivative products and familiarity with trading and hedging strategies
- Skilled Visual Basic user or familiar with programming theory
- Familiar with Bloomberg
Desired Qualities:
- A control focused individual with excellent attention to detail
- Enthusiastic with an interest in products and markets
- Willingness to learn new products, processes, and skills.
- Willingness to take ownership of projects and tasks to completion.
- A team player
- Logical/mathematical
- Good communication skills
This opportunity will present the successful candidate with an opportunity to gain exposure within a fast-moving environment where both the team and individual can make significant contribution to the group, Front Office and Financial Control. There will be excellent exposure to a range of products. An appetite to quickly learn the products is essential, as is an ability to work effectively whilst under pressure.
June 4, 2012
• Tags: Capital Markets careers in the USA, Vice President Middle Office Rates recruitment • Posted in: Financial