Trade Management Analyst

Role

Abacus are recruiting on behalf of one of the worlds largest brokers as they continue to expand and add new departments to Belfast. Our client is consistently winning awards for best broker globally so are keen on speaking with highly ambitious individuals who will help them remain their “best in the business” position. The successful individual will be responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely processing of all trades, from internal front end trade capture systems, through the systems, and then out to the clients via various delivery mechanisms, following established guidelines, when identifying and resolving problems, and using good judgement to refer more complex issues to senior colleagues, where appropriate. 

Duties

• Ensure that all trades are managed efficiently including delivery of trades to clients, reporting venues, or clearing houses/exchanges, as appropriate
• Deliver & manage the prompt allocation of executed transactions; liaising with desks, brokers, clients, clearer & agents for prompt clearing & subsequent reporting
• Ensure intraday liquidity and exposure are managed timely
• Resolve any queries in relation to the non-delivery of electronic confirmations to a client
• Ensuring the department remain up-to-date and in compliance with all regulations and requirements affecting the Trade Management Department
• Ensure data integrity within TM systems by validating against records received from 3rd party brokers
• Monitor trade flows via the in-house exception monitoring tools
• Undertake intra-day/month actions to ensure that trades are processed, reconciled & invoiced correctly
• Engage the team lead with any suggestions of process changes that may make the team more efficient or team improve controls
• Undertake UAT and general testing of systems and processes as and when they change, including out of hours support as required, to support the checkout of weekend system upgrades
• Liaising with Brokers to manage trade exceptions
• Provide front-line support to Brokers
• Liaising with Accounts receivable to ensure clients are billed correctly
• Liaising with Clients to resolve trade queries
• Fulfil any additional ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business

Person Specification

• Must be legally eligible to work in the UK
• Knowledge of the financial markets
• A base of operations knowledge and experience would be preferable but not essential
• Skilled in Microsoft applications software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc)
• Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights
• Handles situations and problems with innovation and creativity

Why this role?

• Salary up to £30,000
• Bonus
• Opportunities to develop and progress

Next Steps:
Please submit your application or speak to a specialist consultant from the Abacus team on 0044 (0) 28 9031 3157 for a confidential discussion. We aim to respond to all inquiries within 4 business hours.
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