Job Description
Role Description
Analyst will process daily documentation/confirmations and related activities of the team. Analyst will be responsible to ensure that all tasks assigned to the team are done accurately and all the exceptions items are followed up to resolution. Analyst will also facilitate projects, group initiatives and exception processing resolution. Solid technical understanding of the business is expected, including strong knowledge of Trade life cycle and a sound understanding of various investment products like Foreign Exchange, Equities, Fixed income, Derivatives, Structured products and Exchange traded funds at the end of the Probation period. Derivative documentation team is responsible for various confirmations and queries related to documentation activities. Services provided to client spread across the Globe includes FX Cash, Options, Rates and Credit derivatives includes trade confirmation, affirmations, novations etc.
Your key responsibilities
- Ensuring that all the trades are confirmed/necessary actions are taken before set timelines
- Follow up with clients for sending confirmations on time
- Understands and effectively manages risks through timely and accurate escalation of key issues
- Monitor and ensure all trades in the queues are actioned
- Liaise with MO, FO and client to resolve discrepancies.
- Understanding of various derivatives products and terms used in documentation
- Ensure that all the queries are responded in time and breaks are referred
- Perform analysis of the trades and confirmations.
- Minimizing Run-The-Bank costs.
- Providing appropriate Management Information to Business Line managers.
- Continually looking for opportunities to challenge, standardize and improve processes
- Preparation & Monitoring of various MIS reports
- Ensure regulatory aspects are covered while confirming trades
Your skills and experience
- Ability to demonstrate a sound of understanding of a range of Fx and Derivative products. Strong Team-working skills – for working with both internal departments globally.
- Liaise with Sales, Traders, Clients, Middle Office, Accounting, Documentation, Operations, and Collateral Management.
- Experience preferred with Derivatives or FX documentation
- Awareness of Front-to-Back processing: trading, documentation, clearing, settlement, financial accounting, risk
- Foster and maintain communication channels with internal teams and external clients/counterparties
- Work with manager to complete long-range projects designed to improve workflows, streamline processes lower error rates, increase client satisfactions, etc.