Trade Support Analyst

Job description

​Charterhouse is partnering with a market leading financial services firm who are looking to hire a Trade Support Analyst to join their Operations/ Middle Office team. This role requires the Analyst to have a strong understanding Equities, Derivatives, Fixed Income, CFDs and will be supporting the front office and traders of the firm.

About the Role
As a Trade Support Analyst, the main responsibility will be ensuring accuracy of the full trade lifecycle including, both execution and settlement, and reconciliations.

This role will be responsible for ensuring the correct trade confirmations are sent to the client with an accurate settlement date. As well as this, completing the reconciliation of client accounts across all asset classes and the brokers PnL.

This role also involves building and maintaining solid internal and external relationships with the front office and custodians to aide fluency of the process (for new accounts, mismatched trades etc). The Trade Support Analyst will also be liaising with Risk, Credit and relationship management to ensure controls and break management related tasks are performed to the highest standards to mitigate further operational and reputational risk.

About You
To be considered for this role, the ideal candidate must have at least 3 years’ experience in either a trade support/operations or middle office role where they have been responsible for providing operational support to the front office, preferably from a broker.

The successful candidate is expected to have a strong understanding of equities, fixed income and CFDs as well as experience using multiple banking platforms eg. Barclays, FAB etc. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have implemented new processes using programming languages.