Trading Services [Multiple Positions Available]

Duties: Support the Equity Derivative Structured Products Desks in North America, covering both sales and trading for exotic and flow derivatives business lines. Provide support to the cross-asset sales team in the issuance and lifecycle of non-equity linked structured products. Facilitate trade bookings, query structured trades, and validate the economic integrity of trades to ensure proper settlement. Complete client setup, action secondary buyback formalities, and facilitate pricing using Bloomberg and other tools. Collaborate with sales to ensure pre-trade approvals for new structured products. Ensure clients are onboarded correctly and complete all pre- trade formalities before the issue date. Prepare various calculations for structured trades including equities and cross-asset classes, expiries, coupons, physical payoffs, and draft fixing notices for custodians. Perform calculations using term sheets, confirmations, and Excel models, pulling data from Bloomberg and other sources. Responsible for trade capture of Structured Products into various front office systems. Initiate and work on projects to reduce manual labor, increase controls, and mitigate the risk of input errors. Identify, implement, and support efforts to reduce manual work per trade, and collaborate with other teams to reduce costs within the middle office by leveraging low-cost centers. Drive the future state of the Structured Products business and improve daily processes.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor's degree in Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Mathematics, or related field of study plus 1 year of experience in the job offered or as Trading Services or related occupation.
Skills Required: This position requires experience with the following: Structured Products under various asset classes including Equity Derivatives, FX, Rates, Credit, and Commodities; Risk management systems and unique risk measures for each type of asset class including Equity, Credit, Rates, Commodities, and FX, including Delta, Gamma, Theta, Rho, and Vega; Booking flows of structured products from FO risk systems, through the full product lifecycle management including coupons, knockouts, and corporate actions, to settlement involving issuance and paying agents, custodians, and clearing systems; Trade and product lifecycle of derivative products across both securitized and OTC products; Controls processes surrounding the trading and lifecycle of financial products including pre-matching, fails monitoring, inter-entity and inter-system reconciliations, and PnL monitoring; Coding Excel macros using VBA to automate recurring tasks involving data extraction, transformation, and communication using e-mail; Using low code tools including Alteryx, Tableau, and UI Path to develop data analytic models, dashboards, and automation solutions; Large data models and data infrastructure for large firms; Writing SQL and Python scripts to run large-scale queries to obtain information from databases; Using market data systems including Reuters and Bloomberg, and working with the various screens and tools the platforms offer including using Bloomberg add-ins for Excel to set up automated queries.
Job Location: 270 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017.
Full-Time. Salary: $99,200 - $110,000 per year.