Trade Support Lead – Commodities Market (Middle Office / FO Exposure) - LevelUp

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Overview

• This role will provide Front Office level support for Commodities Markets division for a Corporate & Investment Banking organisation based in the City of London.
• Adherence to the organisations internal policies and regulatory requirements framing the business activity.
• Provide support to Commodities Markets Traders in securing the booking, positions and inherent risks of their books.
• Be the back-up cover in relation to supporting all range of commodity underlying within the Trade Support group.
• The scope can be extended to specific situations where applicable, including other business lines or geographical locations.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide hand‑on leadership in the day to day running flow of production; strive for excellence in the operational processes.
• Promote a strong and reactive performance culture within the Trade Support production chain.
• Develop strong relationships with the Front Office desks.
• Ensure the best quality of service is delivered to the Trade Support clients, i.e. Front Office Traders, Sales whilst ensuring that internal frameworks and policies are adhered to.
• Communicate efficiently and adequately to transversal departments and downstream chain.
• Support new business line requirements and business initiatives; apply problem solving skills and agile contribution to the development of new solutions for daily production.
• Participate and propose reinforcement of ad‑hoc controls and reconciliations that should be in place across products, with a strong focus in mitigating the operational risk factor. Ensure a good level of knowledge of the complete lifecycle of trades.
• Communicate as well as coordinate with appropriate teams across the lifecycle stakeholders from FO to Product Control to BO
• Analyse, challenge, report and expedite appropriately potential issues. Mitigate operational risks.
• Understanding and capacity to analyse transactions with associated hedging and risk representations.

Daily Production tasks (not restricted to & subject to evolve)

• Ensures all trades within scope are in the system for correct P&I and risks on trade date.
• First level of control of manually booked trades at inception (economic details, booking specificities, technicalities of system requirements)
• Whilst Traders remain accountable for proper representation in the systems, assist FO in booking of trades when required following the roles & responsibilities matrix and embedded 4 eye checks through dedicated queues.
• First point of entry and ownership of the analysis securing legitimacy for amendments/cancellations requests in relation to the Primary Economical Terms of the transactions. Challenge, measure the impacts, report, and action the amendments under Trader’s approvals.
• Initiate workflow of approvals with other departments (e.g. Market risk & Quants) in relation to amendments not pertaining to primary economical terms (e.g. in relation to models & risks). On approval proceed to action amendments, measure impacts and report to traders.
• Monitoring of product lifecycle events impacting the positions internally & externally when facing the Market & OTC clients (e.g. Future expiries, conditional payoffs, EOM deliverables).
• Post trade life cycle generations of events within scope (Option expiries monitoring, manual payoffs calculation & bookings)
• Setup Markup/XVA controls with FO to ensure P&L accuracy.
• Setup high level EOM mark to market controls ensuring client statements accuracy.
• Setup cash balances monitoring of IM/VM consumption vs funding with FO
• Setup with FO basis risk control of unsecured vs secured discounting curves positions for closer monitoring & rebalancing/ with possible internal hedging.
• Ad‑hoc reporting e.g. Hit/Miss / CC reports.
• Answer and liaise to punctual requests from transversal departments (e.g. Internal Audit, Compliance Control, Anti‑Fraud, other GMO departments).

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Good communication skills with Traders/Sales/IT/Management and team members.
• High level of commitment, reactivity, reliability on support related issues.
• Excellent autonomy with the systems, processes and decision‑taking frameworks.
• Capacity to challenge Traders requests whilst maintaining professional report.
• Capacity to troubleshoot front office related issues and elevate situations of risk.
• Commodities (Swaps Fixed/Float. Float/FLoat, Gas Formulas, Options, Futures, Physical, Warrants)
• Fixed Income (IR, FX, MM)
• Strong first level of financial approach: identification of trades with their associated hedge and risks
• Knowledge of trade life cycle for listed and OTC trades at inception and downstream levels, as well as impacts for Marple in terms of Market risks and official P&L publication.
• Understanding of Front Office systems: SOPHIS / MUREX / SUMMIT and system Gateways interactions.
• Advanced knowledge of Excel.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Finance and Sales