Associate - Rates Middle Office Support **

This position will be under the Employee Referral Program in Hong Kong.

Within, Operations, Premises & Country COOs (OPC) based in Hong Kong, Capital Market Operations (CMO) teams are responsible to process the transaction activities for Credit, Rates, FX/MM, Securities and Equities for multiple geographies (APAC and EMEA). There are 2 teams under CMO HK in charge of:

• Capital Market Middle Office (CMM)
• Capital Market Back Office (CMB)

Capital Market Middle Office team in HK is around 40 staffs and 6 sub-teams:

• MO Sales and Client Services: In charge of deals originated by Sales including Trade validation, allocations, MTM reporting and collateral management
• MO IRD/ EIS: In charge of Interest Rate and Equity Derivatives
• MO FX/MM/ Credit: In charge of Foreign Exchange, Money Market and Credits
• MO Post Trade: In charge of the processing activities from FO systems to BO systems
• MO Reconciliation: In charge of the various reconciliation (FO-BO; FO-FO,...)
• MDA: In charge of Market Data activities

This role is within the Capital Markets Rates Middle Office Support teams covering Linear and Structured Rates derivatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support to Front Office business lines under Global Markets Division during Asian trading hours
• Ensure transactional integrity across trading applications, including 1st level trade checking
• Perform trade modification, cancellation, and/ or trade event processing (ie: early termination, partial termination, unwind) upon trading approval and report profit and loss impact, if any
• Monitoring, calculation and validation of events affecting the life of a structured product (coupons, Securities transactions, early partial closing, early exercise, maturity, nominal changes, etc.)
• Monitoring, calculation and validation of events affecting the life of a structured product (coupons, early partial closing, early exercise, maturity, nominal changes, etc.)
• Provide an efficient post-trade support by ensuring trade information flows efficiently through deal processing from front office to back office system and front-office to front office system
• Investigate and follow-up of breaks sent by back office, front office and other internal departments.
• Support local business development and volume increase.
• Ad hoc participation and support for projects for continuous improvement and optimization of management processes (specifications, user tests, process drafting) in conjunction with project teams, IT teams and management

Supplementary Information

In accordance with the Mandatory Reference Checking (MRC) Scheme implemented by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), a successful candidate for an In-Scope Position who has held a position with an In-Scope Institution in the past 7 years will be subject to a mandatory reference check. For more details, please refer to Mandatory Reference Checking Scheme Phase 2 | The Hong Kong Association of Banks .

Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with the employer's personal data policies, a copy of which will be provided immediately upon request.

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Candidate criteria

Minimal education level

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Academic qualification / Speciality

University Degree holder from discipline in Finance, Mathematics or Engineering

Level of minimal experience

6-10 years

Experience

Minimum 5-8 years' experience in Rates Derivatives Middle Office environment is necessary

Required skills

• Good knowledge of financial products and understanding of the operational risks involved in Rates derivatives including the structured products
• Good analytical, organizational and interpersonal skill
• Comfortable with multi-tasking and able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong attention to details and a self-starter who is highly motivated
• Good judgement, alertness and common sense
• Versatile with PC tools and applications, e.g. MS Office, VBA

Languages

Fluency in English. Proficient in French or other Asian languages a definite advantage