Equities Middle Office, AVP

• Support the Equity, Equity Derivatives, Structured Loans, FX, & Rates businesses for the Asia regions with an emphasis on Trade Validation & Review, Lifecycle & Clearing events, Start-of -Day & End-of-Day batch support, Trading & Sales desk support, Client support and all associated Front-to-Back controls
• Ensure transactional data quality on derivatives, exotics, structured trading activities remains high and well-controlled
• Perform independent trade validation of complex exotics/structured trades following trade capture
• Monitor and manage trade exception
• Monitor and coordinate trade life cycle and clearing events
• Monitor and remediate all start-of-day (SOD) & end-of-day (EOD) batches to ensure completeness of daily Profit & Loss and Risk Analysis
• Deliver effective controls and services to upstream and downstream business functions
• Support projects and new products, strategic operating model changes, systems, or regulatory initiatives
• Collaborate with global stakeholders to drive changes and automation to create capacity to support business growth
• Provide feedback and deliver training to junior team members
• Support business areas with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution
• Support various business areas with day-to-day initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate operational processes
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations in operational processes
• Development and implementation of operational procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency
• Development of reports and presentations on operational performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in banking operations
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness

• 7-9 years’ experience in trade-support, middle-office or operations functions
• Degree or equivalent experience in Business/Finance studies
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end flows in a structured and derivatives trading business and the control points along the process chain
• Fundamental derivatives pricing and risk management knowledge
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products, e.g. teams, Co-pilot, Alteryx, Python, Macro VBA skills etc.

Knowledge of financial/structured products, products and their characteristics