Trade Operations Support

Delta Capita’s Post Trade Services team works with Tier 1 InvestmentBanks and Asset Management clients across all securities and markets. As a Trade Operations Analyst, you will help clients keep their trades accurate and complete, while protecting them against operational and settlement risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Confirm and match trades in a timely manner
• Monitor incoming correspondence to identify and mitigate potential settlement risk
• Resolve settlement issues and track unconfirmed or failing trades to completion
• Investigate and clear custodian breaks
• Perform daily reconciliation of cash and positions
• Work with custodians and prime brokers to improve straight-through processing (STP) rates

• Perform monthly CSDR investigations and process reimbursements as required
• Review derivative trade confirmations to ensure accuracy

• Escalate and track disputes on derivative confirmations with counterparties
• Manage trade amendments, corporate actions and reference data to ensure positions, P&L and exposures are accurately reflected
• Handle equity swap resets, financing adjustments and dividend pass-throughs
• Support the reconciliation of swap valuations and cashflows against counterparty statements

Required experience

• 1-3 years of experience
• Hands-on experience with equity swap or total return swap confirmations and settlements

• Working knowledge of ISDA master agreements and credit support annexes (CSAs)
• Experience using trade matching or confirmation platforms such as DTCC CTM, Markit or Traiana
• Familiarity with corporate action processing and its impact on swap positions
• Experience with exception management and break resolution in a high-volume environment
• Exposure to regulatory reporting obligations