Post Trade Associate

Title: Post Trade Associate

Status: Permanent, Full time

Salary: Annual salary + 10% bonus + 4 weeks of vacation + health benefits

Location: Downtown Montreal, Quebec - Hybrid 3 days in office, 2 days work from home after the probation period

TO APPLY: Please send your resume to emily.woods@groomassocies.com

Our client is an international banking and financial institution with divisions located in the Americas, Europe, Asia,and the Middle East. They are establishing their first Canadian office and are expecting exponential growth.

The Post Trade Associate will be part of the control and support functions of the operations initiated by the GMD Front Office within the back office system.

Your role will be to facilitate and to smooth the processing of the operations in the processing chains by ensuring an effective and relevant control process of operations.

Key Responsibilities:

- Ensure the proper integration of transactions initiated by the Front Office into the Back Office systems of the Bank.

- Deal checking against trade supporting documents and liaise with internal teams for any trade discrepancy.

- Investigation related to internal queries (deal searching, request for information, FO-BO reconciliation).

- Conduct controls related to the integration of operations in respect of local regulations and internal policies.

- Management of requests from Control / Reconciliation / accounting teams.

- Management of fixing within back office systems.

- Booking of non STP operations in the Back Office System according to the documentations.

- Management of transverse tasks: Brokerage value, Structure Id and other tasks.

- Assist Line manager to carry out common projects / global initiatives

- Assist in system enhancement and UAT testing

- Participation in the drafting and/or updating of operational procedures for the sector.

- Manage operational risk with a duty to alert Management.

Qualifications:

- University degree with 4-6 years of experience in a Capital Market Operations or Middle Office environments

- Degree holder from discipline in business administration, banking or finance-related discipline preferred

- Knowledge of financial products and understanding of operational risks involved in Fixed Income and FX products

- Good knowledge of China processing framework and regulatory environment will be beneficial

- Good judgment, alertness and common sense

- Good analytical, organizational and interpersonal skill

- Comfortable with multi-tasking and able to work under pressure

- Versatile with PC tools and applications, e.g. MS Office, VBA

- Perfectly at ease in a multi-cultural environment

We thank all candidates for showing interest in this role; however, only retained candidates will be contacted.

For more information on our recruitment services, please visit our website www.groomassocies.com