Senior Capital Markets Middle Office Specialist - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Capital Markets Middle Office Specialist...

In this role, you will:

Lead or participate in moderately complex derivatives products within Capital Markets Middle Office
Contribute to large scale planning related to profit and loss generation, attribution and trades
Review, analyze and resolve moderately complex trade issues that require indepth evaluation
Resolve moderately complex trade issues
Lead team to meet functional area and process deliverables
Deliver solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures and compliance requirements
Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
Lead projects and assist senior managers with industry related initiatives
Serve as a mentor for less experienced analysts

Required Qualifications, US:

Required Qualifications, International:

The London Trade Support team is a Cross Asset class team that supports Front Office and other Middle Office staff with Rates/FX/Credit/Repo and Treasury functions.

They work closely with Front Office, Finance and the US Documentation and Operations/Settlements teams on a daily basis.

The role requires making sure all activity is booked in a timely manner, performing trade enrichment where necessary, ready for good settlementand reporting.

The role also includes working closely with the Sales, Finance, Compliance, and Technology, COO Teams and other Operations and global Middle Office teams on a daily basis.

The Middle Office Function is a control function and it is imperative that all team members' work in a controlled manner to manage risk and follow procedure at all times.

We are a function that is very sensitive to Operational Risk and Audit.

They will also work with Technology and other Middle Office teams globally on Front Office projects and process improvements and cover other MO teams (HK/US) if/when required.

(Note:
In addition to these functions team members may be required to carry out other duties to support the Business/Firm)

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Responsibilities:

Provide full trade support cover for all traders/sales teams in a controlled manner by following all MO procedures
Good knowledge on Rates/FX/Credit/Repo and Treasury functions
Have a high level of attention to detail to ensure all trades checked before verified on trade date.
Intraday Risk and P&L reporting, investigation of discrepancies between reported and posted P&L.
Monitoring of daily trading exception reports
Monitoring and resolution of OPICS trades that needs repair
Resolution of trade queries
Assist with front to back reconciliations
Assisting treasury desk in Liquidity Management and Funding
Work closely with Settlements/Payments functions
Liaise with Risk and Product Control Departments to resolve any discrepancies between Middle Office and other reports produced elsewhere
Client Derivatives Documentation coordination
Participation in system upgrades / testing
Team player and must show flexibility for working early morning shifts.
Ability to work with team members and business partners across the bank
Project work/Ad hoc management requests
Enhancement of the control framework around the daily processes.
Maintenance and enhancement of governance documents (e.g. Process flows and procedures).
Act as the link between business requirements and technology solutions.
Fact finding for any Issue and help escalation to Management
Ensure all Initiatives are captured on the teams BOW and is updates at all times

Skills/Experience Required:

Excellent Markitwire experience essential, the ability to build a ticket from scratch and enrich where appropriate.
They must be analytical with strong verbal and written communication skills.
Good understanding of trade lifecycle across the Rates and FX (including NFD Fixings)
An excellent understanding of life cycle knowledge of Cash Securities and OTC products (CDS).
Good Settlement knowledge across DTC, Fed, E/C and Clearstream.
Ability to work across multiple regions.
Must have the experience with systems such as TOMS/OPICS/CALYPSO/GSF/CATALYST/MARKITWIRE
Must have advance Excel and VBA experience
Confident and the ability to work under pressure of a trading floor and deliver on strict deadlines
Good interpersonal and networking skills to help close out issues.

We Value Diversity

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company.

They are accountablefor execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and complianceobligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions.

There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with thebusiness unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.