Transaction Operations Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Chatham Financial

Chatham Financial

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview:

Our London team is growing and looking to hire a Transaction Operations Specialist into our Global Real Estate Team.

This role will focus in processing trades in our proprietary systems and managing pre and post trade documentation processes for our interest rate and foreign currency hedging services.

The purpose of the role is to continuously improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of our hedging operations as we serve clients with excellence both before and after transactions are executed.

In this role you will:

Coordinate trade documentation with clients and dealer banks from pretrade discussions through trade execution and completion.
Upload transaction details and transaction documents in the transaction management database.
Assist with documentation by coordinating with the internal International Swaps and Derivatives Association experts, attorneys and banks.
Confirm and check economic details of transactions prior to execution and after execution to ensure proper entry.
Assist clients to ensure their funds flow properly on all settlements.
Manage the tracking and reporting of transaction operations, including: outstanding documentation, providing updates and reminders to clients, monitoring the team's transaction trends, new pipeline deals and deal deadlines, etc.
Work closely with the centralized documentation and transaction management team to coordinate compliance requirements such as Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and similar requirements.
Review loan documents and extract key economic data as it pertains to hedge structuring.
Ability to understand the new derivatives regulations and their impact on the operational aspects of hedging; serve as a resource on derivatives regulation from a process perspective.
Assist in training other team members on salient documentation and regulatory issues from an operational perspective.

Your impact:

This is an important role within the team, and individuals who perform excellently will be highly valued team members.

Career development opportunities involve managing cross-team processes, relationships with counterparty banks, and becoming a resident expert in trade operations and derivatives documentation.

Contributors to your success:

Experience in managing and organizing documents, trade operations and/or operational process improvement is preferred.
Skills in organization, proactive initiative, attention to detail, consistent accuracy, strong verbal and written communication are critical.
Capacity to quickly shift from one task to another in order to keep up with the fastpaced working environment.
The ability to create, maintain, and improve highly effective processes is required.
Experience in bank operations or as a paralegal is a plus, but not a requirement.
A degree in finance is not required, but comfort with math is important.

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