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Purpose of Role:

Supporting financial derivatives processes for Derivatives Centre of Excellence. The Derivative Team Supervisor is responsible for leading a derivatives group and will be responsible for identifying potential risk or problem situations, conducting impact analysis and resolving the situation

Specific Duties:

• Project management and execution of transition activity
• Prepare and plan workloads to ensure client and internal deadlines are meet
• Identifies and takes action to correct procedural weaknesses
• Communicate to internal departments progress on pending project
• Act as first point of contact for general queries
• Facilitate resolution of outstanding issues and/or exceptions with other departments in respect of the unit’s work (e.g. ensure any aged/material items are resolved in a timely fashion as per corporate standards)
• Monitor document process flows and procedures
• Management of internal/external audit requests through to audit sign off.
• Determine training requirements and development activities of the team along with team members.
• Oversee the mentoring and development of the team through goal and objective setting.
• Maintaining and fostering a team environment
• Point of expertise for complex transaction processing
• Review of reports
• Ensuring communication with appropriate contacts on outstanding items is effective whilst maintaining client relationships.
• Be involved in the take on of new business and modeling for new fund structures where appropriate, including requirement to actively participate in client meetings
• Introduce and contribute new ideas/procedures to further streamline the operational process
• Responsibility for MIS reporting (to offshoring SSB sites and Management)
• Managing employees’ performance

Specific Qualifications / Skills:

• Degree in Accounting or Finance or Business related area (minimum 2.2 honors degree).
• ACCA/CIMA/ACA/CPA qualified or part qualified an advantage.
• Previous management experience preferred
• Communicate effectively and accurately in the English language.
• Strong leadership, management, and organizational skills along with a high degree of numeracy.
• Good working knowledge of software packages, particularly Microsoft Excel,
• good interpersonal skills and an understanding of the rudimentary aspects of the global financial industry would be advantageous.
• Financial derivatives knowledge preferred
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Skilled communicator, both verbal and written
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Good management skills

We offer:

• Employee savings plan
• Premium life insurance package
• VIP medical package
• International operating environment
• Language classes
• Soft skills trainings
• Technical workshops
• Development sessions with a mentor