Overview

The Middle Office Team manages the entire process from trade entry through to settlement, ensuring that all trades are matched, settled, and reconciled in a timely and efficient manner.

Middle Office - Exchange Traded Derivatives & OTC:

The main functions of the ETD & OTC team are identifying the discrepancies between the trading positions, activities, and cash balances (total equity) of the funds and those of its trading counterparties (executing brokers, clearing brokers and exchanges) and investigating them, reconciling those differences (referred to as breaks) themselves, whenever possible. Those 3 main responsibilities (identification of a break, investigation, reconciliation) involve plethora of additional, more detailed activities, such as obtaining information from data vendors (e.g. Bloomberg), acquiring confirmations from various trading desks, querying appropriate prime brokers, requesting securities’ setup by Reference Data team, amending trade data, reminding Trading Desk of positions’ expiry, calculating and verifying appropriate commissions being charged, booking entries in Portfolio Management System, liaising with custodian banks, etc.

Being part of our Middle Office team, your day-to-day tasks will be related, but not limited to:

• Identifying the discrepancies against its trading counterparties (cash, positions, trading activity, total equity)
• Determining the reason for matching failure and suggesting improvement to the process increasing STP rate
• Advising clearing brokers allocations for daily trade flow
• Obtaining information from data vendors (e.g.  Bloomberg),
• Acquiring confirmations from various trading desks,
• Querying appropriate prime brokers,
• Checking that the overnight expiry / first notice notifications have been sent to the relevant trading desk(s)
• Direct contact with client – Hedge Fund
• Serving as a Subject Matter Expert for the process
• Supporting others in completing the duties related to the daily process
• Working closely with other team members to ensure day-to-day tasks associated with customer deliverables are performed in a timely and accurate manner
• Ensure compliance with all internal policies, department guidelines, and external regulation

Requirements:

• Ability to multi-task, work to deadlines and accommodate varying levels of volume and priorities
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize work
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Confident personality, acting as a liaison with Front Office and client/ counterparties – very good customer service skills
• Pro-active and highly motivated – goal orientated and driven to find resolution of problems
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to adapt to change
• Proactive in self-training
• Technical knowledge how financial instruments works - both listed and unlisted would be advantage. Instrument types include, but are not limited to, equities, options, futures, forward contracts, bonds.

Our offer:

• Full time contract of employment
• City Centre locations close to main railway station and flexible working arrangements
• Flexible benefits package, including life and medical insurance, health screening, fitness discount programme, employee assistance program
• Award-winning Wellbeing Program supporting you with your unique health and wellbeing needs
• Pension scheme 
• On-site childcare and a parental buddy programme
• Exciting opportunities for career and global mobility
• Diverse and inclusive environment
• Employee Referral Program
• Recognition programmes
• A multitude of opportunities to get involved in charity projects and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Employer Description:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.