Delta Capita’s Post Trade Services team works with Tier 1 InvestmentBanks and Asset Management clients across all securities and markets. As a Trade Operations Analyst, you will help clients keep their trades accurate and complete, while protecting them against operational and settlement risk.
Key Responsibilities
- Confirm and match trades in a timely manner
- Monitor incoming correspondence to identify and mitigate potential settlement risk
- Resolve settlement issues and track unconfirmed or failing trades to completion
- Investigate and clear custodian breaks
- Perform daily reconciliation of cash and positions
- Work with custodians and prime brokers to improve straight-through processing (STP) rates
- Perform monthly CSDR investigations and process reimbursements as required
- Review derivative trade confirmations to ensure accuracy
- Escalate and track disputes on derivative confirmations with counterparties
- Manage trade amendments, corporate actions and reference data to ensure positions, P&L and exposures are accurately reflected
- Handle equity swap resets, financing adjustments and dividend pass-throughs
- Support the reconciliation of swap valuations and cashflows against counterparty statements
Required experience
- 1-3 years of experience
- Hands-on experience with equity swap or total return swap confirmations and settlements
- Working knowledge of ISDA master agreements and credit support annexes (CSAs)
- Experience using trade matching or confirmation platforms such as DTCC CTM, Markit or Traiana
- Familiarity with corporate action processing and its impact on swap positions
- Experience with exception management and break resolution in a high-volume environment
- Exposure to regulatory reporting obligations
