Trade Services Associate

• Validate and process trades for a variety of credit derivatives products, including: 1) Single-name CDS (Credit Default Swaps), 2) Index CDS (CDX, iTraxx), 3) CDS Tranches and bespoke baskets, 4)Credit Options (swaptions, options on indices & 6)Credit-linked notes and total return swaps.
• Ensure all trades are accurately booked in front office systems (e.g., Bloomberg, Calypso, Markit Wire) and reconciled with back office records. Review and resolve trade discrepancies, mismatches, and breaks between front office and back office systems.

• Manage and process lifecycle events, including: Credit Events (bankruptcy, failure to pay, restructuring): coordinate with trading, legal, and operations to ensure correct settlement and documentation. facilitate transfer of trades between counterparties, ensuring proper documentation and system updates. Coupon Payments, Roll Dates, and Maturities: monitor and process periodic payments, resets, and contract expires. Amendments, Terminations, and Cancellations: ensure all changes are properly reflected in systems and communicated to stakeholders.

• Oversee electronic and manual confirmation processes via platforms such as Markit Wire, DTCC, and ICE. Ensure timely execution and matching of trade confirmations, escalating outstanding items to traders and counterparties.
• Support daily risk and P&L reporting for credit derivatives portfolios, including Attribution of P&L to market moves, new trades, lifecycle events, and valuation adjustments including Investigation and resolution of breaks in risk and P&L.
• Ensure compliance with global regulatory requirements (Dodd-Frank, EMIR, CFTC, MiFID II) for credit derivatives trading and reporting. Support regulatory reporting (e.g., trade repository submissions, clearing mandates) and respond to regulatory inquiries.
• Monitor adherence to internal policies, limits, and controls. Act as a key point of contact for traders, sales, risk, operations, technology, and compliance teams regarding credit derivatives trade flow and issues.
• Communicate effectively with external counterparties to resolve trade and confirmation issues. Identify and implement process improvements to enhance control, efficiency, and automation in trade processing and lifecycle management.
• Participate in new product launches, system upgrades, and regulatory change projects, providing subject matter expertise on credit derivatives.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Business, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in middle office, trade support, or operations within an investment bank or financial institution.
• Solid understanding of credit derivatives instruments, market conventions, and lifecycle events (credit events, novation’s, assignments, roll dates, etc.).
• Ability to quickly learn new systems and tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective interaction with traders, sales, risk, operations, technology, and external counterparties.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements impacting credit derivatives (Dodd-Frank, EMIR, CFTC, MiFID II).
• Proactive, self-motivated, and able to take ownership of tasks and processes. Strong organizational skills and ability to manage time effectively.

• Must have Direct experience supporting credit derivatives products (e.g., single-name CDS, index CDS, tranches, credit options) is strongly preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, basic formulas); experience with Alteryx, Tableau, VBA, Uipath or Python is a plus.

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