Analyst, Derivatives Trade Support

MUFG Americas; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

As one of the top financial groups globally, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do.

The Operations division is core to all of MUFG’s business activities. With employees based in London, New York and Hong Kong, the function consists of five pillars: Middle Office, Business Management, Transaction Processing, Clearing and Settlement, and Operational Control. A diverse product range is covered including Equities, FX, Fixed Income, and Derivatives.

The division has a wide range of responsibilities including oversight of the business and our ability to achieve strategic goals via our change program; interface to the business, customer, branch and agent network; managing the processing lifecycle for trades and transactions; providing a shared service/utility function by executing the cash and/or clearing of processed transactions; independent control function ensuring Transaction Processing and Clearing & Settlement Services execute appropriate controls to mitigate regulatory and operational risks.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The opportunity is for an enthusiastic and intelligent individual to join the Middle Office Derivatives Trade Support team within Operations, responsible for providing control and support for multiple trading desks engaged in pricing and trading of vanilla and structured derivative products across multiple asset classes including rates, equity, commodity, credit and FX.

The successful candidate will spend time learning the day-to-day processes, interactions and many relationships managed by the team, helping to provide continuous development ideas and driving through required improvements. The role will focus on supporting flow derivative products, therefore a very strong understanding of the trading infrastructure, pricing inputs and lifecycle management mechanics of these products is critical.

This is a demanding role which requires the candidate to undertake a multitude of disciplines and has existing multi-asset derivatives experience in flow and exotic products.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you will be responsible for Derivatives Trade Support across MUFG’s banking arm and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement. Responsibilities will include:

• Day to day accurate execution of processes, being a direct contributor to re-engineering or building of controls
• Liaising closely with Trading, Sales and Structuring to ensure accurate and timely bookings of trades
• Act as a key liaison between trading, other support functions and the counterparty
• Trade lifecycle management including T0 validation, fixings, coupon calculations, trigger monitoring, break clause and expiry monitoring
• Ensure accuracy of all components of new and existing trade bookings across multiple systems
• Fully understand the controls required to support the business through inter-system reconciliations
• Strict adherence to internal control and escalation protocol
• Maintain a consistent and robust control environment
• Contribute to continuous process improvements
• Development and testing of in-house systems
• Participate in strategic projects across multiple infrastructures.
• Compose and maintain process manuals to ensure accurate and efficient trade support

WORK EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• Middle Office, Trading Assistant or Product Control experience in flow or exotic derivatives

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional / Technical Competencies:

Essential:

• A strong understanding of different asset classes particularly rates, credit and FX derivatives
• Good understanding of the various lifecycle events and associated risks on these products
• Understanding infrastructure knowledge of electronic trading platforms including MarkitWire, TradeWeb, Bloomberg TOMS, ICE Link, etc.
• Strong understanding and experience in clearing mechanics and compression optimization
• Understand the key elements of the front to back process flow including other infrastructure groups i.e. Market Risk, Credit Risk, Finance, Product Control, Legal, Compliance, etc.
• Financial Math knowledge
• Fundamentals of P&L substantiation
• Understanding of the term structure of projection/discount curves and swap pricing
• Appreciation of the Greeks
• Understanding of elements of ISDA documentation
• Familiar with reconciliations and operational controls
• Understanding of the lifecycle event management on both vanilla and structured products
• Understand the cash flows and dynamics of a banking business such as funding requirements and their importance
• Knowledge of collateral processes, Initial Margin, Variation Margin, general CSA familiarity
• Accounting knowledge, ability to identify impacts to P&L and Balance Sheet from trade bookings

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Strong technical ability – marrying exemplary product knowledge with meticulous attention to detail and analytical skills
• Creates a culture of creativity and innovation – identify ways to improve processes and develop creative solutions
• Excellent communication skills – ability to communicate complex issues in clear and concise terms to a broad audience
• Responsible – highly motivated self-starter who takes ownership of a given process, executes it with due diligence and efficiency
• Problem solving and judgement – proactive, thinks ahead, plans for contingencies, anticipates questions from different perspectives, seeks alternative solutions and delineates clear objectives
• Excellent interpersonal skills – team focus, gives evidence of a strong collaborative working ethic
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
• Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• A creative and innovative approach to work together with structured and logical reasoning
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills (Excel, VBA, Access)
• A confident approach, with the ability to provide clear direction to the team
• A strategic approach, with the ability to lead and motivate a team

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.