AVP - Trade and Position Management Specialist

Why join us?

If you’re looking for further opportunities to develop your career, take the next step in fulfilling your potential right here at HSBC. Global Debt Markets Derivatives Trade Processing Management is integral to HSBC’s purpose and strategy, playing a valued role in Rates & Credit Derivatives trading life cycle management. Our global team of Middle Office professionals partners with the business to provide day-to-day operational trade support and control of the Fixed Income Derivatives within Global Market Operations, ensuring seamless downstream processing while acting as the primary contacts to internal and external clients on delivering quality service, independent control, operational risk safety, and cost efficiency.

What you’ll do:

• Provide high-quality Trade Validation, Trade Control, and Trade Reconciliation Investigation service for Interest Rates & Credit Derivatives trades (Vanilla & Structured) to the Middle Office Desk Support, Front Office business, and onshore Operations across Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific (APAC) countries as per agreed service agreements.
• Investigate/validate trades on email blotters/recaps, consents, and batch populations from core systems (i.e. Global Calypso, Summit, ICELINK, Treats, and DTP).
• Reconcile Total Return Swap population and update as real-time communication with the drafting team to ensure T-Plus-Zero (T+0) dispatch paper confirmations.
• Ability to resolve issues under tight deadlines as this is a constantly changing environment.
• Provide Regional APAC dedicated support to the trading desks actively across a variety of Fixed Income Derivatives Products, ensuring the risk is properly captured in our internal systems.
• Provide appropriate input in all change initiatives, advising potential impact on current processes, driving change management in coordination with IT to increase automation and controls.
• Assist in building out a global and robust set of controls in line with the Control Framework to ensure the overall success of Middle Office Target Operating Model (TOM) design and implementation.
• Ensure the regulatory framework in place is effective and properly applied to relevant trading activity.
• Understand risks associated with the trade flow, ensuring appropriate controls are implemented, highlighting areas for process improvement and making necessary suggestions to get these controls in place.
• Become the regional Subject Matter Expert for new system and process specifications.
• Act as a point of escalation for all Front Office queries where required.
• Extensive interaction with trading, sales, business management, legal, credit, as well as Operations and IT teams to resolve issues.
• Ability to clearly articulate issues and requirements with trading and sales staff and other support functions.
• Partnership skills are essential as there will be working with other members of the team.
• A strong focus on minimizing Operational Risk is vital.
• Controls (both process and project) are key to meeting respective targets.
• Promptly raise control and process issues with line management, attend weekly controls meetings, and provide Management Information to highlight volumes and outstanding.
• Work closely alongside Technology and Operations to ensure successful delivery, communicating effectively with the business via weekly governance meetings.
• Ensure adherence to Functional Instruction Manual/Controls.
• Constant drive to develop and improve existing controls to promote a strong governance model.
• The successful candidate must demonstrate good communication skills and a solid, logical, and structured approach to projects.
• Implement controls within the wider control framework and ensure that the controls remain usable and relevant.
• Highly professional and articulate with good stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work with people of all levels.
• A strong understanding of process flows, front to back trade life cycle, and product knowledge.
• Improve efficiency through regular review of existing processes and refine amendments where appropriate.
• Ensure high-quality service to the business areas by minimizing risk through effective management of cost and resources.
• Understand, follow, and demonstrate compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations, and procedures.
• Maintain HSBC internal control standards, including the timely implementation of internal and external audit points.
• Ensure adherence to the Group Privacy, Control, and Compliance Policies applicable to their role.
• Adhere to the group requirement that each employee is aware of the Operational Risk scenarios associated with their role.