** This position will be under the Employee Referral Program in Hong Kong.

Within, Operations, Premises & Country COOs (OPC) based in Hong Kong, Capital Market Operations (CMO) teams are responsible to process the transaction activities for Credit, Rates, FX/MM, Securities and Equities for multiple geographies (APAC and EMEA). There are 2 teams under CMO HK in charge of:

• Capital Market Middle Office (CMM)
• Capital Market Back Office (CMB)

Capital Market Middle Office team in HK is around 40 staffs and 6 sub-teams:

•  MO Sales and Client Services: In charge of deals originated by Sales including Trade validation, allocations, MTM reporting and collateral management
• MO IRD/ EIS: In charge of Interest Rate and Equity Derivatives
• MO FX/MM/ Credit: In charge of Foreign Exchange, Money Market and Credits
• MO Post Trade: In charge of the processing activities from FO systems to BO systems
• MO Reconciliation: In charge of the various reconciliation (FO-BO; FO-FO,…)
• MDA: In charge of Market Data activities

This role is within the Capital Markets Rates Middle Office Support teams covering Linear and Structured Rates derivatives.

Key Responsibilities
 

• Provide support to Front Office business lines under Global Markets Division during Asian trading hours
• Ensure transactional integrity across trading applications, including 1st level trade checking
• Perform trade modification, cancellation, and/ or trade event processing (ie: early termination, partial termination, unwind) upon trading approval and report profit and loss impact, if any
• Monitoring, calculation and validation of events affecting the life of a structured product (coupons, Securities transactions, early partial closing, early exercise, maturity, nominal changes, etc.)
• Monitoring, calculation and validation of events affecting the life of a structured product (coupons, early partial closing, early exercise, maturity, nominal changes, etc.)
• Provide an efficient post-trade support by ensuring trade information flows efficiently through deal processing from front office to back office system and front-office to front office system
• Investigate and follow-up of breaks sent by back office, front office and other internal departments.
• Support local business development and volume increase.
• Ad hoc participation and support for projects for continuous improvement and optimization of management processes (specifications, user tests, process drafting) in conjunction with project teams, IT teams and management

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University Degree holder from discipline in Finance, Mathematics or Engineering

Minimum 5-8 years’ experience in Rates Derivatives Middle Office environment is necessary

• Good knowledge of financial products and understanding of the operational risks involved in Rates derivatives including the structured products
• Good analytical, organizational and interpersonal skill
• Comfortable with multi-tasking and able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong attention to details and a self-starter who is highly motivated
• Good judgement, alertness and common sense
• Versatile with PC tools and applications, e.g. MS Office, VBA