Trade Management Associate

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading liquidity and data solutions specialist. Our purpose is to provide our clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

The Group operates in 63 offices across 28 countries spanning 5,200 employees. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions as a trusted partner.

Role Overview: We are recruiting a high-calibre candidate who will support the front office broking desks of TP ICAP in Operations. The role will lead a team of Trade Management Operations associates, specialised in Post Trade Support and Trade Management on cross products such as Interest Rate Derivative, Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, Credit and/or Exchange Traded Derivatives.

The role is also responsible for team’s daily operational control processes to ensure the timeliness and completeness of the post trade flows from our organisation to clients. The candidate will work closely with the business and front office, to drive and discuss any new initiatives to aid the Brokers in Trade booking and Brokerage calculation, and supports Trade Lifecycle.

Role Responsibilities:

• Trade Process & System Management
• Extensive experience in comprehensive post-trade management, encompassing trade capture, booking, and post-trade reconciliation across a range of asset classes.
• Advanced proficiency in utilising Front, Middle, and Back Office systems, with a demonstrable record of identifying and implementing process enhancements and automation solutions.
• Ensure all Intra-day, intra-week, intra-month or any upcoming trade activities & tasks are well monitored, managed, and evidenced with audit trails & records.
• Manage & support the relevant asset classes, ensuring that our business is supported in timely manner intra day to match trading markets demands.
• Involve in resolving complex issues across multiple trades / products, and conduct post-mortem or post event analysis, as required.
• Monitor all in-house Exception monitoring tools, to ensure that we provide a robust, consistent, and efficient trade management process for our business.
• Team, People & Stakeholder Management
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, enabling the development and maintenance of robust working relationships with the Front Office, Operations team in the region and other key internal stakeholders.
• Define, and provide oversight of the roles and responsibilities within the team, providing guidance and leadership to team members with industry standards of role modelling.
• Experience in managing 2-3 people teams and growing team’s careers
• Strong communicative leader to coach teamwork, resource planning, escalation and retrospective, information and knowledge sharing.
• Risk & Control
• Solid experience to engage with internal & external Audit, Business Risks & Control, Control Declaration & Attestations, understand firm’s risk governance framework
• Strong knowledge in Operations Governance Framework and document with Process Taxonomies to reflect & measure Trade Management deliverables.
• Capacity to identify emerging risks and propose or implement appropriate mitigative controls, functioning as the first line of defence (1LOD) within operational processes.

Experience / Competences:

• Good understanding of Capital Markets Products & Financial Services
• Ability to develop new skills and understanding new technology as required
• Good understanding of Operational Risk
• Good understanding of financial regulatory landscape
• 5 to 7 years or above experience in Senior Trade Management role essential
• Experience in leading a team with good supervisory and leadership skill
• Skilled in Microsoft applications software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc)
• Some knowledge in JIRA or Confluence is a credit