Our client, a well-known Financial Services firm in New York, is looking for a Trade Support Specialist to join its team.
Responsibilities:- Support the full trade lifecycle across credit, derivatives, and other financial products
- Process and reconcile trade activity, ensuring accurate and timely settlement
- Review trade details and resolve discrepancies across internal systems, counterparties, and custodians
- Support trade confirmations, settlements, allocations, and position reconciliations
- Enter and maintain trades across products including credit, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, options, futures, and FX forwards
- Work closely with the front office, operations, custodians, counterparties, and other internal teams to resolve trade-related issues
- Monitor settlement activity and follow up on failed or outstanding trades
- Maintain accurate trade and position records across internal systems
- Assist with daily middle office functions, including cash, position, and transaction reconciliations
- Research and resolve breaks between internal records, custodians, counterparties, and other parties
- Support derivative trade processing, including interest rate swaps and other swap transactions
- Support corporate actions, loan activity, and other events impacting credit and other positions
- Prepare and maintain daily and ad hoc operational reports
- Identify process improvements and assist with projects related to trade operations and middle office functions
- Qualifications2–5+ years of trade support, middle office, or investment operations experience within financial services
- Experience supporting interest rate swap (IRS) derivatives, credit, bank debt, leveraged loans, or other financial products strongly preferred
- Understanding of the trade lifecycle, including trade entry, booking, confirmation, settlement, and reconciliation
- Experience with some combination of interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, options, futures, FX forwards, or other derivatives preferred
