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Structured Investments Operations – Trading Services Analyst
Corporate Finance
Join our Structured Investment Operations team - support trade execution, improve processes and partner with Sales for clients now!
As a Trading Services Analyst within Structured Investments Operations Team, you will support end-to-end execution across origination support, client onboarding, subscriptions, trade booking, confirmations, settlements, lifecycle management, and fee governance. You’ll contribute to standardization and reporting, help maintain tracking tools, and work with internal partners (Legal, Credit, Confirmations, Trading Assistants, Middle Office, Collateral, Issuance) to resolve queries and breaks.
Job responsibilities
- Support daily trading operations end-to-end, including timely trade capture, reconciliations, and break investigation; escalate issues with clear documentation.
- Assist with preparation of recurring management reporting and team dashboards; contribute ideas for process improvement and standardization.
- Prepare client activity summaries and simple market/desk materials for Sales in a clear, structured format.
- Coordinate with the Onboarding/Transition teams to support “good to trade” counterparty setup across relevant systems.
- Monitor daily subscription bookings to help ensure terms align with approvals and flag exceptions for review.
- Support delivery instruction preparation and coordinate settlements with Operations partners; help drive timely booking and reconciliation.
- Assist with economic and non-economic amendments by coordinating inputs and ensuring appropriate sign-offs are captured.
- Maintain pricing/tracking spreadsheets and help respond to indicative pricing requests and routine client queries (with oversight as needed).
- Support lifecycle event checks (expiries/resets, coupons, fees, cashflows) and assist with tracking/instructing payments and fee events.
- Help investigate operational breaks and partner with Collateral/Operations teams on resolution and escalation paths.
- Draft and maintain SOPs and desk procedures; contribute to control documentation and audit-ready evidence.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience in operations, trading services, middle office, settlements, confirmations, or a related financial services role (or equivalent internship/placement experience).
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through; able to manage multiple priorities with guidance.
- Solid analytical/problem-solving skills; comfortable investigating breaks and documenting outcomes.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative working style.
- Proficiency in Excel (formulas, pivots, basic data cleaning) and Microsoft Office.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Exposure to Structured Investments / Structured Finance (e.g., repacks, fund subscriptions, distribution fee concepts).
- Familiarity with onboarding workflows, affirmations/confirmations, and settlement processes.
- Basic automation/reporting skills (e.g., VBA, Python, SQL) are a plus, not a requirement.
- Experience updating SOPs or supporting process improvement in a growing team.