Finance Operation & Risk Analyst

This is not an entry-level position. The role is centred around managing the regulated firm's trading book resultant from client trading which includes FX, Equity Indices, commodity and crypto derivatives whereby the firm requires 24-hour coverage. We principally only take proprietary risk in FX, Metals, Equity Indices and auto-hedge all other asset classes. All our clients are smaller institutional derivatives broker-dealers, money managers, hedge funds and IB's and we offer trading in Margin FX, and CFD’s in Indices, Commodities, Metals and finally Digital Assets (Crypto’s).

The candidate will work across the risk and operation functions monitoring and reconciling both client and executing broker trading platforms, middle and back-office systems, before entering the respective streams, which slightly flavoured individual projects to work towards their own stream.

This individual will establish strategies to achieve desired outcomes and implement these strategies. You will often work cross-functionally with internal business and gain access to executive level personnel on a daily basis so you must have strong communication skills, ideas, and extremely detail-oriented as we produce and analyse vast amount of data (with tools we have built). They will work within a blended team of programmers and those with a Finance/Economics domain knowledge background.

Responsibilities

• Produce a regulatory compliance daily reconciliation which measure the Firm’s capital excess over clients monies everyday
• Identify any reconciliation breaks and identify them and resolve the queries via internal partners or external vendors such as Banks and Liquidity Providers
• Maintain the Firm’s financial records by booking summary level data (mainly available from the daily reconciliation and the Firm’s management accounts on a daily basis
• Communicate and implement strategies alongside technical team
• Identify and solve weaknesses within the organisation
• Explore new ways to increase customer or client satisfaction alongside the executive team
• On-board New Clients

Requirements

• At least previous 3 years work experience in relevant sector (Banking Operations, Accounting Operations (within Financial Services), Securities Services operational and accounting role
• BSc in Infosys, Data Analytics or similar technology qualification(s) or BA in Finance or Economics (ideally majoring in Econometrics / Quantitative Analysis or Micro-Economics),
• Highly proficient in MS Excel and regular proficiency in MS Office Suite
• Strong written and verbal communication skills