Join us as a Middle Office Associate
- Take on a new role, where you’ll have responsibility for the validation of complex trades booked by our traders
- You’ll be managing and resolving queries from traders related to their trade bookings and risk positions
- Hone your analytical skills in a team where we’ll take a real investment in your career development
- We're offering this role at associate level
What you'll do
As a Middle Office Associate, you’ll be reviewing complex trade bookings by analysts and maintaining the preparation of daily control reports. We’ll look to you to establish and maintain good relationships with key stakeholders and trader control teams, as you manage the queries from traders, settlement teams and external parties.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing trading and sales support to the markets business
- Maintaining accuracy and completeness of all trade bookings, and performing trade integrity checks
- Validating complex trades booked by the traders
- Making sure that process documentation is updated
- Participating in and executing risk and control related activities
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with experience of trade booking and validation. You’ll have product knowledge of interest rate swaps, basis swaps and cross currency swaps. We’ll also expect you to have strong analytical and root cause analysis skills.
You’ll also need:
- A degree in Finance with good post qualification experience in the financial sector
- Knowledge of loan, deposit, forward rate agreement, foreign exchange and overnight index swaps
- A background of working in settlements, middle office or confirmation teams
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically Excel
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
Hours
45
Job Posting Closing Date:
05/03/2025
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.