Derivatives Support Officer – Documentation and Reconciliation

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Derivatives Support Officer – Documentation and Reconciliation (6-Month Contract)

Why Join
As a Trading Operations Specialist at OCBC, you'll be at the heart of our trading operations, ensuring seamless execution and settlement of trades. You'll work closely with our traders, sales teams, and other stakeholders to provide top-notch support and drive business growth. It's a challenging and rewarding role that requires attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication.

How you succeed
The incumbent will be responsible for post execution support for OTC derivative products across FX, Equities derivatives and Rates, mainly focusing on documentation and reconciliation. This is also a control function role requiring the incumbent to work closely with Trading Desks, external counterparties, Settlements and Technology in managing the bank's risk relating to the supported product classes. These combined, the incumbent should be able to contribute significantly in a team setting, apply critical thinking to problem solving and excel under stressful conditions.

What you do

Documentation

• Perform validation on long form ISDA confirmation for FX derivatives and Equities derivatives products received from counterparties against our trade booking in T24 core system
• Liaise with counterparties/internal stakeholders for any trade discrepancies
• Daily update tracker and monitoring of non-receipt of confirmation from counterparties and escalation where applicable
• Update weekly control report to ensure our documentation control aligned with KRI 

Reconciliation and reporting

• Perform inter-system and position reconciliations
• Investigate any recon breaks flagged and escalate to the relevant parties where necessary
• Perform daily validation and enrichment of derivatives reporting for MAS (DTCC) and HKMA (HKTR)

Collateral management

• Reconcile and manage BOS cash collateral with counterparties
• Liaise with risk team in the event of disputes arising from calling / top-ups of collateral

Change Management

• Identify control gaps and work with team to review process efficiency and deliver improvements
• Participate in project deliveries and UAT where nominated by line manager

Ad Hoc

• Manage any ad hoc assignments delegated by line manager
   

Who you are

• Minimum of 2 years in OTC derivative products space in either FX, Rate and/or Equities Derivatives
• Prior experience in documentation preferred
• Experience working with counterparties and internal stakeholders (settlements/traders/bankers)
• Knowledge of Temenos and regulatory reporting platforms preferred
• Degree or Diploma qualified
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills – VBA preferred

Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.